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...more than ever, that is a brutal assessment. With fresh troops in limited supply and many of Washington's coalition partners bailing out, U.S. commanders have spent months scrambling to train and push forward Iraqi security and police forces who can relieve exhausted U.S. troops, lift the U.S.'s footprint from the occupation and maintain law and order after June 30, when the U.S. plans to turn over sovereignty to a caretaker Iraqi government. The results aren't encouraging. Military officials say that in areas where anti-U.S. violence broke out early this month, only half the local members...
...Federal Government in which work, not money, was his life. He never married. He lives, according to his book, in an "old Sears-catalog house." He has served three Presidents. Until he retired last year, he spent holidays holed up in command centers, worrying about Americans' safety. Every footprint Clarke has left leads back to his obsession with terrorism--not money...
...chief of NATO, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in January that while the insurgents pose little military threat to allied forces, the U.S. and its allies do not have enough troops in Afghanistan to carry out reconstruction tasks, train a new Afghan army and hunt terrorists. The light footprint means fewer American troops have been put at risk, but it has left the U.S.'s Afghan allies even more exposed to danger. After U.S. patrols retreat to their firebases, Afghans say, the Taliban creep back into villages to murder collaborators, usually local policemen. "We are helpless," says Mansour Mehboob...
...invasion. A friendly government nurtured under U.S. tutelage would have had the added advantage of giving the U.S. potentially its most pliable ally at the heart of the Arab world and making Iraq the key base for U.S. military operations throughout the region now that the Pentagon's footprint in Saudi Arabia is being sharply reduced...
After all, it's women--from Mellon to fans like Catherine Zeta-Jones and Halle Berry--who put Jimmy Choo on the map. And with 25 new stores set to open by 2005, the red carpet is not the only place where you will be seeing this footprint. --By Camilla Morton