Word: colonels
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...days following the Sept. 11 attack, HUPD was in almost daily contact with the FBI, Secret Service, the Bureau of Diplomatic Security and other federal law enforcement agencies. Riley, a former lieutenant colonel of the Massachusetts State Police, is well connected in the local law enforcement community and has been receiving advice on Harvard’s threat profile and vulnerability...
...likely, to hold an airport, raid a terrorist camp, or snatch a top target. But military analysts are bluntly realistic about the challenges facing them. In a sense, the U.S. military is a victim of its own success. The Gulf War, says Charles Dunlap Jr., an Air Force colonel, "was an object lesson to military planners around the globe of the futility of attempting to confront the U.S. symmetrically, that is, with like forces and orthodox tactics." The attacks on the World Trade Center were classic examples of "asymmetric" warfare, using small fanatical teams to inflict maximum psychological damage...
...Colonel Joshua Chamberlain leads his Union troops in a desperate bayonet counterattack, crushing the Rebel attack on Little Round Top. This is one of the many key moments during the fighting at Gettysburg leading to the Northern victory...
...right to fight for our country," says East Timor's last governor, Abilio Soares. According to Indonesian police Brigadier-General Jaki Uly, the former militiamen still have guns. Some parade and drill with Indonesian civil defense units. "Refugees tell us of militia concentrations and training," says the U.N.'s Colonel Rob Holt. Mario Vieira, spokesman for the pro-integration political group Uni Timor Aswain (UNTAS), threatens economic turmoil for the new nation. "We will never give up," he says. Former commander-in-chief Jo?so Tavares believes the recent election has been a setback for peace. "Soon you will probably hear...
...says the bomb--dropped when the B-47 carrying it was hit by an F-86 fighter during an exercise--poses no threat, since it does not contain the capsule required to detonate a nuclear explosion, and is unlikely to spread toxic material. The B-47's pilot, retired Colonel Howard Richardson, supports that account; he tells TIME he did not personally inspect the bomb, but that he was briefed that the capsule was not on board. Others aren't convinced. Retired Colonel Derek Duke, who sparked the recent investigation, claims the bomb was complete and should be located...