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...places, such as Ramadi, Samarra, Baqubah and Baghdad. Now the top U.S. commander in Iraq, Petraeus has spent the past year battling the insurgency in those areas, leading many militants to gather in Mosul again. And so troops like Sergeant John Fleenor, who was seriously wounded by a roadside bomb outside Mosul during his first deployment to Iraq, in 2004, are preparing to take back the city again. "It still smells the same," says the 24-year-old California native. "It still looks the same. I'm sure the people don't like us that much more...
...Norris, the son of an Army chaplain, spent his previous tour in Diyala, but some of his men have had firsthand experience of Mosul. Fleenor earned a Purple Heart for the injuries he sustained here in 2004, and he lost his best friend, Sergeant Frank Hernandez, to a roadside bomb during the same deployment. As he walks the confines of Rabiya, Fleenor still wears a black metal band on his wrist etched with Hernandez's name. Sergeant Tony Carter, 33, who also served in this city during the early days of the war, acknowledges a sense of frustration with...
While many blame government policies for the shortages, a recent incident speaks to the flip side - a distrust of business that has been fueled by Chavez's fiery rhetoric. Early on the morning of Sunday, Feb. 24, a bomb exploded just outside the entrance to the headquarters of Fedecamaras, a leading business chamber that is critical of the government's economic policies. A 44-year-old man, suspected of planting the bomb and in possession of an honorary Metropolitan Police identification card, was killed in the blast. Fedecamaras called on the government to find those responsible, while Interior and Justice...
...sure - Kim Jong Il has not fulfilled any other aspect of the deal he signed last year. It required him, by the end of 2007, to disclose all the details about his entire nuclear program - including what the U.S. believes was a surreptitious effort to develop the bomb by enriching uranium, a program Washington believes the North Koreans ran in addition to the plutonium reactor in Yongbyon. President's Bush's former U.N. ambassador, John Bolton, who has become the most virulent public critic of the deal, said: "Even If North Korea and the State Department, working together, can come...
...party, Hizballah leaders have embraced him as one of its greatest resistance leaders, responsible for turning the group's military wing into the heavily armed crack fighting force it is today. In the West, Mughniyah was better known for his alleged association with the large-scale suicide bomb attacks and kidnappings of foreigners in 1980s Beirut. More recently, Mughniyah reportedly assisted militant groups in the Palestinian territories and in Iraq, ensuring that the impact of his death reverberates far beyond Lebanon's borders. Last week, the Kuwaiti embassy in Beirut was evacuated following an anonymous telephone threat to rocket...