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...Back then the Bush Administration was forced reluctantly into the fray to attempt a mediation. Vice President Cheney had toured Arab capitals in April hoping to drum up support for action against Iraq, and had been told everywhere he went that the Israeli-Palestinian crisis was a far greater, and more immediate threat to regional stability. That forced the Bush Administration to rethink its Middle East policy, first sending Secretary of State Powell out to literally rescue Arafat, and two months later the President called for Arafat's removal as the precursor to a quick-time march to Palestinian statehood...
...official anniversary ceremonies commenced around 1 a.m. this morning with bagpipe and drum processions beginning in each of the five boroughs and ultimately converging at Ground Zero. They will march down the ramp to the floor of the seven story-deep excavation, where they will remain until the beginning of the ceremony at the World Trade Center...
...taking ground inch by inch. In Korea and Vietnam the infantry accounted for only 4% of troops in the theater but more than 80% of those killed in battle. It took Perez nearly three years--along with a threat to quit and a pledge to serve at frigid Fort Drum in upstate New York for up to six years--to prevail. On Valentine's Day of 2000 he reported for training at Fort Benning...
Nearly a month later, on Oct. 7, the day U.S. warplanes began bombing Afghanistan, Perez and 1,000 fellow soldiers left Fort Drum for a Soviet-era air base outside the town of Khanabad, Uzbekistan, 90 miles north of the Afghan frontier. Their mission was simple but dull: Secure the airfield. "God, this can't go on for six months," Perez said to himself during one of his 12-hour shifts patrolling the earthen berms that encircle the base. "Something's got to happen...
During his sold-out concert, it was apparent that the virtuosic guitar, African drum and harmonica player had a very chummy relationship with the club, when the manager kept shouting out to him periodically throughout the show...