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...outside the city and did nothing to rid the place of anti-American rebels. U.S. military commanders complained that the political deal simply gave him breathing room to rebuild his battered forces and consolidate himself as the chief Shi'ite resistance leader. There was a growing sense at the Pentagon that such a strategy had only delayed a day of reckoning...
Hurricane Charley stages a surprise; the Pentagon begins to calculate the length of the postwar; Ralph Nader's homeless problem; Peggy Noonan's homecoming...
With U.S. combat deaths approaching 600 since major combat operations ended in Iraq nearly 16 months ago (in contrast to only 109 before the fall of Baghdad), the Pentagon has decided it's time to get some help in figuring out how long the postwar fighting might last. The Army quietly released a contract announcement last week that it was seeking to calculate "the possible intensity and duration of a guerrilla war in Iraq." The Army wants to award a contract to the Dupuy Institute, a Washington-area think tank, by the end of the month. The institute will...
...appear before the committee, at least in closed session, an official said. Also during last week?s Senate hearings on intelligence reform, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld - who had strenuously opposed Scowcroft?s recommendations, which would strip key intelligence agencies and their multi-billion dollar budgets out of the Pentagon - acknowledged when pressed by Senator Edward Kennedy that he?d been briefed on the Scowcroft report and could think of no reason why it remains classified. The White House declined several opportunities to comment this week, and a Scowcroft aide said he was traveling and could not be reached...
...showdown continues at Najaf, Moqtada's Baghdad representative has in fact been participating in the national conference. Not only that; according to the FT he's also co-sponsoring an "opposition" list of delegates for the interim national assembly in alliance with an unlikely bedfellow - the former Pentagon favorite Ahmed Chalabi, who has reacted to his fall from favor in Washington (and his legal troubles with the new government in Baghdad) by seeking to reinvent himself as a champion of the Shiite masses...