As it struggles to combat Islamic terror networks, the Bush administration has quietly built an intelligence alliance with Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi, a onetime bitter enemy the U.S. had tried for years to isolate, topple or kill.Update: You should be able to read the story here sometime after 12 am ET.
Critics charge that the partnership with Libya -- like those with regimes in Sudan, Uzbekistan and Egypt -- illustrates how Washington is allowing its war on terrorism to trump its effort to promote democracy and human rights in the Muslim world.
The cooperation includes sending captured anti-Kadafi Libyans home while Libya turns Al Qaeda radicals over to pro-Western regimes.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country, including the Washington Post, USA Today, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer and Christian Science Monitor.
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