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Bumblebees defy the physics of flight, helicopter pilots like to say - and so it seems do the whirlybirds flying, and too often crashing, in Iraq recently. The crash of a Marine Sea Knight chopper northwest of Baghdad on Wednesday - killing all seven aboard - marks the fourth time a U.S. military helicopter has gone down in Iraq in just more than two weeks (an additional downing was of a U.S. contractor's chopper). Like clockwork, al-Qaeda-linked Sunni insurgents quickly claimed responsibility for Wednesday's downing, which brought to 28 the number of helicopter fatalities in the five crashes...
This Wednesday Nunn and 200 or so Democrats will climb aboard Amtrak's train the Colonial and head for Williamsburg, Va., and a three-day session of the Democratic Leadership Council, a group of moderate young Democrats that he helped found. They might capture the heart of the rehabilitating Democratic Party, and time will soon tell if Sam Nunn can go right on down the line...
...Pentagon's four-stars who serve as overseas combatant commanders are as much diplomats as warriors, and Fallon has proven to be a particularly deft one. After a Navy submarine struck the Japanese fishing boat Ehime Maru in 2001, killing nine aboard the vessel, Bush dispatched the admiral to Tokyo to deliver the U.S. apology to the government and an angry Japanese public. As Vice Chief of Naval Operations in 2002-2003 he impressed Rumsfeld, who was notorious for bullying his flag officers. When Fallon had to fill in for his boss at service chiefs meetings with Rumsfeld, he took...
...well as cruising Indonesian waters, Silolona sails to Malaysia and Burma and accepts private charter. Aside from superb diving, itineraries can include trekking, lavish beach barbecues and strolls through nutmeg plantations. Once you've seen Indonesia this way, climbing aboard a dilapidated interisland ferry can barely be contemplated...
...well as cruising Indonesian waters, Silolona sails to Malaysia and Burma and accepts private charter. Aside from superb diving, itineraries can include trekking, lavish beach barbecues and strolls through nutmeg plantations. Once you've seen Indonesia this way, climbing aboard a dilapidated interisland ferry can barely be contemplated...