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Bush, who has lacked a sense of command in public for some weeks now, looked a little steadier than his aides, but the steely hang-the-guilty determination he reserves for terrorists and other evildoers was missing when it came to discussing the possible leakers in his midst. Asked about the accusations concerning Rove, his political alter ego, Bush said, "Listen, I know of nobody--I don't know of anybody in my Administration who leaked classified information." Bush seemed to emphasize those last two words as if hanging on to a legal life preserver in choppy seas. "If somebody...
Charlie Company had never done a foot patrol in downtown Fallujah before. There's a good reason: Fallujah is the most dangerous place in Iraq for a U.S. soldier to set boots to ground. The 82nd Airborne Division took command of Fallujah and its environs last month and wants to increase its presence inside the town that plays host to Iraq's most active resistance network. Taming the city that detonates an average of three homemade bombs a day against coalition forces is a duty of the 1-505 Parachute Infantry Regiment. On Thursday afternoon, Charlie Company's first platoon...
...President Bashar Assad accused Israel of "trying to terrorize Syria and drag it and the region into other wars." Syrian officials denied that the training camp was active, but Israel says the base was run by Ahmed Jibril's Damascus-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command and had been used by the Tehran-funded Islamic Jihad. A senior Islamic Jihad source in Gaza told TIME that Iranian military officers visited Ein Saheb in early summer, intending to equip it specifically for Islamic Jihad. If the Israeli strike was meant to stop the Palestinian suicide-bombing campaign...
...first clues that bin Laden had much more focused goals were apparent within hours of the Sept. 11 attacks. By all accounts, al Qaeda was a vast and powerful organization, benefiting from sophisticated command structures and substantial financial resources. Despite these capabilities, however, al Qaeda did not press the offensive—a strategic decision, not a tactical blunder. The Sept. 11 attacks were not intended to be an opening salvo in a sustained campaign against the U.S. homeland. They were intended to elicit a military-political response from the United States that would be perceived by the moderate peoples...
McDavitt and Maasdorp are not the only members of the Crimson that have performed well over the last four games. Senior midfielder Liz Andrews continues to score almost on command, with three goals in the last two games...