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...military that it was in their interest not to put up a fight. "As we had access to leaders, we spoke with them and said, 'You need to make a choice here,'" says U.S. Army Brigadier General Vincent Brooks, chief spokesman for the U.S. Central Command in Doha, Qatar. "Those that made the choices will have an opportunity to live another day. Those who did not did not survive the operations...
...Qatar, home to the freewheeling Al Jazeera satellite television network as well as the forward headquarters of the U.S. Central Command, voters approved a new constitution last month that creates a parliament and enshrines the right of women to stand for election. In Bahrain, significant reforms including elections last year have eased sectarian conflict between ruling Sunni Muslims and the majority Shiites. Last September, Morocco held parliamentary elections widely regarded as the first free, fair, and transparent balloting in the country's history...
...past few months, and those are obviously no longer needed. Also, the changed landscape of the region means that a facility of the scale of Prince Sultan airbase, from which it was possible to direct thousands of simultaneous air operations, is no longer required. The duplicate facility built in Qatar for the current conflict, which is more state-of-the-art and also more portable, is more than adequate for the new situation...
...Steven Willard ’05 is sick of girls saying they can’t hook up with him because of a boyfriend serving in Iraq. “My girlfriend in Qatar doesn’t mind,” he complains?...
While posted to Moscow in the mid-'90s, Donnelly covered Russia's gory conflict in Chechnya. Today she's the aviation correspondent for TIME, assigned to the relative calm of the U.S. military's nerve center in Qatar. "This was as close as I wanted to get to the battlefield now that I'm a wife and a mom of two," she says. Her dispatches on the air war and wry take on Centcom briefings have proved invaluable to TIME's coverage...