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...Euphrates River town of Haditha, 150 miles northwest of Baghdad in the trouble-plagued Anbar province, was only the start of a terrible week for Lima Company of 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines. Two days later, 14 Marines, nine from that outfit, were killed by a triple-strength antitank bomb that flipped their amphibious assault vehicle into the air, igniting the fuel and ammunition inside and incinerating all but one of the occupants. The two attacks brought the death toll for U.S. troops to 29 in the space of a week and served as a grisly reminder of how brutally efficient...
...Baghdad, U.S. commanders emphasized selected statistics to put the best face on the war, telling reporters that the number of suicide car-bomb attacks during the last week of July was the lowest since April. That showed "the tempo is decreasing," said Air Force Brigadier General Donald Alston, the command's spokesman. "This is not an expanding insurgency...
...special Pentagon task force with 150 ordnance experts has been operating since October 2003 to try to outwit the bombers. They have sent $460 million worth of electronic jamming equipment to Iraq to disrupt the remote devices that insurgents use to detonate bombs. Predator drones, robot bomb detectors and dogs have been deployed to sniff out explosives. "Hunter-killer" teams from the task force roam Baghdad in armored vehicles equipped with optical and laser devices to fry any bombs that are found. "This is a pro team of terrorists we're facing in Iraq, and we're working every...
...renounce the right it enjoys under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to enrich uranium for energy purposes. Tehran's action this week ended its year-long voluntary suspension of uranium conversion activities. Its top representative to the IAEA was combative yesterday, saying that on the anniversary of the bomb that destroyed Nagasaki, the U.S. was in "no position whatsoever to preach to anyone about what they should or should not do in their nuclear program...
...rising inflation, a lackluster job market and stagnant salaries, a salaried worker can never think of buying an apartment or a modest house in his lifetime. Millions will have to forgo that dream. The gap between rich and poor is reaching dangerous proportions. It is a ticking time bomb waiting to explode. The government has simply not awakened to the plight of its people. Mehmood Aziz Karachi...