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...IRAQI FORCES: "There are 100,000 troops trained: police, guard, special units, border patrol. There's going to be 125,000 trained by the end of this year...
...first hours of Operation Baton Rouge, as the assault on Samarra was code named, the insurgents would not even have known about the thousands of troops, heavy armor and attack helicopters massing against them. Any column entering the city could easily have been taken for just another patrol or sweep. But as early as Monday, a brigade-size contingent was quietly forming around the city...
HATS OFF FOR PRESENTING THE TRUTH regarding our nation's borders! For more than 30 years, I was a member of the U.S. border patrol, and I have seen the apathy of both political parties regarding illegal immigration. Despite the war against terrorism, an estimated 1.8 million illegal aliens cross Arizona's border yearly. In a quest for votes and cheap labor, political parties and corporations actively promote illegal entries with promises of jobs and social services. The problem cannot be solved until elected leaders use their basic common sense and act. Terrorists can enter just as easily...
...call comes shortly before noon: Insurgents toting AK-47s and RPGs have ambushed a Marine patrol in Ramadi, wounding two soldiers. At Combat Outpost, a dusty, sun-baked base that houses two companies of the 2nd Battalion, Fifth Marine Regiment, the Quick Reaction Force mounts up. Moments later, a convoy of armored Humvees, seven-ton trucks and reinforced high-backed personnel carriers tears into the streets of the long-restive town...
...glance into the reflection-coated windows, and wonder if the security guards behind the bulletproof glass will pick me out as a threatening figure and detain me for further questioning. Since 9-11, nothing is as straightforward for travelers. Even in rural Vermont, the very architecture of the patrol station is there to tell Americans that constant vigilance is the only way to prevent another tragedy. Yet the Canadians, by comparison, have not been terrorized by terror...