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...about the same time that Bush's closest aide, counselor Karen Hughes, announced she would be packing up and heading back to Texas, longtime confidants of Powell began to whisper that the retired four-star general is tired of being undercut by Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the hard-liners who work for them...
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's sleek blue-and-white jet touched down late last week on the 13,000-foot, Soviet-built runway at Manas International Airport here, bringing him for the first time to his key base in the war on terror. The base is well on is way to becoming the central staging area for U.S. military operations in this part of the globe. Hammers clatter and saws whine across the post, dubbed Ganci Air Base after New York City Fire Chief Peter Ganci Jr., who died at the World Trade Center. Engineers are busy putting up housing...
...only small contingents of special forces troops, while others - like this one just outside Kyrgyzstan's capital of Bishkek - are substantial. The steppes of central Asia - a no-go zone for the U.S. military until last year - could become home to U.S. troops for years to come. Minutes after Rumsfeld arrived here last Friday, an impatient airman demanded to know how long U.S. troops would be in Kyrgyzstan. "As long as is necessary," Rumsfeld shot back...
...have activities in a number of the neighboring countries," Rumsfeld says. "Our basic interest is to have the ability to go into a country and have understandings about our ability to land, or overfly, and to do things that are of mutual benefit." He declines to discuss the specifics of the U.S. presence in the region, beyond saying the U.S. military "prefer to be arranged in ways that give us more options rather than fewer options...
...clear things up. But while the retired general's prestige in the region exceeds that of any other Administration official, he has often found himself outflanked in the White House--arguing for a more evenhanded approach to the warring parties while powerful hard-liners, led by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, push to give Sharon a freer hand. Rumsfeld argued against sending Powell to the region at all, against making any new offers to the Palestinians and against a Powell meeting with Arafat. "It's fight, fight, fight--all the time, at every step," says a Powell associate. "He's getting...