But attacks on the senior leadership are swiftly removed (prompting Chinese internet users to refer to senior figures using nicknames or coded language, in an effort to stay ahead of the censors).
Another, say Iranian dissidents, is to pave the way for a more direct attack on the most senior opposition figures.
Another, say dissidents, is to pave the way for a more direct attack on the most senior opposition figures.
Senior Bush administration officials are still wrangling over whether there is evidence to implicate Iraq in the Sept. 11 attack on the United States, senior administration officials said today.
"The Palestinian people are fed up with Saeb Erekat's recitation of the 34 Israeli violations of the various peace agreements," he said in an unusual ad hominem attack on the Palestinians' senior negotiator.
(After the unit came to New York City the day of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center, senior F.B.I. officials, who lost the use of their communications center in Lower Manhattan, used the team's secure link to communicate with F.B.I officials in Washington).
The Bush administration has dispatched dozens of career government employees to underground bunkers outside Washington since Sept. 11 to try to ensure that the government would continue to function in case of a catastrophic nuclear attack on the capital, senior administration officials said today.
Ukraine has launched a bitter attack on the BBC, with senior officials describing a controversial Panorama documentary that claimed racism was rife in the country as an unacceptable provocation.
The assassination of the brigadier, Moinudin Ahmed, was believed to be the first targeted attack on a senior military officer in Islamabad, the Pakistani capital, and also suggested a new tactic in the continuing war between the government and Islamist militants.
Because the explosion took place outside the headquarters of one of the security services, some speculated that it represented an attack on a senior commander at the site.
