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...string" of terrorists: "We know who is whom and who is where. We've broken their backs." He claimed that a lode of al-Qaeda computer disks captured in July showed that the group's leaders have contingency plans to shift operations away from the hinterlands of Pakistan to Somalia and Sudan. And just last week, Pakistan's military said it launched an air and ground attack against a suspected al-Qaeda training camp in the tribal area of Waziristan, killing more than 60 recruits and their Uzbek and Chechen trainers...
...case study in weighing the value of a show of strength, and Fallujah is the fulcrum. The city exploded in March, when a mob killed four U.S. private security contractors and played with their charred bodies like beach balls. The President reacted as expected. This would not be his Somalia. On the night of the killings, at 6:15, General John Abizaid, head of U.S. Central Command, called the White House residence to give word that within 72 hours there would be a "specific and overwhelming attack to restore justice," as a senior Administration official...
...send a signal to Israel that Bush was not going to meddle in its affairs. Condoleezza Rice did promise that the 82nd Airborne wouldn't be escorting children to school, but it was the small acts of international charity and the global police functions--as in Haiti and Somalia--to which Bush team members objected. Once nation building was a means to solve the greatest security threat of our time, they no longer saw it as a waste of U.S. manpower and prestige...
Coming into Athens, 86 of the record 202 participating countries had never won a medal of any kind, and the loudest cheers went to those who made national history, however small or troubled their nation. Women sprinters from Afghanistan and Iraq, Somalia and Bahrain--whose Rokia Al Ghasra ran in full hijab--were treated with special reverence by the crowds, as was windsurfer Gal Fridman, who sailed Israel to its first gold medal in 52 years of competition. The victory was made all the more fascinating with the revelation that his first name means wave in Hebrew. Competition, empathy...
...most of the chance to compete at all. Coming into Athens, 86 of the 202 participating countries had never won a medal of any kind, and the loudest cheers went to those who made national history, however small or troubled their nation. Muslim women sprinters from Kuwait, Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan and Bahrain - some of whom ran in head scarves - were treated with special reverence by the crowds. So was windsurfer Gal Fridman, who sailed Israel to its first gold medal in 52 years of competition, and whose victory seemed all the more appropriate given that his first name means wave...