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...Pentagon officials insist that before U.S. planes attacked the convoy, it had fired surface-to-air missiles at them. But in both cases, there are suspicions that U.S. military targeters may have been deliberately provided with bad intelligence by supporters of a local warlord, Pacha Khan Zadran, who may have been using U.S. firepower to settle scores with his rivals in Paktia, a province he hopes to control as governor. "One competitor may be trying to use our capability for his own benefit," says Rear Admiral John Stufflebeem, deputy director of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
Wiley’s disappearance mystified both investigators, who initially regarded it as a probable suicide, and close relatives, who insist that the professor was at the pinnacle of his career...
...Mike, myth and reality collide at nearly every juncture. People who see his compact, 5-ft. 7 1/2-in. frame in person insist he must be shorter than the beefy man in the photo. The guys at work grumble that all the attention is going to him instead of the six men missing from his firehouse. His wife E.J. demands to know why they have only had a 30-second conversation about Sept. 11. Everyone wants to know how many people the superhero pulled from the towers. The answer never changes: "I saved one person that day, and that...
...John Magaw told the Senate Commerce Committee last Thursday. In his new post, Magaw, formerly with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, takes on an unenviable task: Squaring actual airline security procedures with measures and deadlines set forth by Congress. And while Magaw and others in the Department of Transportation insist those deadlines are well in hand, some reports last week had airline lobbyists urging Congress to push the deadline back 30 days; lobbyists deny any such effort...
...Nonetheless, Magaw and others insist, deadlines will be met - or at the very least, attempts to meet them will be loud and highly publicized...