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...homeland-security budget is aimed at keeping casualties down; almost all of the $9.5 billion allocated to combat bioterrorism, for instance, goes toward training and equipping local public-health authorities to treat victims and haul out bodies in the event of an attack. The assumption, of course, is that an attack will come. "We need to accept that the possibility of terrorism is a permanent condition for the foreseeable future," Ridge told TIME. "We just have to accept...
...Afghanistan--with a declared success rate of about 85%--no one should be surprised when innocents are hurt or killed. Army general Tommy Franks, who is running the war in Afghanistan, told TIME that civilian casualties "are probably on the low end of any we have ever seen in combat. We obviously could just bomb the heck out of the thing. But that's not the American...
...clutch of terrorists. Over the next six months, the U.S. intends to spend $64 million to train up to 1,600 Georgian soldiers in counterinsurgency. Between 100 and 200 U.S. soldiers and other specialists will start arriving this month. The program will also offer intelligence support and hardware, including combat helicopters and light weapons. "This is about beefing up Georgia's ability to do border security," says a U.S. official...
...something about drug costs, 28 states are offering prescription assistance. Since they can't afford to pick up the tab, most are trying to force pharmaceutical makers to cut costs--so the country is becoming a legal battlefield on which states are locked in hand-to-hand combat with drug companies. A federal judge last week ruled that Maine could force drugmakers to provide discounts of up to 25% for people with incomes up to three times the poverty level. It was the third such defeat the industry had suffered against such programs in three months. That same day Montana...
...exits of the Shah-i-Kot valley, where American troops waited. To the south, battle positions Heather and Ginger were divided by a hill christened the Whale, while to the east, battle position Eve guarded escape routes over the high mountains to Pakistan. But after two days of fierce combat, the al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters were still in place; one American had already been killed...