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...while others - like this one just outside Kyrgyzstan's capital of Bishkek - are substantial. The steppes of central Asia - a no-go zone for the U.S. military until last year - could become home to U.S. troops for years to come. Minutes after Rumsfeld arrived here last Friday, an impatient airman demanded to know how long U.S. troops would be in Kyrgyzstan. "As long as is necessary," Rumsfeld shot back...
That month he enrolled in Airman Flight School in Norman, Okla. He was a weak student, according to Dale Davis, director of operations. The problem could have been a language barrier. Moussaoui spoke fair English, Davis said, but some of the school's instructors had problems communicating with him. He left the school after a heart-to-heart with Davis about his lack of progress. Investigators have noted that both Atta and Al-Shehhi visited Airman, though they didn't enroll...
...Japanese war veterans, many of whom have endured vilification at home, the movie is digging up painful memories. "Pearl Harbor was so long ago," says Yuzo Fujita, 84, a onetime Zero pilot. "Why must they keep bringing it up?" Another former airman puts it this way: "When it comes to the war, we are always seen as bad. But bad things were committed on all sides. Think of all the people they killed in Hiroshima. I fear young people will see the movie and believe that's the way it happened...
Although last Sunday's midair crash cost President Jiang an airman and a plane, it may nonetheless have been a windfall for the Chinese leader. Pilloried by hawkish critics for having responded too limply to NATO's erroneous bombing of China's Belgrade embassy two years ago, this week Jiang set out to burnish his prestige by acting as if he had Washington over a barrel...
TIME.com: The U.S. appears to be giving diplomacy time to resolve the spy plane standoff. The tone of official statements appears to have been toned down somewhat, and Secretary of State Colin Powell's statement of regret over the death of the Chinese airman looks like a further effort to cool tensions. How is the U.S. trying to move the diplomatic process forward...