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...officials tell TIME that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld recently set up a Pentagon task force, which meets once a week, to track Haditha and prepare for the eventual release of the investigations' results. But a Pentagon source familiar with the criminal investigation says that contrary to the suggestions of some media reports Wednesday, there have been no conclusions that the Marines deliberately killed unarmed civilians. This source also says that the bodies of those killed at Haditha have not been exhumed, which makes proving murder "very challenging...
...Even U.S. intelligence officials caution that the jubilation in Miami1s Cuban exile community over Castro's imminent demise is "way too premature," says one. "At this point there's no reason to doubt what the Cubans themselves are saying about his condition." Pentagon and U.S. intelligence officials tell TIME they believe that Castro's operation occurred late last week - perhaps on Thursday or Friday - and that the Cuban government would not have announced the temporary transition arrangement unless it was sure that the dictator would pull through. Castro will have a lengthy convalescing period, these officials believe, during which...
...have served in the U.S. military since the War of 1812. They made up as much as 20% of the Union Army in the Civil War, and served in both world wars. These days, more of them complete their initial enlistment -- 80%, compared to 70% for citizens -- saving the Pentagon millions in training costs. More than 20% of the nation's Medal of Honor winners have been non-citizens, and three of the last five chairmen of the Joint Chiefs -- the nation's top military officer -- have been immigrants or the sons of immigrants. Emilio Gonzalez, head...
...four-fold since 9/11, and is now about 2% of the force. There's even discussion of plucking foreign recruits for the U.S. military even before they've left their homeland. Kevin Ryan, a retired Army brigadier general now at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, raised some Pentagon eyebrows last week when he suggested the U.S. Army open a recruiting station in India's capital, Delhi. By tapping into non-citizens eager to wear a U.S. Army uniform, he wrote in a column in the Christian Science Monitor, last year's shortfall of 7,000 Army recruits would...
...government after Gerald Ford lost in 1976, and she has capitalized on every bit of it. Many senior officials at the National Security Council are Rice loyalists who date back to her days there, so the State Department and the White House work closely together and sometimes cut the Pentagon out, according to participants. Until now, she has won generally glowing marks for a record that includes offering the first substantive talks with Iran in 27 years. But some Bush aides were miffed that she embarked on what they sarcastically called the "Condi Rice Show" without a clearly attainable goal...