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...weeks ago, for example, the feds held their last major exercise - simulating dirty bomb attacks in Portland, Phoenix and Guam. A VNN anchor played by former TV journalist Forrest Sawyer broke the "news." A real reporter from the Portland Tribune noted that he and the rest of the actual media were kept more than a football field away from the scene...
Tuesday's two-hour convoy - which wound through more than four miles of bullet- and bomb-ridden city decimated by the very worst of the war - celebrated the life of Ramadi's favorite son, Sheik Sattar Abu Risha, the romantic icon of the region's sudden turn against al-Qaeda and Islamic extremists. Though Sattar was killed by an insurgent's bomb on Sept. 13, his "Awakening" movement lives on and his image adorned police cars, armored vehicles and city walls for Tuesday's parade marking the end of 40 days of mourning. Hundreds of Iraqi police officers and soldiers...
There was a lot of trepidation. Ramadi's civilian crowds, who remained out of sight to both the media and the VIPs, were held back for several city blocks from the actual perimeter of the parade for fear of a bomb or other attack. No explosions occurred, but without crowds, the entire event seemed merely a dress rehearsal staged for the benefit of the dignitaries and press, a marching band playing to empty streets. Military officials joked nervously about the possibility of venturing out of the secured area around Government Center to get a sense of the general turnout. American...
...early-to-mid October. "It's a foolish thing," says former umpire Dave Phillips, who worked four World Series during a 32-year major league career that ended after the 2002 season. "Baseball is not meant to be played in those conditions. They're sitting on a time bomb. This could be baseball's worst nightmare...
...soldiers joke darkly when they talk about what was left of Iskandariyah's mayor after he was blown up by a powerful roadside bomb called an EFP earlier this month. They have to. The details are so horrible that one either laughs or cries, or falls into that numb, silent stupor known to combat-hardened troops as the thousand-yard stare. They know EFPs are often aimed at them...