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...sprinted after him, only to lose sight of the figure. Seconds later, another man dashed into the darkness; a soldier gave chase and fired a warning shot in the air, but the man disappeared. Sensing that the unit's cover was now blown, Dan ordered one team to blow open the door to the house and begin clearing it. Speaking in Arabic and using a megaphone, Dan instructed any civilians inside to come out. About 10 women and children emerged from the building. Almost immediately, Kalashnikov fire erupted from several surrounding buildings, including the roof of a nearby school...
...Europe would one day become a single homeland. That sweet dream took some more hard knocks last week. First the Swedes - a reasonable people famously in favor of solidarity - resoundingly rejected the euro, which many see as the political and economic linchpin of a European homeland. That blow came as the week began. By the time it ended, Britain, France and Germany had failed to agree on a timetable for handing over authority in Iraq. And France and Germany had stoked anger among smaller states by again thumbing their noses at E.U. rules designed to keep state spending in line...
...Blow was a onetime student of history at Harvard, spending three years in a Ph.D. program and earning a masters degree before leaving to work in journalism...
...ammunition storage point at Khaldiya, on the outskirts of the Sunni-dominated town of Falljuah, just west of Baghdad. The ammo dump is about 1.25 miles long and, according to a U.S. military engineer, contains so much ammunition it would take weapons disposal experts a year to blow it all up. Since the official end of hostilities in May, anti-U.S. forces have been raiding the facility, taking mines, anti-tank rounds and other weapons . The unit currently based there, from the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment's 2nd Squadron, is keeping tanks and armored vehicles on the ridge...
...cited a number of alleged connections between Iraq and al-Qaeda - some of them hotly disputed - and concluded, simply, that "we just don't know." And, if anything, he stuck fast to the suggestion that the invasion of Iraq was a response to 9/11, characterizing it as "a major blow right at the heart of the base, if you will, the geographic base of the terrorists who had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11." Condi Rice made a similar point in her own remarks debunking the notion that Saddam was directly involved, saying...