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...time police and troop reinforcements arrived from Australia to bolster the Regional Assistance Mission that has been providing security in the Solomons since 2003, most of Honiara's shopping hub had been razed, nine police cars burned and 32 Australian officers injured. Hundreds of ethnic Chinese, the mainstay of the limping economy, fled the country...
...adult in one hand, a book to be signed in the other, the children troop into the theater to ask questions of a highly important nature. Their target is the writer Neil Gaiman, whose fantasy book for kids The Wolves in the Walls has just been made into a musical that opened in Glasgow last month and transferred to London's Lyric Theatre for two weeks before going on tour in Scotland next month and England this fall. Gaiman explains to his young fans that the book was inspired by a nightmarish fantasy his daughter Maddy once had. The children...
While Franks said he needed at least 250,000 troops, Rumsfeld wanted no more than 100,000, fearing that larger numbers gathered on Saddam's doorstep would present a tempting target. Rumsfeld was also enamored of the dubious idea, backed by a few gung-ho Pentagon civilians, that a small force could hook up with tribesmen in the north and south and get the job done quickly. That might have worked against ragtag warlords in Afghanistan, but it would be dangerous in Iraq, where Saddam has a 400,000-man army. As the plan bounced between Washington and Franks' Tampa...
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was having one of his irregular chats with Senators last Wednesday, speaking in the secret, soundproof fourth-floor Capitol chamber used for highly classified conversations, when someone interjected the question that was on everyone's mind. "What troop levels do we expect to have in Iraq a year from now?" asked Senator Bill Frist, the Republican leader...
...matter who ends up in the White House in January, U.S. troops are staying in Iraq indefinitely--possibly in even greater numbers. Pentagon officials say U.S. troop strength there, now at 136,000, could rise by as many as 15,000 during the first four months of 2005, as troops arriving to replace those who have been there for a tour of duty overlap. Bush has refused to set a timetable for a reduction in forces, and insists that "we will stay the course" until Iraq is stabilized. Kerry is trying to convince the public that he can turn things...