As far-right violence has risen, accusations of responsibility once leveled at Muslims are now directed at white communities and right-wing politics broadly.
Just as controversially, the document also shields the army and security forces from criticism over their dismal human-rights record and specifically from accusations of responsibility for the thousands of people who "disappeared" after being arrested.
He arrived after a rocky visit in Washington, where President Bush used a White House dinner to try to mediate between the Pakistani leader and President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan over their mutual accusations of responsibility for the resurgence of the Taliban, Afghanistan's former rulers.
The first cholera cases appeared near the base, and the bacteria a South Asian strain quickly spread along the river and its network of canals, which Haitians use for bathing, drinking, irrigating crops and washing clothes.Since the outbreak began the UN has tried to dodge accusations of responsibility, saying that the source of the disease is unknowable or unimportant.
The widened scope of the investigation came as both Iran and Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based militant organization financed and armed by Iran, stridently rejected Israeli accusations of responsibility for the plot, in which components of magnetized bombs resembling those used to assassinate Iranian nuclear scientists were discovered in a rented Bangkok house on Tuesday.
"The widened scope of the investigation came as both Iran and Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based militant organization financed and armed by Iran, stridently rejected Israeli accusations of responsibility for the plot, in which components of magnetized bombs resembling those used to assassinate Iranian nuclear scientists were discovered in a rented Bangkok house on Tuesday," Mr. Gladstone writes.
The three companies involved in the current spill — BP, the lease owner; Transocean, which owned the drilling rig; and Halliburton, which performed the critical final sealing operation — have traded accusations of responsibility in a prelude to a likely legal battle over costs.
As for the Bulgarian accusation of Hezbollah responsibility for the Burgas tourist attack, it is likely to prove a mild political embarrassment but not to change the course of history.
These defendants — including 83-year-old Nuon Chea, "Brother No. 2" behind Pol Pot — have denied their complicity, which is based on less concrete accusations of command responsibility.
