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...charges of cronyism weren't bad enough, the inside story of the government's decision to award a controversial no-bid contract to Halliburton is taking on overtones of even uglier "isms": racism and sexism. Whistle-blower Bunnatine (Bunny) Greenhouse, the most senior civilian contracting official in the Army Corps of Engineers, is battling the Army's attempt to demote her after she objected in writing not just to, but literally on approval documents for the up to $7 billion contract awarded to a Halliburton subsidiary in March 2003 for the repair of Iraq's oil wells...
...battle to dislodge an estimated 3,000-4,000 insurgents from an urban area will necessarily be bloody, and involve civilian casualties - even if much of the civilian population has already fled. Although U.S. and Iraqi forces have acted to minimize the negative publicity of such casualties by seizing control of the city's main hospital overnight on Monday - previously a source of many televised claims that coalition forces had inflicted civilian casualties - many Iraqi and international actors invested in the transition process remain concerned that a frontal assault on Fallujah could have the opposite political effect...
...restore control over Fallujah, and their battlefield plans will be designed to make the operation quick and decisive. The last time the Marines were sent into Fallujah, in April, they were pulled back as U.S. officials felt the heat of a political backlash spurred by the images of civilian casualties beamed around the world by al-Jazeera cameramen inside the city. This time, however, the political echelon in Washington and Baghdad is unlikely to hit the brakes. It's a go-for-broke strategy, not least because any retreat now would simply empower and embolden the insurgents...
...TIME: Some say the military is too independent and powerful. Should it be placed under the Defense Ministry to ensure greater civilian control? YUDHOYONO: This is a time of political transition. At the right time, the military has to be placed under the Defense Ministry to ensure that politicians are the policymakers. But we have to make sure that a civilian Defense Minister knows how to separate military and political matters. [In the interim,] I will make sure that communication and coordination are solid between the Defense Minister and the military, and that it is the Defense Minister who determines...
...interviews took place on Sept. 20, and the completed study went to the Lancet on Oct. 1 and on to peer review - a fast turnaround for scientific work. Roberts concedes that he wanted the study released before the U.S. election and had hoped to prompt candidate commitments to protect civilian lives: "That is what we'd most like, and that was our goal in getting this out." In Iraq, meanwhile, it was business at usual: at least seven people died in a Baghdad car-bomb blast on Saturday, and the hostage ranks continued to swell...