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...down the Taliban, a group nurtured by the Pakistan government and military. The decisive repositioning of Pakistan by Musharraf won him a new reputation for deft statesmanship. In the 1971 war with India, the President had led commandos from the Special Services Group (SSG). Notes Nisar Sarwar, a retired colonel who attended the military academy with Musharraf, "The SSG motto is, 'Who Dares, Wins.' And he dares...
...That night the gunship attacked no fewer than six sites.) American sources claim--and Afghan sources deny--that the plane was targeted by antiaircraft fire from inside the compound where a wedding celebration was under way. "Personnel on the AC-130 felt that the weapons were tracking them," said Colonel Roger King, a Pentagon spokesman at Bagram air base, north of Kabul. So the gunship--a flying arsenal loaded with machine guns and a 105-mm howitzer--fired on the compound. Subsequent comments by U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld did little to soften the blow. "There cannot...
...plaintiffs said Citigroup, UBS and Credit Suisse profited from loans to Pretoria between 1985 and 1993 while a U.N. embargo on trade with South Africa was in force. VENEZUELA Coup Fear President Hugo Chávez warned against fresh attempts to topple his government as police arrested a retired colonel who led a march through Caracas demanding Chávez's resignation. MEANWHILE Doomed Love Songs The loudest love songs in the ocean, sung by its largest animals, may soon be drowned out by noise pollution, scientists fear. The songs of male fin and blue whales travel over thousands...
...realizing the potential of our enemy. Everyone is accountable: the news media, the CIA, our military, Congress and the general public. But instead of working as a team, everyone is pointing fingers. How soon we forgot the lessons of Pearl Harbor and became complacent once more. BOYD BARKER COLONEL, U.S.A.F. (RET.) Ogden, Utah...
...ceremony, the three graduates took the military oath of service—Cromwell’s was administered by his ROTC commanding officer; McGrath’s by his grandfather, a retired lieutenant colonel in the Army; and Smith’s by his brother, an officer in the Army...