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...don’t like the idea of Harvard being forced by legislation to do what they should be doing voluntarily,” said Clayman, who said he never joined the armed services because he could not pass the vision test, but worked as a civilian employee for the Navy...
...five-mile Qassam II rocket, using information he gleans from the Internet and technical manuals that "outside sources" smuggle into the Strip. Since Israel uncovered and smashed many of Gaza's munitions workshops last year, his cell crafts its rockets in a variety of small rooms inside civilian apartments scattered through pro-Hamas neighborhoods. Salama is eager to acquire more sophisticated technology, but one effort in that direction nearly killed him. He told me he bought a remote-controlled drone aircraft that could fire missiles from a smuggler who turned out to be an Israeli collaborator. The drone arrived...
...grisly death of four American civilian security contractors in Fallujah - combined with a roadside bomb that killed five U.S. soldiers nearby - has elicited an unusual degree of hand-wringing back in the U.S. So much so that the White House felt compelled to affirm that the killings would not deter the U.S. from staying the course in Iraq. That the White House felt the need to reiterate that assurance in response to the incident was telling in itself: It may have been the bloodiest day of the past three months, but there have been far bloodier days...
...Part of the Fallujah incident's impact came from the fact that most of the media chose to describe the four civilian victims as "contractors," a word that conjured an image of engineers helping to rebuild the shattered country. In reality they were hired guns, former U.S. special forces guys subcontracted by the military to provide security for convoys resupplying a base - testimony, perhaps, to a military personnel shortage in Iraq being addressed through outsourcing...
...real reason for Fallujah's impact, though, came from the gruesome images of four charred bodies dismembered beyond recognition and eventually strung up from a bridge by a euphoric mob. Those pictures revealed a deep-seated hatred of America among a section of Iraq's civilian population. Much was made of the Mogadishu comparison, the famous "Blackhawk Down" incident in which images of locals dancing over the corpse of a U.S. serviceman being dragged through the streets of the Somali capital helped prompt a U.S. withdrawal. And while nobody believes the Fallujah killings will have a similar effect, the echo...