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...Kelly was New York Police Commissioner during the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, and took over the top job again in February last year. One of his first acts was to set up a dedicated counterterror unit, partly because he felt the city could not rely on the federal government for adequate protection. Time's New York correspondent Amanda Bower spoke with him shortly before the war in Iraq started...
...veteran of many federal authorities, but when you took over the NYPD you set up the city's own counterterror unit...
Then there is Blue Force Tracking, a computer system that collects coordinates from transponders on allied vehicles and creates a moving battle map. The good guys are marked in blue; enemy coordinates, called in from the battlefield, are plotted in red. But not all vehicles in each unit have a computer screen to display the information, and the data aren't updated in real time. The Holy Grail of identification systems is an encoded radio signal sent from a vehicle to a target which, if friendly, will automatically reply in milliseconds. Despite years of research and negotiations, it will...
...taken a wrong turn while passing near the town of Nasiriyah, but U.S. Congressman Silvestre Reyes, whose El Paso district encompasses Fort Bliss, says he was told by a senior officer that the convoy was ambushed on a bridge and had not taken a wrong turn. The lightly armed unit didn't have a chance. It had no combat escort, he says. If that's true, the fault for the convoy's vulnerability would lie not with its leader but with Army commanders. Reyes is reserving judgment while the Army investigates...
...public curiosity." Rumsfeld said the Iraqi TV and al-Jazeera broadcasts violated that rule, since the Americans, frightened and possibly roughed up by captors, were asked pointed questions--Where are you from? Why are you here?--before a TV audience. If it turns out that other Americans in their unit were executed (the broadcasts also showed a group of dead Americans, one of whom had a visible gunshot wound to the head), a much more serious crime--a "grave breach" of Geneva, in its stiff parlance--will have been committed...