Word: colonels
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...most specialized units are again playing outsize roles. Last week Army special forces, along with troops from the 101st Airborne and 4th Infantry divisions, launched a series of raids on a variety of strongholds north and west of Baghdad, killing dozens in a pro-Saddam movement that one Marine colonel in Baghdad told TIME was becoming "more and more organized and military-like...
...Qaeda members in U.S. custody; one is likely to be Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, thought to be the mastermind of 9/11. It's a safe bet that rather than allow that, the government would take the case out of civilian courts and transfer it to a military tribunal. Air Force Colonel Will Gunn, the acting chief defense counsel for the tribunals, has said he's convinced that "we're going to be able to provide a zealous defense for all detainees brought before trial." Still, it's all but certain that a military court won't allow Moussaoui to call witnesses...
...There was this connection I felt. Unfortunately, there were 50 of us who felt it." -Robin Solod, One of dozens of women who became engaged to U.S. Colonel Kassem Saleh, who fought in Afghanistan, after meeting him through online dating services...
...thousand grunts were never going to block an invasion by the 1.1 million-strong North Korean military. And in an era of precision-guided munitions, officials insist the pullback won't undermine the U.S.-South Korean defense alliance?or send the wrong signal to Pyongyang. Says Lieut. Colonel Steven Boylan, a spokesman for U.S. forces in South Korea: "Everything we are doing is to enhance the alliance, not diminish it." With anti-American sentiment still strong in South Korea, the U.S. decision might seem like a boon to President Roh Moo Hyun; in his younger days, he supported the withdrawal...
...tribal leaders left for their meeting with the Governor. "How are the Americans behaving here," I asked the colonel. While he spoke in Russian about the widespread belief that GIs steal the money they find during house to house searches, another person in the room - a Kurd, usually the most pro-American of Iraqis, was complaining of the same in Arabic. A new stereotype, that the GIs are on the take, has emerged here. Then it was our turn...