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...northern oil town, Mosul, that led Turkey to demand that the U.S. agree to the deployment of tens of thousands of Turkish troops in northern Iraq. Failure to reach such an agreement was a significant factor contributing to Turkey's refusal to grant permission for the U.S. to launch a ground invasion from its territory. But Turkey has since been cooperating with the U.S. war effort, and its foreign minister, Abdullah Gul, said Thursday that he had been promised that the Kurdish fighters would leave the city after U.S. reinforcements arrive, "within hours." Turkey has, meanwhile, sent military observers...
What's more, the Iraqi leader has relied heavily on the Fedayeen to launch hit-and-run strikes. The Fedayeen and other Iraqi irregulars have employed deceptive tactics like shooting at allied forces while waving white flags. "The enemy has gone asymmetric on us," complains Lieut. Colonel Bryan McCoy, commander of the 3rd Brigade, 7th Marines. "There's treachery. There are ambushes. It's not straight-up conventional fighting." On Saturday, U.S. Marines recovered the bodies of seven missing U.S. troops who appeared to have been executed and then dumped in shallow graves outside Nasiriyah...
...question asked of al-Qaeda suspects being held overseas is this: What person still at large do you regard as the most likely to harm the U.S. or U.S. interests? It was the frequency with which one name, Adnan G. el-Shukrijumah, popped up that led the FBI to launch an all-out search for the 27-year-old Saudi. "A number of people concurred that he was the individual perceived to be the most dangerous," a Justice Department official said. But sources tell TIME that el-Shukrijumah has long been in the FBI's sights, though investigators only recently...
Last Tuesday, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), under the Federal Department of Education, ruled that Harvard’s policy requiring “supporting information” before it will launch a full investigation in a sexual assault case does not violate Title IX. But OCR’s ruling does not in any way imply that Harvard’s policy is sufficient in dealing with the problem of sexual assault on campus. Harvard’s goal should be to create a model disciplinary procedure, not to be satisfied with one that is just barely legal...
...expert on gender issues spoke about the relationship between masculinity and sexual violence against women last night to launch Take Back the Night Week...