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During FM’s visit, roommate Lionel F. Rivera ’04 makes three unsuccessful attempts to smuggle Jobbins’ donuts out the door, “strapped like a bomb,” as he puts it, to his chest. Jobbins has a pile of boxes in his room that his roommates affectionately call “the compound,” a reference to Palestinian leader Arafat’s compound, recently destroyed by the Israeli government. “[The Israeli-Palestinian conflict] is serious shit,” Jobbins says...
...Villepin's request--attended a Security Council session that was to debate terrorism. The meeting was relatively uneventful, though Joschka Fischer, Germany's Foreign Minister, said a military strike against Iraq would make fighting terrorism more difficult. But at the press conference afterward, de Villepin dropped his bomb. France, he said, thought that "nothing justifies envisaging military action." It was the plainest signal possible that so long as the inspectors were getting cooperation from Saddam, Paris would not support...
...also infrastructure targets like roads, bridges and power plants, there was less certainty among some of the soldiers who carried out the attacks. "We want to avoid collateral damage, but that is the most difficult thing," said a combat pilot aboard the U.S.S. Constellation after returning from a bombing run. "When we drop that bomb, we know that someone is dying...
That would soon change. The Tomahawks reached their targets shortly after 5 a.m., exploding with a force that shook the city. They were followed by four bunker-buster smart bombs from the F117s. After U.S. commanders debriefed their pilots and assessed the bomb damage Thursday morning, Pentagon officials knew the mission had shocked the Iraqi leadership, but Saddam's fate remained unknown. "Everybody expected it to begin with 'shock and awe' and figured Saddam would see it coming," says a senior Defense official. "But by doing it this way, we were able to preserve some tactical surprise...
Despite a two-run bomb from sophomore Ian Wallace and a solo shot from Klimkiewicz, the Crimson lost the home-run hitting contest, 3-2, and the game...