The Los Angeles Times reported Thursday that six women it interviewed said the Republican actor touched them in a sexual manner without their consent on movie sets and in other settings. The Times said the unwanted fondling and groping allegedly occurred as far back as 1975 and as recently as 2000.

Karl Rove, President Bush's top political adviser, whose possible role in the case has raised questions, was a paid consultant to three of Mr. Ashcroft's campaigns in Missouri, twice for governor and for United States senator
"Karl Rove was once part of John Ashcroft's political strategic team. You have both the actual conflict, and the appearance of conflict. It doesn't matter what's in the deep, dark recesses of their hearts. It stinks."

Mr. Bush himself salvaged Mr. Ashcroft's political career by selecting him as attorney general after Mr. Ashcroft lost his Senate race in 2000 to Mr. Carnahan, who was killed in a plane crash just before the election.

RATHER THAN LOOK at terrorism from a political or religious standpoint, Napoleoni approaches it as an economist, which she was before becoming a writer. By tracing the dollars behind the terror networks, she estimates that the “new economy of terrorism” has now grown to $1.5 trillion (or about 5 percent of the world’s gross domestic product) or more in both illegal and legal transactions. The business of terrorism is now so large and the financial networks supporting it so complex, she says, that if the flow of money to terrorists were suddenly cut off, the drop in liquidity could have a serious impact on the Western economies.
The business of terrorism is now so large and the financial networks supporting it so complex, she says, that if the flow of money to terrorists were suddenly cut off, the drop in liquidity could have a serious impact on the Western economies.

So far, only one person has been put on trial: Zakaria Moussaoui, a Frenchman of Algerian origins. The absence of any more inclusive indictment casts serious doubts on the reliability of the official US version of events.
Al-Qa'eda has since claimed responsibility for a number of attacks, in Yemen, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and elsewhere.
Another point which is central to the official US version of these events concerns the identity of the 19 men and their leaders. The same US security and investigation services which failed to predict the attacks and claimed to have received no specific information about them in advance, only took a few days to present the world with a list of the 19 men involved. They have stuck with this list ever since, neither adding nor removing any names, and without altering the charges against the men in any manner
The idea that Bin Laden is not claiming the attacks for fear of US retaliation is ridiculous, since he doubtless foresaw the terrible reprisal which has since unfolded. Why should he have risked such vengeance, without the satisfaction of telling the world of his deeds?