Word: colonels
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...local contractor tells Col. Walker that he offered jobs to the refugees on the mesa but had no takers. The Colonel's face tightens. "Well, if they don't want to work, I guess I can't make 'em," he scowls. "Okay, let's saddle up!" he yells to his team...
...Colonel is here to sort out why none of the camp's men are working on the bridge, earning money to help their families. He quickly learns that the contractor is hiring his own relatives and cronies for the job, and that when the men from the camp applied to work there they were turned away. He looks over the anxious pleading faces of the ragged famished men, and then he turns to his constant companion, Staff Sgt, Groce, who already has notepad and pencil ready...
...under fire. The firebase has been repeatedly rocketed. Laments Afghan Interior Ministry intelligence chief Niamatullah Jalili: "Al-Qaeda is using this town, and there's nothing we can do." U.S. forces are also frustrated at their inability to strike at the al-Qaeda operatives they know are inside. Says Colonel Roger King, spokesman for the U.S. military in Afghanistan: "It's not like they're wearing uniforms and staying at a base that we can watch." --By Michael Ware/Angurada, with reporting by Mark Thompson/Washington
...percent are against it. Many have complained that on two previous occasions during his mayoralty, Luzhkov rejected the initiative of bringing back Dzerzhinsky’s statue. Rumors have swirled that he is now endorsing the scheme to curry favor with Russian President Vladimir V. Putin, an ex-KGB colonel...
...Then there's the X factor, the personal magnetism that has drawn hordes of acolytes, from secretaries to corporate bigwigs. "I don't just listen to him," says Lieut. Colonel Ahmad Saefudin, who leads an army cavalry division in Bandung. "I follow him." Chairul Tanjung, chairman of Bank Mega, one of the country's 10 largest banks, puts it differently, but the enthusiasm is the same: "Our generation has few people like him. The country needs someone who can help reduce the gap between business and morality...