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...Sullivan wouldn’t comment on the timetable for Cusworth’s return after the game, though from the indications given by the seven-footer after Monday’s practice, it would appear that Cusworth would be unlikely to start on Saturday against Lehigh. LETHAL WEAPON Freshman guard Corey Hassan got off to a quick start for BU, nailing a three to start the game before connecting on a jumper and knocking down all three free throws for eight quick points to give the Terriers an 11-4 lead just over four minutes in. Hassan finished...
...kill hundreds of insurgents, but there is no end of replacements. U.S. commanders believe that as many as 20,000 fighters are in the field on any given day, a figure that has remained constant for almost two years. Many insurgent groups have become more tactically sophisticated and more lethal, and around 2,000 attacks are launched each month. Training facilities are dotted across Iraq; videos obtained by TIME show classes in infantry techniques and handling weapons. Abu Baqr, a former emir, or commander, of a nationalist militia in Baghdad who was recently released from a U.S. military prison...
...troops playing a crucial role in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from the U.S.'s most notorious playground. From Nellis Air Force Base, outside Las Vegas, Rogers controls a Predator, a flimsy drone that has been transformed from a spy plane into one of the wars' most lethal weapons. Predators played a key part in catching Saddam Hussein and have killed al-Qaeda suspects in Pakistan and Yemen. In September a Predator tracked 11 insurgents who had attacked a U.S. base in Iraq, then killed them as they fled...
...reason that officials in northeastern China decided not to announce that a 50-mile slick of toxic benzene was headed downriver toward the city of Harbin earlier this month was their fear of damaging tourism and investment in the region, sources tell TIME. Instead, as the potentially lethal spill approached the metropolis of 10 million people, the city said in an online statement that the entire water supply was being shut down for "water main maintenance and repair...
...become less murky after Dec. 15, when Iraqis are scheduled to elect their first full parliament. If the vote proceeds honestly and peacefully, the Bush Administration can claim Iraq has taken a giant step toward political self-sufficiency-a precondition, White House officials have said, for battling the increasingly lethal insurrection. The success of elections will have a direct effect on last week's debate: How many U.S. troops should be in Iraq and for how long? Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Fox News Sunday that after the elections, the U.S. hopes to drop troop levels from...