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...week after he announced plans for a "Freedom Walk" on Sept. 11 to honor U.S. troops and veterans as well as victims of the attacks. As postings on the right-wing FREE REPUBLIC debated using bullhorns to silence "protestors wearing peace signs and rainbows," lefty blogs questioned how the Pentagon could stage a show of support for the Iraqi war on the fourth anniversary of Sept. 11. With a Clint Black concert set as the event's grand finale on the Washington Mall, BUZZMACHINE asked, "What's next: line-dancing on the graves...
Just how damning are allegations by Congressman Curt Weldon that a secret Pentagon intelligence operation pegged hijacker Mohammed Atta as a threat nearly two years before he led the 9/11 attacks? When Weldon first made the charge in a new book and in a June speech on the House floor, it met with little attention, but perhaps due to the August heat or the approaching fourth anniversary of the attacks, the accusation ignited controversy last week...
...Pentagon insists that the Marines are taking more casualties because their aggressive offensive is forcing the insurgents to fight back. "They're just attacking in response to what we're doing and getting lucky," says a Marine officer on the ground. The Pentagon still believes the insurgents' primary strategy is to direct more of their strikes against Iraqi security forces and civilians than against U.S. troops. But the insurgents, as they proved last week, have never given up their objective of killing Americans when and where they...
...special Pentagon task force with 150 ordnance experts has been operating since October 2003 to try to outwit the bombers. They have sent $460 million worth of electronic jamming equipment to Iraq to disrupt the remote devices that insurgents use to detonate bombs. Predator drones, robot bomb detectors and dogs have been deployed to sniff out explosives. "Hunter-killer" teams from the task force roam Baghdad in armored vehicles equipped with optical and laser devices to fry any bombs that are found. "This is a pro team of terrorists we're facing in Iraq, and we're working every...
...life in the months after the March 2003 invasion, the President vowed that U.S. forces would not withdraw until the rebels were crushed. But U.S. officials now believe that every province does not need to be completely pacified before U.S. troops pull out. In the past three months, the Pentagon has concluded that the war against the insurgents "is not winnable in the near term," says Seth Jones, an Iraq expert at the Rand Corp. Pentagon officers have been reviewing other insurgencies' histories, which indicate that the rebels take, on average, nine years to defeat...