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...says the U.S. believes that Iran has brokered a partnership between Iraqi Shi'ite militants and Hizballah and facilitated the import of sophisticated weapons that are killing and wounding U.S. and British troops. "It is true that weapons clearly, unambiguously, from Iran have been found in Iraq," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said last week...
Conservative bloggers saluted Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld last week after he announced plans for a "Freedom Walk" on Sept. 11 to honor U.S. troops and veterans as well as victims of the attacks. As postings on the right-wing FREE REPUBLIC debated using bullhorns to silence "protestors wearing peace signs and rainbows," lefty blogs questioned how the Pentagon could stage a show of support for the Iraqi war on the fourth anniversary of Sept. 11. With a Clint Black concert set as the event's grand finale on the Washington Mall, BUZZMACHINE asked, "What's next: line-dancing...
...Baghdad, U.S. commanders emphasized selected statistics to put the best face on the war, telling reporters that the number of suicide car-bomb attacks during the last week of July was the lowest since April. That showed "the tempo is decreasing," said Air Force Brigadier General Donald Alston, the command's spokesman. "This is not an expanding insurgency...
Washington expects more lethal attacks in the coming months as the guerrillas step up their campaign to derail the referendum on the Iraqi constitution in October and a new national election in December. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld flew to Baghdad on July 27 to pressure the country's feuding political leaders to agree on a draft constitution by the Aug. 15 deadline. The constitutional committee has made limited progress on some thorny issues, such as the role of Islam in a new government, but it's at odds on others. Kurds in the north and Shi'ites in the south...
That sentence is the creation of a man named Donald Cammell, who, possibly to his regret, agreed to co-write with Brando a screen treatment, and then a novel, called Fan-Tan, which is about to be published in the latter form (Knopf; 272 pages) a bit more than a year after the death of the once great actor. The book is being blurbed as a "delectable romp" and as the "last surprise from an ever-surprising legend," both claims requiring some parsing...