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...Smith trial, the defense will point to statements made by Army Col. Thomas Pappas, the senior military intelligence officer at Abu Ghraib, who has said he had approval from Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, a former commandant of Guantanamo who helped establish interrogation rules at Abu Ghraib. According to Pappas, Miller approved the use of dogs to extract information from detainees. In a statement given under oath on Jan. 25 after he was granted immunity from prosecution, Col. Pappas said he personally approved the use of dogs for a handful of prisoners. That approval, he said, came just days before...
...Rice's first stop in Egypt is a closed-door session with Maj. Gen. Omar Suleiman, head of Egyptian intelligence and an key Arab interlocutor with the Palestinians. Soon after the radical group Hamas stunned the world by winning an upset victory in the Jan. 26, Palestinian parliamentary elections, Sulieman added his voice to those of U.S., European and United Nations leaders in calling on Hamas to recognize Israel, abandon violence and commit to talks aimed at establishing a peaceful Palestinian state...
...planned to discuss with them ways of dealing with the pilots’ letter. The newspaper detailed that Dershowitz was scheduled to meet, among others, with Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, top Foreign Ministry officials, and Israeli public relations officials. Efforts were also made to schedule meetings with IAF Commander Maj. Gen. Dan Halutz and other commanders...
...around 5.30 a.m., residents of Baqubah, about 35 miles north of Baghdad, began waking to the sound of explosions. A convoy of U.S. troops from the 1st Infantry Division had been ambushed by insurgents nearby, leaving two American soldiers dead, according to Maj. Debra Stewart,a spokeswoman for the Division which is headquartered nearby in Saddam Hussein's hometown, Tikrit. At the same time, insurgents laid siege to the home of Diyala province's police chief, and torched...
...late afternoon, calm had been restored in most of the target cities. Maj. Stewart said the 1stID had regained control of the Blue Dome - although from Tikrit, Division commanders seemed unclear about whether all police stations were now in coalition hands...