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...Mitsubishi Pajero off-roader pulled up at the back of Russborough House, a Palladian mansion outside the town of Blessington in County Wicklow, Ireland. At least three men wearing balaclavas and hooded sweatshirts affixed a plank to the back of the vehicle to turn it into a makeshift battering ram, then ran it in reverse up some steps and into one of the great windows of the 250-year-old house, shattering the glass and the shutters behind. Eleven paintings were hanging on the walls of the saloon inside, but the gang settled for five, including two by Rubens - Portrait...
Baghdad's highly general letter didn't take U.S. officials entirely by surprise: "Everybody expected that at some point the Iraqis would come up with a half answer," says a senior State Department official. But it mucked up the White House's carefully calibrated strategy to ram through a beefed-up new U.N. resolution demanding that Saddam accept unfettered inspections anytime, anywhere, and setting a quick trigger for military action in the event that Iraq failed to comply. Instead, Saddam's offer revived uncertainty. France and Russia, two pivotal Security Council members that had begun to shift toward...
...Baghdad's highly general letter didn't take U.S. officials entirely by surprise: "Everybody expected that at some point the Iraqis would come up with a half answer," says a senior State Department official. But it mucked up the White House's carefully calibrated strategy to ram through a beefed-up new U.N. resolution demanding that Saddam accept unfettered inspections anytime, anywhere, and setting a quick trigger for military action in the event that Iraq failed to comply. Instead, Saddam's offer revived uncertainty. France and Russia, two pivotal Security Council members that had begun to shift toward...
Since he returned home in April, Perez has started having all those little talks with his son that he dreamed about in Afghanistan. "Little Ram" is nearly 9 months old now and accustomed to the sound of his dad's voice. "I've told him why I wasn't here for his birth and how it was something that I just had to do as a soldier," Perez says. Someday he'll tell what he did in the Shah-i-Kot Valley to earn the Bronze Star that sits on his dresser. "I'll tell...
...incident comes on the heels of his transfer last year from Thammasat University, Thailand's Yale, to Ram-khamhaeng, the equivalent of Florida State. At the time, Panthongtae complained he didn't like the classes at Thammasat. The Bangkok Post reported he failed four exams at Ramkhamhaeng...