Word: recruiting
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Moreover, recruiting on the HLS campus will likely make no difference in the number of Harvard students who sign up for the military. Instead, the main effect of the change is in revealing the military’s true priorities of squelching any opposition to its blatant and unjustifiable discrimination. And don’t think the Air Force is in such desperate need of personnel that it must recruit here. All branches of the service are projected to meet their recruiting goals this year, and there is no desperate shortage of military personnel...
...INDICTED. Seattle-based Islamic activist JAMES UJAAMA, 36, for conspiring to recruit, train and provide facilities for al-Qaeda terrorists in the United States; by a federal grand jury in Seattle. Ujaama, who denies any wrongdoing, has alleged that the U.S. government "knew about the events of Sept. 11 prior to the attack on New York, and refused to intervene in lieu of economic and political gains." He is in federal custody at an undisclosed location...
...problems were immense. Although the CIA claims it had penetrated al-Qaeda, Republican Congressman Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, chairman of the House Intelligence Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security, doubts that it ever got anywhere near the top of the organization. "The CIA," he says, "were not able to recruit human assets to penetrate al-Qaeda and the al-Qaeda leadership." Nobody pretends that such an exercise would have been easy. Says a counterterrorism official: "Where are you going to find a person loyal to the U.S. who's willing to eat dung beetles and sleep on the ground...
...absence of men sleeping with the beetles, the CIA had to depend on less reliable allies. The agency attempted to recruit tribal leaders in Afghanistan who might be persuaded to take on bin Laden; contingency plans had been made for the CIA to fly one of its planes to a desert landing strip in Afghanistan if he was ever captured. (Clinton had signed presidential "findings" that were ambiguous on the question of whether bin Laden could be killed in such an attack.) But the tribal groups' loyalty was always in doubt. Despite the occasional abortive raid, they never seemed...
Yang’s wife, Harvard Medical School researcher Christina X. Fu, has successfully used Harvard connections to recruit a number of supporters in an attempt to secure her husband’s release...