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...careful to distinguish who is shooting before it fires back. Since the election, no Hamas targets have been attacked, but last week an Israeli missile killed two Islamic Jihad militants riding in an ice cream truck in Gaza, along with three bystanders, including a child and a teenager. Says Col. Yohanan Tzoreff, a senior researcher at the Institute for Counter Terrorism near Tel Aviv, "If Fatah continues its terrorist attacks against us, we know that it isn't trying to destroy Israel but to destroy the Hamas regime...
...opposed to the amendment.“Harvard fully respects the Supreme Court’s decision, but we continue to believe that the Solomon Amendment is a coercive law intended to enforce a corrosive policy,” said the spokesman, John D. Longbrake.Department of Defense spokeswoman Lt. Col. Ellen G. Krenke wrote in an e-mail yesterday that in enforcing the Solomon Amendment, the Pentagon is “not asking for special treatment or seeking to compel or suppress free speech.”“We simply want to be able to compete...
...According to Rennell, the biggest risks of being at such high altitudes are cerebral and pulmonary adena, which cause pressure in the brain and lungs. If a climber shows symptoms he must descend in altitude immediately, which is difficult on the steep slopes of the “North Col,” Rennell said. Osborne said above 7,000 meters, the brain becomes “hypoxic,” or deprived of oxygen, making concentrating, breathing and sleeping difficult. Operating climbing gear at this state becomes difficult for inexperienced climbers. When asked what advice he would give students...
...Col. Barry Johnson, a spokesman for the U.S. military in Baghdad, said U.S. and Iraqi authorities had confirmation on only about 365 deaths, but did not deny that more deaths were possible because of the narrow requirements the U.S. and Iraqi government have for reporting them. ?They have additional reports that have insufficient details to properly substantiate...
...interviews will haunt viewers long after they have left the theaters: Nguyet Anh Duong, a refugee of the Vietnam War, who now designs bombs for the U.S. Army; and Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, Ret., a life-long soldier and Pentagon staffer who became so disillusioned with the conduct of the current Iraq War that she retired from the military and has forbidden her sons from enlisting...