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...Aboard. To accommodate the hordes headed to D.C. for Inauguration Day, Amtrak will add extra trains and cars on its Northeast Corridor route. Maryland and Virginia commuter-train routes are also being called into service: MARC, a Baltimore-to-D.C. commuter line, will provide reservations-only service on Jan. 20, with schedules coordinated with Inaugural activities. VRE, with trains that connect Fredricksburg, Va., and D.C., will maintain its regular schedule but require reservations. (See 10 things to do in Washington...
...with trains, known as the Frecciarossa, traveling as fast as 217 m.p.h. The journey between Milan and Bologna takes just over an hour; from Milan to Rome, it's three and a half hours; and from Milan to Venice, 2 hr. 45 min. If you book your ticket before Jan. 13, you get a 10% discount...
Iraq began a new chapter at midnight on New Year's Day, amid the sporadic flares of small fireworks and the crackle of gunfire. Jan. 1 marks the formal implementation of the Iraqi-U.S. Security Agreement that was labored over for months by officials from the two countries. Rituals for the media and the Iraqi public gave national sovereignty a new face on Thursday morning: a formal celebration marked the handover of Baghdad's Green Zone, the center of the U.S.-aided Iraqi government for the past 5 1/2 years, to Iraqi control. And poles bearing the Iraqi flag...
...soldiers say they have already been cooperating with their Iraqi counterparts. "I think there is going to be zero difference between what we do now and Jan. 1 and beyond," said Lieut. Colonel John Vermeesch just before the end of 2008. Vermeesch commands some 880 U.S. combat troops spread across five joint Iraqi-U.S. bases in northwest Baghdad. He is one of the battalion commanders in the 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, a 4,000-troop force that arrived in Baghdad in mid-October to start a 12-month tour. They say they started complying with...
...Iraqi army commanders Vermeesch visited recently had been involved in a shoot-out with police forces just 10 months before. Some army commanders are not shy about complaining about the police. "I am very sure that the Iraqi Army is equipped and ready to handle the situation after Jan. 1," said another commander, Col. Abbas al-Moussawi. "We're not sure MOI [Ministry of the Interior, a reference to Iraqi police] forces are ready...