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...conflict. But now that negotiations between the LRA and Uganda are underway in nearby southern Sudan, those millions are waiting on word that Uganda's child soldiers and displaced civilians can finally go home. Despite shaky relations all around and the death Saturday of LRA's third-in-command Raska Lukwiya in a government attack, the talks are widely seen as the country's best chance at peace in decades...
...Though the plot has all the hallmarks of an al-Qaeda operation, U.S. officials cautioned that there isn't yet evidence of a direct link between the plotters and the organization's top leaders. "We're not convinced this particular operation is connected to the al-Qaeda chain of command," Charles Allen, Chief of Intelligence for the Department of Homeland Security, told reporters on Thursday afternoon. As for whether the attack was being timed for the fifth anniversary of Sept. 11, Allen said he thought the attack would simply be launched when it was ready. "I am a long-standing...
Buyers are taking their time, leery of overpaying and taking on too much debt in a rising-interest-rate environment. Some sellers figure they're lucky to be getting out. Hewitt Hymas, a Navy commander reassigned from San Diego to Annapolis, Md., just sold his four-bedroom home for $476,000 (which he bought for $280,000 in 2002). It wasn't easy. Hymas relandscaped the yard, spent $7,000 on kitchen upgrades and eventually dropped the price by $18,000. "People around us still live with a heyday mentality," he says. "They got used to the boom and were...
...pronouncements from the White House and 10 Downing Street, but it's more like conventional wisdom among those engaged on the ground. In fact, hours after the contents of the valedictory diplomatic cable from outgoing British ambassador William Patey were leaked to the media, the head of U.S. Central Command, General John Abizaid, told the Senate that sectarian violence was at an all-time high, and if not stopped, would lead to civil war. Even the deployment of some 50,000 Iraqi troops and police in the streets of Baghdad two months ago has not stopped the steady rise...
...investigations into the Haditha incident - where an IED killed one Marine and his unit then killed 24 Iraqi civilians in the hours afterwards - are essentially complete. One, written by Army Maj. Gen. Eldon Bargewell, deals with the reporting up the Marine chain of command after the incident, and will reportedly inflame already touchy relations between the Marines and the Army by seriously criticizing the Marine officers for not initially looking into the incident; many Marines feel the Army is judging them by a higher standard than it judges itself. The other deals with whether criminal charges could be brought...