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...ever since Jabr was appointed Interior Minister after the January 2005 election brought a religious Sh'ite coalition to power, Sunnis allege, he began remaking the paramilitary National Police into Shi'ite shock troops. A member of the Iranian-backed Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), Jabr fled to Iran in the 1970s to avoid Saddam's crackdown. Jerry Burke, a former civilian senior police advisor to the Interior Ministry, said Jabr's experience with Saddam's government has left him bitter and distrustful of anyone he suspects has ties to the previous regime. That would most...
...planes for self-defense and hitting enemy targets. The Vinson, for example, carries 24 F-14 fighters and 38 A-6E and A-7E attack planes, as well as four E-2C Hawkeyes to detect incoming enemy planes, four EA-6B Prowlers to jam enemy radar and radio, six SH-3 helicopters and ten S-3 Vikings for antisubmarine warfare. By 1991, Secretary Lehman is all but assured of having three new Nimitz-class nuclear carriers. Lehman makes clear that he wants a carrier force that can engage and defeat the Soviet navy. At the outbreak of a war between...
...over it. His two latest plays, Some Girl(s) and This Is How It Goes, both about the lies men and women tell each other and both running in London, come with his signature caveats: trust no one, and there are no happy endings. "A good relationship equals a sh__ty story," LaBute says. "Drama's fundamental building block is conflict. You have to pitch people at one another. So my job is to look for ways to ruin a perfectly good day for people." This cheerful observation issues from a bear of a man with tortoiseshell glasses...
...House to the military, had chopped three systems from its bill on the reasonable ground that they did not rate high priority at a time of limited available funds. They were the 9-mm Beretta handgun, which is a replacement for the venerable Colt .45; the Navy's SH-2F submarine-hunting helicopter; and the Army's field artillery support vehicle. All were restored in conference simply because the Pentagon would be saving $1 billion by closing some of its bases, and an additional $1.8 billion by curtailing retirement spending. That meant the military budget would fall below the Senate...
...includes Halliburton's Kellogg Brown & Root subsidiary and a third headed by the Spanish tollway operator Cintra. Fluor got into the game early. It submitted an unsolicited bid for work on the Trans-Texas Corridor in early 2002, before there was even an approved state plan. "Our work on SH 130 is considered the TTC's precursor," says Fluor vice president Steve Dobbs...