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...there fewer heroes in the Iraq war than in previous wars? That's the message the Pentagon is sending, say critics, by not awarding today's soldiers nearly as many of the nation's highest military honors. Three and a half years of combat in Iraq, for example, have produced only two winners of the Medal of Honor, the country's highest military award for bravery in combat. There were, by contrast, 464 Medals of Honor handed out during America's involvement in World War II, which lasted the same amount of time. If the government had been as stingy...
...employee benefits—including health plans and pensions—rose by 12 percent this year, after a 3 percent rise the previous year, as a result of interest rate changes. Post-retirement health costs skyrocketed 30 percent this year after dropping 28 percent last year. To combat the rise in benefit costs, the University will implement “a multi-year health strategy...with several objectives including improved cost efficiency and expanded health plan choices for employees,” according to the report. BUDGETING FOR BUILDINGNew building costs made up 49 percent of all capital expenditures...
...Baghdad reporter Michael Ware’s description. Ware reported to Paula Zahn Now last week, “By any academic’s definition, this is civil war, organized conflict by two elements within a country to pursue the political center, with elements of ethnic cleansing, militia combat, family against family, neighbor against neighbor, with a degree of organization and coordination...
...Life With Al Qaeda, A Spy's Story, the Moroccan-born author (who uses Nasiri as a pseudonym) says he spent nearly seven years leading a dangerous double life as an informer for European intelligence services on the activities of his brothers-in-jihad, including vivid detail of combat and explosives training in Afghan camps, and his clandestine work within al-Qaeda's European cells. His anecdotes are compelling; his insight into the motives and commitment of extremists chilling; his resentment palpable at being discarded by Western spy agencies once they decided his value was spent...
...greater sharing of the burden, and to give ground commanders full authority to deploy troops as they see fit, rather than be required to refer back to defense ministries in Europe's capitals. But the caveats that keep Italian, French, German and Spanish troops out of the heavy combat zones in the south of the country were not significantly relaxed. The Poles offered up an additional 1,000 troops toward the 2,500 reserve force that NATO military staff consider crucial to prosecute the war, and the French were among the allies promising to deploy troops to trouble spots...