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...forces still often find themselves operating in enemy territory--even in the heart of Baghdad. For many, the dangers are mounting. Despite their efforts to stand up Iraqi forces and lower the profile of foreign troops, U.S. commanders have yet to stem the death toll: this month U.S. personnel are dying at three times the rate they were in February...
...Bush in Beijing in 1974-75. There was much to be done. Bush was still head of the U.S. Liaison Office in 1975 when Henry Kissinger brought the first proposal to the Chinese (which I drafted) for active cooperation against Soviet weapons of mass destruction using Chinese territory and personnel and U.S. technology and management. It worked...
...Atta visited the INS in May 2001 looking for a visa extension for one of his companions, but ended up with the INS discovering Atta himself had improperly received an eight-month visa, until Sept. 8, 2001, that was then rolled back to July 9. INS personnel who dealt with the Atta group then could not identify one of the men with him. But the ?Terrorist Travel? staff monograph released yesterday said that, based on other evidence, the commission believes that fellow hijacker Ziad Jarrah ?may have been? with Atta...
...Khan delivered tantalizing leads, and last month law-enforcement officials hit pay dirt. On July 24, an armored personnel carrier pulled up near a two-story corner home in the Pakistani town of Gujrat. It had been inhabited by three al-Qaeda members wanted by the U.S. for their roles in the African embassy bombings in 1998, men who had been fingered by Khan. Inside the besieged house--"The whole night there was shooting," said a neighbor--the three al-Qaeda men made futile efforts to burn a cache of computer discs in their possession, but a relentless barrage...
...Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 2 million patients a year acquire infections while in the hospital, many of them carried on the unwashed hands of health-care workers. Although hand washing significantly reduces infection rates, the CDC notes that less than half of hospital personnel do this as they move from patient to patient. To make sure you're not handed an infection, remind all staff members (your doctor as well) to wash their hands before they touch you. "Visitors should also wash their hands, both when they come into the room and before they leave...