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...suspected to be fervent Saddam partisans. These covert monitoring programs, along with a recently disclosed overt FBI effort to interview about 50,000 Iraqi emigres scattered around the US, are aimed at spotting early warning signs that the Baghdad regime is attempting to organize terrorist attacks on US soil...
...World Trade Center bombing in 1993, was trained in Afghanistan. The war left Afghanistan desolated; an estimated 1 million people died in the conflict. And what happened afterward? The warring factions fought one another, the Taliban took over, and guess whom they allowed in to train terrorists on their soil...
...first glance it would seem he was right. Yet there is life in the Dry Valleys, albeit life that is primitive in form and exceedingly cryptic. Minuscule roundworms called nematodes and insects known as springtails constitute what biologists jokingly call the "lions and tigers of the soil." The top of the aquatic food chain is occupied by single-cell protozoa that feed on bacteria...
...Many were receiving fresh coats of whitewash and were flying new, brightly colored regimental flags. Officers were supervising repairs to some forts, and earth-moving equipment were being used to build trenches and protective mounds of soil. A few forts were also being supplied with water and other provisions. Small detachments of soldiers were being transported in both directions of the highway, on pickup trucks; a few armored personnel carriers and mobile artillery pieces were also on the move...
...TURKEY Joining Forces Turkey has balked at requests to let the U.S. base ground forces on its soil, but its own military is already in the game. A senior U.S. official told Time that Turkish officers are working closely with U.S. special forces now deployed in Kurdish-held areas of northern Iraq, and the arrangement is working for both sides. The U.S. learns the lay of the land from those familiar with it, while Turkey gets firsthand knowledge of the movements of potential Kurdish adversaries, as well as some goodwill from Washington. Turkish troops have good reasons for wanting...