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...what they do serves my country," he said. But he grew uncomfortable when the discussion turned to the victims of suicide bombings: scores of innocent Iraqis have died in terrorist attacks perpetrated by men whom al-Tamimi openly boasts to have trained. "I have always tried to avoid civilian casualties," he says. "I always try to attack the American military." It's an implausible claim. According to the "Rand Terrorism Chronology," which tracks suicide bombings in Iraq, attacks on U.S. military targets are relatively rare, but there have been more than 250 assaults on civilian targets in 2005 alone, killing...
...gauge as both sides distort casualty figures. A government source, who wished to remain anonymous because his estimate deviates from the official line, thinks at least half the attackers were killed. He put the losses among police and troops at more than 30, with about the same number of civilian deaths. Those who saw Putin that day say he was furious at news of the assault. He issued crisp instructions that anyone bearing arms in the city who resisted arrest should be "eliminated." But the Nalchik raid has forced the Kremlin to confront the fact that it is fighting...
...confronts concerns over Iran's nuclear program. The U.S. and key European countries want the IAEA'S 35-member board to refer Iran to the UN Security Council for action over its failure, over a decade, to disclose various aspects of a program Tehran insists is for civilian energy purposes, but which Western governments suspect is a covert bomb program. But many members of the IAEA board are reluctant to foment a confrontation over the issue...
...makes the University appear ignorant: those at the Law School should know better than most of us that an important principle of a stable democracy is civilian control of the military. The militarys leadership did not decide to limit the expression of gays. It was the President. Harvard looks foolish for attacking the wrong target...
According to the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, homosexuals are prohibited from serving openly in any of the armed services. In the civilian world, this type of discrimination has long been considered unconstitutional; only in the military does this archaic and divisive attitude toward the gay community persist as a matter of protocol. The Pentagon’s refusal to alter its position concerning the service of homosexuals in the military is outrageous...