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...allowing him to hold two offices?a tricky constitutional maneuver in Pakistan. Plenty of Pakistanis agree that Musharraf might be necessary at a time of domestic extremism and ongoing peace talks with India. (Staunch ally Washington certainly does.) "Pakistan has never seen the successful transfer of power from one civilian government to another," says Dr. Rifaat Hussain, a professor at Islamabad's Quaid-i-Azam University. "If Musharraf can guide the government to its first completed term in 2007, it will be a significant achievement...
...Last fall San Diego State launched an interdisciplinary master's degree in homeland security, attracting students from nursing, criminal justice and political science. The University of Southern California is offering an online master's in system safety and security, for which students examine such problems as how to defend civilian airplanes against surface-to-air missiles. Engineering schools are adding classes on potential cyberattacks on the electrical grid. And George Washington University's medical school now requires its students to take an emergency-preparedness course...
...Iraqi in a Fallujah mosque: It's amazing that we don't hear more stories like that. I hold no ill will toward the Marine, because I cannot begin to fathom what he and others endure in Iraq every day-car bombs, roadside rockets, booby-trapped bodies and Iraqi civilians who act like your friend one day and shoot at you the next. To all the armchair generals who criticize what happened at the mosque, I say grab a gun and try living a Marine's life for a few weeks and see how you would react. The U.S. holds...
...nothing else, Specialist Wilson's grilling of Rumsfeld may finally force the military's civilian bosses to heed the concerns of soldiers like Captain Mark Chung, 37, an Army reservist who served in Iraq for nine months this year. Chung survived two roadside bomb attacks on his armored humvee; the second bomb exploded on the passenger side directly under his seat. "The up-armored humvee was the only thing that saved my life," he says. After returning from Iraq last month, Chung visited the Pentagon to implore officials to send more armored humvees to Iraq. He never...
...Without serious coverage of the issue of civilian casualties, Iraq may be harder to understand for those following it through the U.S. media. But it?s an important element of the story that we ignore at our peril...