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...Rushing thinks part of his mission is to educate the American public on the reality of war. "War in America has its own branding-it's the American flag, it's that Lee Greenwood song, it's a sailor kissing a woman in Times Square. But Americans need to be aware of the consequences...
...Welcome to life on a Federal Emergency Management Agency USAR team. TIME embedded with this group of 35 firefighters and other rescue professionals from Ohio for its first Rita response mission to glimpse the system at work. As everyone beds down, orange glow sticks form an eerie perimeter in the parking lot around the larger group, which also includes two more USAR teams, from Nevada and Phoenix. Many team members drop glow sticks near their cots to prevent any of the 100 or more total people-or the 30 or so trucks operated by the three teams that just arrived...
...hour after the troops rise at 7 a.m. for a breakfast of MREs and Propel Fortified Water, Reall gives them their mission: a "windshield survey," from their vehicles, of Westlake, a small community northwest of Lake Charles. "We don't want you getting out unless you come across a significantly collapsed structure that looks like it might have somebody in it," Reall says. Primarily, the team will log significant areas of damage. Dr. Randy Marriott gives a medical briefing. In addition to the usual hazards-such as the power lines-rescuers are told to watch out for pit vipers...
...connection to Southeast Asian terrorist groups. A regional security official tells TIME that an Islamic radical currently detained in Malaysia has admitted that he acted as Khan's guide on two occasions in 2001, when the Leeds-born special-education tutor was transiting in Malaysia on a reconnaissance mission for al-Qaeda. The radical says he was ordered by Riduan Isamuddin, the top terror operative better known as Hambali, to "pick [Khan] up, feed him, house him and take care of him," the source says. "He was checking out the places, trying to see how much funding was needed...
Eastman is the director of the Claremont Institute Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, a public-interest law firm in Orange, Calif. whose mission is to “restore the principles of the American Founding to their rightful and preeminent authority in our national life...