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...members of Task Force 20, the military's special-operations unit charged with nabbing high-value targets in Iraq, quietly descended on an airstrip near Mosul last Wednesday--backed by MC-130 combat Talon planes, modified humvees and so-called little-bird attack helicopters--to prepare for a potential assault. A battalion from the 101st Airborne Division, based in Sinjar, was on alert to seal off escape routes leading to the Syrian border. But that day Saddam was not to be found. "We shoot a lot of dry holes. It's the law of averages," says a Pentagon official...
...shootings took place in the Riverside neighborhood. And the adjacent Cambridgeport area saw 11 street robberies and six cases of aggravated assault from May to mid-July, according to a report from the Cambridge Police Department (CPD) presented at the council meeting...
...Cambridge Police Department (CPD) officer responded to a report of an assault at the R.F. Kennedy School on Spring Street. The victim stated that, while playing basketball, he was approached by six white males swinging baseball bats. An altercation ensued and the victim said he was stabbed three times with a small knife after being pushed to the ground...
...gunmen picking off soldiers one by one. As of today car bombs are in the anti-American forces arsenal. Whether this signals a shift in people or simply a change in tactics is unclear; U.S. commanders say they have reports of foreign terrorists entering the country, but this assault may turn out to be homegrown. Still, the deployment of car bombs, or that most sanguine of weapons the suicide bomber, as was used by the terrorists of Ansar al Islam in northern Iraq earlier this year, could be the next step in the campaign against U.S. forces. "I think that...
Crimson President Amit R. Paley ’04 said the newspaper has requested incident reports for three years about matters ranging from racial profiling to sexual assault. The University has denied those requests, contending that since Harvard is a private institution, HUPD is not subject to the public records laws...