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...President Roosevelt and attorney general Francis Biddle, who would serve as the government's lead prosecuting attorney, suddenly had an opportunity to prove that we had made progress, that we had defeated the first Nazi threat on our soil. Hoover in particular wanted to maximize the public relations value of the arrests: He kept secret for a few years that it was two of the saboteurs, who, hoping to defect, had alerted the FBI to the plan, not prodigious agents...
...have answered this tremendous loss of human life with more loss of human life. I am scared of bombing Red Cross buildings and of starving refugees mistaking unexploded bombs for our aid packages. I’m terrified by the horrific cycle of violence we are perpetuating on foreign soil. And I am terrified of the retaliation we are provoking from people who are already bent against...
...There is a precedent for such an order: In 1942, eight Nazi saboteurs sneaked onto U.S. soil armed with explosives to be directed against military and civilian installations. Their plan was thwarted, and all were tried and convicted in a secret military trial ordered by President Roosevelt. Of the eight, six were electrocuted...
...seven World Championship hockey tournaments, they have yet to win a gold medal after falling to the U.S. at the 1998 Olympics in Nagano. The U.S. is eager to defend its title and take advantage of a rare opportunity to win a gold medal on its own soil...
...grumbling is to heed it. Rumsfeld and his generals say there has been no abrupt shift in strategy. "We're in the driver's seat," says Rear Admiral John Stufflebeem. But now the commanders are stepping on the accelerator. As many as 100 commandos are already on Afghan soil and hooking up with Northern Alliance forces. The "forward air controllers" among them call in B-52 strikes to pound Taliban positions without hitting Alliance troops. Until now the Taliban's front lines have been spared the weight of American bombs, but last week the U.S. unleashed 80% of its firepower...