IBRA delays proving too costly

IBRA delays proving too costly

James Castle
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Jakarta

One of the most frequently heard excuses for not selling IBRA
assets or privatizing Indonesia's state-owned enterprises is that
weak economic conditions for the offering prices will be "too
low".

2. Azzam -- What is terrorism and what is not?

2 X 28 36pt Bodoni

Freedom fighters, terrorists:
What's the difference?

Dr. Azzam Tamimi
Director, Institute of Islamic Political Thought, London

Those who claim to be experts on terrorism are simply liars
and/or fortune hunters.

It is not true that you can study terrorism or observe it. You
simply cannot talk academically about a rather subjective concept
that is usually employed to camouflage complex phenomena the
study of which does not, at the given time and location, seem to
interest the users of the term "terrorism".

3. War -- Truth as the first casualty of war
2 X 28 36pt Bodoni

When war changes the rules,
the first casualty is truth

Peter Preston
Guardian News Service
London

So it begins. The flashes of light in the night sky, the
distant explosions, the appearance of a "relentless" George Bush
talking command and control. We slowly remember what war is like;
but we need to remember, too, that truth is the first casualty of
conflict, that the briefers, bureaucrats and politicians who act
as reasonably "reliable sources" in peace are operating now under
different house rules. That they have become wholly unreliable by
design.