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...overheated rhetoric aside, this much is clear: The Sadr City bombings and their grim fallout again exposed the limitations of the joint U.S.-Iraqi Baghdad security plan, dubbed Operation Forward Together, that began last summer. The plan brought more than 7,200 additional U.S. troops into the Iraqi capital, but it has failed to slow the sectarian killings and kidnappings that are threatening to drag Iraq into a civil war. In the past two weeks alone, Baghdad has seen the most audacious kidnapping (150 men taken captive from a government office in broad daylight) and the deadliest bombing (more than...
...Both Anglican and Catholic officials noted a particular warm rapport between Benedict and Williams during a Thursday morning meeting and subsequent lunch at the papal apartment. The two leaders issued a joint statement acknowledging "serious obstacles" to closer communion between the Churches - a clear reference to the Anglican openness to gays and women in the clergy. Williams, who was accompanied by his wife and two children, timed his trip to mark the 40th anniversary of a historic meeting between Archbishop Michael Ramsey and Pope Paul VI. On that first formal encounter between the heads of the two Churches since England...
...route distance between the Eliot Street location and the Soldiers Field Road branch at 2.26 miles.) Regardless, having an IHOP in the Square will be much more convenient, Hunter said. But Rose said she hopes IHOP doesn’t put Leo’s Place, the American food joint on nearby JFK Street, out of business. “The only competition I see is the hung-over dining hall chicken, the one stuffed with cheese and broccoli,” said Catriona C. Duncan...
...Donald Rumsfeld has been given his orders; the President has announced a government-wide review of Iraq policy; Henry Kissinger, a man who has some experience with ill-conceived military operations, has declared Iraq a failure; Tom Ricks, the Washington Post's peerless Pentagon reporter, this morning disclosed the Joint Chiefs' three-option approach for what to do next (no big surprises there: stay put, add troops, get out); and in a few weeks, the commission headed by former Secretary of State James Baker and former Indiana Democrat Lee Hamilton, will brief the President and then the public...
...Donald Rumsfeld has been given his orders; the President has announced a government-wide review of Iraq policy; Henry Kissinger, a man who has some experience with ill-conceived military operations, has declared Iraq a failure; Tom Ricks, the Washington Post's peerless Pentagon reporter, this morning disclosed the Joint Chiefs' three-option approach for what to do next (no big surprises there: stay put, add troops, get out); and in a few weeks, the commission headed by former Secretary of State James Baker and former Indiana Democrat Lee Hamilton will brief the President and then the public...