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...military air strike on a suspected al-Qaeda target in Somalia reported Monday is but one of a number of U.S. operations there in recent days and weeks. In confirming the attack to TIME, a Pentagon official speaking on condition of anonymity said: "We have been active there for a lot longer than the past 48 hours.... Somalia is one of those troublesome 'ungoverned areas' - perhaps the worst in the world - and the U.S. has the authority to strike where it needs to there...
...State Department, which is usually very cautious about us acting, in this case, said, hey, go ahead," said the Pentagon official. The three al-Qaeda operatives were the target of the gunship raid in southern Somalia reported Monday, and one Pentagon official Tuesday morning said it appeared likely the strike had killed at least...
...Well, they just strike me funny. It's people who haven't done any self-examination, yet they know exactly how the world should...
...different in Anbar province, where the presence of American troops on the streets of places like Ramadi actually prompts violence rather than heading it off. Insurgents and fighters from al-Qaeda in Iraq regularly strike U.S. forces in Anbar with small arms, massive roadside bombs and mortars that carry blasts comparable to heavy artillery. Militants come to the area from surrounding countries and elsewhere in Iraq specifically for a chance to confront U.S. troops, which is part of the reason the insurgency persists. It's a dilemma familiar to counterinsurgency strategists: much of the fighting in Ramadi and other places...
...authors—Friedman Professor of Law Lucian A. Bebchuk, Yaniv Grinstein of Cornell University, and Urs Peyer from the Paris-based business school INSEAD—found that board directors at 6,500 companies received “lucky grants” or backdated options for which the strike date is timed in order to maximize profit...