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...Getting Gen. John Abizaid, the Pentagon's top Middle East commander, to admit at a Thursday hearing that it's possible Iraq "could move toward a civil war" wasn't the only coup Senate Democrats scored. The same day they also managed to plant another political time bomb, which could explode in the next three or four months over George Bush's conduct of the war, by winning approval for a new National Intelligence Estimate focusing on Iraq's growing sectarian violence...
...military legal system, it is the commanding general at Camp Pendleton, California, where the unit that is the focus of the Haditha investigations is based, who will decide whether or not to bring criminal charges. But the case may be delayed slightly since one general, Lt. Gen. John Sattler, is being replaced by Lt. Gen. James Mattis and Sattler may not have enough time before he leaves to make a decision on what to charge, if anything, so Mattis would have to start fresh. Both are highly respected officers, and more important, both have served tours in Iraq...
...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...
...Kaytusha rockets by Iran and Syria; Israel even knows the location of some of its weapons storage facilities. But the longer-range arsenal is still a matter of much speculation, even at the highest levels of government and the military. In recent government hearings, military intelligence official Brig. Gen. Yossi Baidatz said Hizballah had some 100 rockets that could travel between 24 and 42 miles, presumably referring to Iranian Fajr 3 and Fajr 5 missiles. Another senior intelligence official tells TIME that Hizballah "probably" has one or two dozen rockets that can travel up to 150 km, or 93 miles...
...committee would like to have their proposals “in shape before school starts.” Menand said that the committee has already met three times since its first introductory meeting with administrators in June. Last summer, a similar five-person committee met to structure the Gen Ed requirements for the College. That report proposed that students take three courses in each of the three areas of the humanities, science and technology and the study of society. It also advised that optional interdisciplinary Gen Ed courses be offered, but the proposal was never thoroughly discussed by the Faculty...