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...after Hurricane Gustav battered this coastal region, along Highway 57 from Houma, cars dodged downed power lines, felled oak trees, and an occasional dead turtle. "You LOOT, we SHOOT," read one wooden sign that'd been attached to one home's front door. Du Lac, not far from Cocodrie where Gustav made landfall, is so sparse it doesn't feel like much of a town. It's a set of trailers and single-level homes, often built on stilts, some rising some 10, 20, even 30 feet into the air above marshes...
...report of activity in that area, though it is common in the case of cross border attacks launched by the U.S. that neither the American nor Pakistani government identify them as such, seeking to give Pakistan political coverage. The United States' rules of engagement in the region allow for "hot pursuit" across the border if militants fire upon foreign forces. In one such incident, 11 Pakistani soldiers died in June when U.S. aircraft bombed a border post. American troops on the Afghan side of the border claimed that militants were firing at them from the border post, and that they...
...Monday that employees of certain key businesses and institutions would be allowed to return to the city as soon as today to begin preparing for returning evacuees. Among the essential details that must be dealt with: replenishing meat and vegetable supplies at supermarkets, as well as fuel at the region's gasoline stations. Gustav prompted the largest evacuation in the state's history. Now, many fear a repeat of the headache-inducing "contra flow" - the technocratic term that refers to both lanes of roads and highways being used to direct traffic in the same direction...
...White House is trying not to take the scheduling slight to heart, even though a satellite address had once seemed a necessity only if Bush had to stay in the Gulf region to monitor the storm's aftermath. Perino said Bush still has good reason to stay put in Washington: behind Gustav, other storms are lurking. "We have Tropical Storm Hanna, and Ike that's following behind that, and possibly another one behind that," Perino said at the briefing today. "And so it's appropriate that the President be able to be here at the White House...
...decision had already been made by the government and we cannot change it," says Sheikh Mohammad Mahmood al Natah, the spokesperson for the Awakening Council. The hand-over, originally scheduled for June, took place on Monday, making Anbar the 11th of Iraq's 18 provinces, and the first Sunni region, to return to the central government's control. It's a measure of the growing security gains in the war-scarred country, but simmering intra-Sunni tensions in Anbar are bubbling...