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Ogunwole had opened the tournament by winning three consecutive matches, beginning with a 2-0, 1-0 win over Iran’s Hajinia Osbo Askari...
...dawn the next day, the Wolf Pack had reached Objective Cougar, the Imam al-Shafi Mosque that insurgent leaders used as a meeting point and command center. It sat midway down 3rd Platoon's southward advance through Fallujah's Askari district, home to many former Iraqi military officers. It had been long evacuated and been heavily fortified in anticipation of a U.S. invasion, but commanders had received reports that as many as 150 foreign fighters were ensconced in the area; the battle figured to be tough. Footage taken by an aerial drone earlier in the week showed that the area...
...Musharraf's future has ramifications beyond Pakistan's borders. He is the linchpin in the U.S.'s war against terrorism. If he goes, Pakistan's position as frontline state could be undermined. But the referendum could backfire, says political scientist Hasan Askari Rizvi: "Suddenly people are thinking, how different is he really?" Some fear Musharraf may also try to consolidate his power further by formalizing the role of the National Security Council, a military-dominated body that would undercut Parliament and hold decision-making authority over all major national issues...
...recent days, press accounts have implied a lack of loyalty and patriotic zeal in the wake of war. Arab Americans respond that opinions may be divided -- as they are throughout the American public -- but loyalties are not. "Where else is my loyalty going to be?" asks Kay al-Askari, the northern New Jersey representative of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. "We've been here 35 years." Brenda Murad, a second-generation Lebanese American, agrees. "I am not dealing with the conflict as an Arab American," she says. "I just see it as very wrong. When we went into Panama...
...mile-long column was hardly festive. At the village of Mupa, they had to put up a rickety bridge across a swollen river; farther south, they drove past a treasure trove of Soviet-made equipment, including recently developed AGS-17 automatic grenade launchers. After five weeks of "Operation Askari," the South Africans reported knocking out 25 Soviet-made tanks, giving chase to two Cuban battalions, and killing 400 enemy troops. Their own casualties were 21 dead, more than in any other campaign since 1975. Said Lieut. Ian Gleeson: "It was an extended operation and a hard slog...