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...Even in the face of Sadr's provocations, going on the offensive in Najaf was always a fateful gamble for Allawi. While the estimated 1,000 lightly armed Mehdi militiamen were no match for more than 3,000 U.S. troops and an undisclosed number of Iraqi personnel deployed there, the political circumstances in which the battle was waged forced the Marines to fight with one hand tied behind their backs: Sadr's men were holed up in and around the Imam Ali Mosque, the holiest shrine in the Shiite Muslim tradition, and any damage to the mosque could provoke...
...monitor Greek airspace. The U.S. Sixth Fleet will patrol the Mediterranean while the Turkish and Italian navies cruise the Aegean and Ionian seas. A 70,000-strong force of Greek police and military--nearly twice the number of troops deployed in Kosovo in 1999--will patrol the country. Security personnel will outnumber athletes 7 to 1. Publicly, the international community has gone out of its way to praise the Greeks for their willingness to accept advice (from Israelis on suicide bombers, the Czechs on chemical weapons, the Russians on Chechen rebels) and for ponying up $1.5 billion--15 times...
...battle over who would actually protect the athletes. The U.S. and Israel, among other nations, insisted that their security forces be armed; the Greeks were offended by the implication that they couldn't be trusted to look after visitors and cited the Greek constitution, which forbids foreign personnel to carry weapons, as the final word on the matter. After months of wrangling, numerous sources say the U.S. and Greece agreed last week that only the Greeks will bear arms. It is a mutually beneficial lie that burnishes Greek pride, but in fact armed U.S. special-forces soldiers...
...Until now, news accounts have only featured government spokesmen or airline personnel who were not actually on the June 29 flight. But in an exclusive interview with TIME, the lead Federal Air Marshal who flew on Flight 327 tells what happened that day. "Bottom line," the FAM says, "there was never a time when my main partner or I felt there was an imminent threat to that airplane or the passengers...
...Iran between October 2000 and February 2001. Sources tell TIME that commission investigators found that Iran has allowed al-Qaeda members to enter and exit the country across the Afghan border since October 2000. Iranian officials issued specific instructions to border guards to facilitate the travel of al-Qaeda personnel in and out of the country, including orders that their passports not be stamped. The report does not, however, offer evidence that Iran was aware of the plans for the 9/11 attacks. The senior official says the report will also say that Iranian officials approached the al-Qaeda leadership after...