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...official word for the Vietnam involvement). The idea is for the troops to patrol the streets and keep people alive - the civilian population, if possible, but first and foremost themselves. Since there?s no draft, and thus no readily renewable supply of manpower, the goal is to keep U.S. combat deaths down while scoring the maximum number of enemy kills. "It?s peer pressure," says Marine Sean Huze, "group killing." In basic training, the Infantrymen were taught to take this war personally. "You're not just killing another soldier... you're killing a family," says Herold Noel...
...Zawahiri devoted a substantial portion of the anniversary tape to praising al-Qaeda's "blessed union" with the radical Algerian Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) and singled France out as its target. Zawahiri pledged the new partnership would become "a bone in the throats of the American and French crusaders," and urged supporters to target Arab states - including Algeria - that have battled terrorism alongside Washington, London, and Paris. "Crush the pillars of the crusader alliance" Zawahiri intoned, "and strike fear in the hearts of the traitors and apostate sons of France...
...website called VampireFreaks.com said he liked to play the Internet-based video game "Super Columbine Massacre," which simulates the mass shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Col. It also shows at least 50 photos of him holding a rifle, and donning a black trench coat and combat boots, the same as Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris during the Littleton, Col., incident...
...think he lacks a winning formula. In a TIME poll last month, 63% of those surveyed disapproved of the President's handling of the Iraq war, and the figure was 51% for the war on terrorism. What's more, 54% thought the Iraq engagement was hurting U.S. efforts to combat terrorism...
...focus of Tuesday's speech will be on the nature of the enemy we face - how they think, what they've said, and why we should take them seriously," the official said. "The President will also talk about the state of the enemy, and what we are doing to combat...