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...Several weeks after the shooting, the Australian military flew in a group of reporters for a controlled visit to Tarin Kowt; on Oct. 5 it was announced that Australian and Afghan troops had captured a notorious Taliban bomb-maker. The publicity may have shored up Australians' enthusiasm for the Afghanistan mission, but it has yet to penetrate the mud-walled forts of Oruzgan's tribal chiefs, whose support is now needed more urgently than ever...
...their checkpoints and camps in Georgia, preparing to withdraw from buffer zones near the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. A deal brokered by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and monitored by E.U. peacekeepers set an Oct. 10 deadline for Russia to return the zones to Georgia. Despite a bomb in South Ossetia's capital that threatened to disrupt the withdrawal, Russian forces continued as planned...
...What followed was Obama's sharpest answer of the night. "This is the guy who sang, 'Bomb, Bomb Iran,' " he said of McCain. "He called for the annihilation of North Korea ... That's not what I call walking softly...
Subsequent bombings of government buildings, banks and police departments lead the FBI to declare the Weathermen a domestic terrorist group. Only one explosion - a pipe bomb placed on a San Francisco Police Department window ledge in February 1970 - resulted in death. It was never conclusively attributed to the group...
...answered the call. “Today was their present,” Pizzotti added. Harvard came out of the gates rolling against Lafayette, scoring 24 of its 27 points in the first half. Great pocket protection from the line allowed Pizzotti to complete passes like a 67 yard bomb to sophomore wideout Chris Lorditch early in the second quarter. Pizzotti credited this recent success to his offensive line. “The offensive line did an unbelievable job; they don’t get enough credit ever,” Pizzotti said. In fact, the starting linemen...