en-uk Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:37:29 GMT Copyright 2007 Times Newspapers Ltd. custserv@timesonline.co.uk http://www.timesonline.co.uk Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:32:23 GMT Newspapers 144 21 http://www.timesonline.co.uk http://images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,116979,00.gif Ben Macintyre Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-10-28T08:24:10Z An unquiet ghost stalks the White House Situation Room as Barack Obama, increasingly Hamlet-like, ponders what to do in Afghanistan: it is the spectre of the Vietnam War, America’s enduring historical hang-up. Ben Macintyre Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:01:08 GMT 2009-10-29T02:41:28Z For many years stories of CIA efforts to bump off Fidel Castro were the only growth industry in Cuba. The 638 supposed attempts included such unlikely plots as sending the Cuban leader exploding cigars, packing his scuba-diving suit with lethal fungus, spraying a TV studio with LSD while he was broadcasting and filling a large mollusc with high explosive in the hope that Castro would pick it up while swimming underwater and blow himself to pieces. Ben Macintyre Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-10-21T09:20:35Z The strangest interview I have conducted — and the most moving — took place in a hot Georgia swamp with a young mother named Panbanisha, who spent much of the time scratching herself and trying to stick a twig in my ear. We discussed marshmallows and fruit, swatted mosquitoes and played hide-and-seek for hours. Ben Macintyre Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-10-22T12:18:09Z Among all the promises of change that swept Barack Obama to power, none seemed more simple, symbolic or easier to implement than his pledge to permit openly gay men and women to serve in America’s Armed Forces. Ben Macintyre Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-10-14T10:42:03Z There is a saying in Afghanistan: “You cannot buy an Afghan; you can only rent him.”