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Some of the initial results worried Odierno: U.S. casualties in May and June???227 killed?were so high that even he thought he might have miscalculated. But over the summer, the landscape began to change. In Baghdad, GIs moved out of their relatively safe megabases on the outskirts and into smaller bases in the city's violent neighborhoods?to live, form networks and walk patrols. Following Saddam's model, Odierno split his troops between Baghdad and the belt towns on a 3-to-2 basis: 3 soldiers inside the capital for every 2 outside the city...
...charged on June??1 with plotting to blow up New York City's John F. Kennedy Airport hoped to outdo the attacks of 9/11, according to the complaint filed against them. "Anytime you hit [a] Kennedy, it is the most hurtful thing to the United States," one suspect allegedly told an informant. But the men were amateurs, and the worst their plans might have achieved was not an apocalypse but a fire in a remote part of the airport. Thankfully, authorities foiled the plot before it could get smarter...
...early as June??2003, the CIA told Bush in a briefing that he faced a "classic insurgency" in Iraq. But the White House didn't fully trust the CIA, and on June 30, Rumsfeld told reporters, "I guess the reason I don't use the term guerrilla war is that it isn't ... anything like a guerrilla war or an organized resistance." The opposition, he claimed, was composed of "looters, criminals, remnants of the Baathist regime" and a few foreign fighters. Indeed, Rumsfeld could claim progress in finding and capturing most of the 55 top members of Saddam's regime...
Married. Roscoe Pound, 60, Dean of Harvard Law School since 1916, member of the Wickersham Law Enforcement Commission (which expired with June??? see p. 13); and Mrs. James E. Miller, 49, widow of Dean Pound's old friend Dr. James E. Miller, organizer of Government hospitals for War veterans. Honeymoon: to Europe. Dean Pound's first wife, who was Grace Gerard of Columbus, Neb., died...
...simple, hometown ceremony. But next June???! Next June, President Coolidge, the great man of the present hour, will visit Marion and make a speech. He will help Marion and the Nation dedicate the Harding sepulchre, even as President Roosevelt entered Ohio in September, 1907, to make a speech at Canton and dedicate what was then "Ohio's Shrine", the sepulchre of William McKinley...