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Under the top-gun command of Air Force Brigadier General Donald Wurster, head of all special operations in the Pacific, Army special forces, backed by commandos from other services, were setting up quarters last week for a 6- to 12-month stay at a camp on Mindanao, just a boat ride across the narrow strait from Basilan. Philippine counterparts are already taking delivery of U.S. equipment, including a C-130 cargo plane and eight Huey helicopters...
...language added to the 2002 defense bill suggesting the Navy finish the vessels and put them out to sea as a morale booster for troops. The clause reads that the sea service should consider buying vessels "under construction in a U.S. shipyard" for leisure use, housing or a command ship. Though it doesn't mention the ships in Pascagoula, they're the only ones that fit the bill. The Secretary of the Navy last week said he would consider the idea, but it's "probably a stretch...
...Americans, including one from the CIA, have been killed by enemy fire (17 have died in accidents, including one who may have been a suicide). But the potential for mayhem remains huge and, by some Army assessments, growing as Americans confront what General Tommy Franks, head of U.S. Central Command, estimates to be about a dozen ever shifting pockets of resistance. Those dangers are exacerbated as American forces are drawn into local feuds and warlord ambitions. As the double-bang plot against the embassy illustrates, it is the multiplicity of perils and the long list of suspects that make Afghanistan...
Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2002 Stalin saw Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevski as the potential leader of a military coup. What's more, Tukhachevski publicly accused Stalin of losing the Polish campaign of 1920. Stripped of his office and appointed to command the obscure Volzhski military district in Kuibyshev, Tukhachevski was doomed ? but Stalin never acted openly. On May 13, 1937, he invited Tukhachevski to the Kremlin. The Party, said Stalin, still had confidence in the Marshal, and wished him success in his new command. On May 22, they arrested Tukhachevski in Kuibyshev and brought him to Moscow to be shot...
...Force Base--from which the Afghan war is being directed--prompting new fears about security at a time when more small, lightly regulated aircraft are filling the skies. Bishop's close friend Emerson Favreau told TIME that days before the crash Bishop asked him how to locate the command center inside MacDill. Investigators think he originally targeted the base...