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...Schoomaker, an original member of Delta Force, to be the next Army Chief of Staff. This is the first time in U.S. history that a top commando has been tapped to lead the entire Army and is yet another indication of the Administration's growing reliance on America's secret soldiers. "God love him," said Air Force Colonel Randy O'Boyle, who directed part of the Faw operation. "[Rumsfeld] had the confidence to unleash us on the target...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Secret Armies Of The Night | 6/23/2003 | See Source »

Some 10,000 special-forces troops saw action in Iraq, the largest such deployment since World War II and three times the number who participated in Gulf War I. From a secret base in western Saudi Arabia, they seized a pair of airfields and scoured the Iraqi desert for Scuds every night for nearly a month. In the east, they secured a port for the delivery of humanitarian goods. And in the south, they fought to keep Saddam from destroying the 1,000 oil wells that are the country's financial future. Teams in humvees and low-flying helicopters rolled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Secret Armies Of The Night | 6/23/2003 | See Source »

Special forces were usually ahead of the tip of the spear: as U.S. troops pushed toward Baghdad, secret combat teams zipped into Iraq aboard specially outfitted MC-130 Combat Talon planes that used highways as landing strips, surprising the enemy at its rear. On the road to Tikrit, they fingered Iraqi vehicles fleeing the capital for destruction by M1 tanks. And inside the capital, the elite Delta Force slipped into Baghdad's back alleys and into its sewers to eavesdrop on communications, cut fiber-optic cables, target regime leaders and build networks of informants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Secret Armies Of The Night | 6/23/2003 | See Source »

...Hamas aims to thwart the Zionists' "aspir[ation] to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates." The charter cites the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a forgery originating in the early 1900s that purports to set out the secret plans of Jewish leaders to take over the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back To Bloodshed: How Hamas Views The World | 6/23/2003 | See Source »

After months of secret negotiations, the companies recently announced their nuptials, with Todd Bradley as CEO. The merger's premise is that Treos and Zires can be marketed more efficiently by one organization than two. Hawkins will return as chief technology officer, and Dubinsky will merely sit on the board. Still to be decided: the new company's name. PalmSpring, anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Case Study: Hand In Palm | 6/23/2003 | See Source »

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