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...some ways, though, Jimmy is breaking with tradition. His brother Jack, now 20, has just finished his plebe year at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, where his father, grandfather and great-grandfather went before him. And McCain, the Navy aviator and keen interservice competitor, has been known to crack more than a few jokes at the Marines' expense. McCain says he doesn't read much into Jimmy's decision. "I know that he's aware of his family's service background," he says. "But I think the main motivator was, he had friends who were in the Marine Corps...
...goal is a cease-fire that would halt Israeli air, naval and ground operations in Lebanon. But getting there requires the fulfillment of several preconditions, including an agreement by Lebanon, Israel and - apparently - Syria as well as European nations on the deployment of a NATO intervention force in Lebanese territory along the Israeli-Lebanese border. Unlike the present UNIFIL peacekeeping mission, which in practice does little more than monitor events, the new force would be empowered under Chapter VII of the United Nations charter to intervene against "threats to the peace, breaches of the peace and acts of aggression...
Olmert's fall is certainly steeper than he anticipated when he took the dive. The Israelis calculated that their campaign, which has included strikes on not just Hizballah targets but also Lebanese roads, bridges and runways as well as a naval blockade--plus the explicit threat of worse to come--would cow Hizballah. In addition to maintaining a militia, the group functions as a political party and has a representative in the Lebanese Cabinet. Hizballah represents the traditionally downtrodden Shi'ites of Lebanon, who live mostly in the south and the Dahiya suburb of Beirut, areas Israel has hit hard...
Last Friday there was no real reason to believe that an Israeli warship plying the Mediterranean to enforce the Israeli Defense Force's naval blockade of Lebanon was in danger. Hizballah may have been busy shooting rockets - primarily 122mm Kaytushas with an estimated range of 12 to 17 miles - at towns in northern Israel, but Israel's intelligence agencies had no indication that the militant Shi'ite group had anything in its arsenal that could hit a ship at sea. That all changed when an Iranian-supplied C802 missile slammed into the deck and killed four soldiers. "This...
...With both of the airport's two runways now damaged, and with Israeli gunboats reportedly setting up a naval blockade, there is no way in or out of the country except by land through Syria. Already, fleets of taxis have been heading towards Damascus, evacuating vacationers who fear getting stuck in the country if the crisis continues...