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...says, who are thought to have suffered as many as 80,000 casualties in chemical attacks. But after Gulf War I, Saddam's son-in-law Hussein Kamal, who headed the MIC, took the most talented Chemical Corps officers with him, according to Hussan. After that, he claims, the unit became a joke. "It should have been a sensitive unit--it once was--but in the end that's where we dumped our worst soldiers." Comments a Republican Guard major of the Corps: "It had nothing...
...aren't long enough to provide an easy escape in case of emergency. Enter the LifeCender: a new, portable escape harness that allows a person to rappel down the side of a building. It comes in a briefcase-like box and goes on like a life jacket. Once the unit is anchored and secured, a person can control his or her descent to safety with a knob that monitors how quickly the cord unspools. --By Lisa McLaughlin
Despite these allegations, a senior Serbian security official tells TIME that Radosavljevic "insists that he be the commander of the unit." Neither Radosavljevic nor the Serbian government would comment. But Radosavljevic recently told a Belgrade newspaper that he has never been implicated by the Hague war-crimes tribunal and that "I'm ready to go to court to prove my innocence if it turns out to be necessary." A U.S. State Department official, meanwhile, would confirm only that Serbian and Montenegrin officials visited U.S. military leaders in Washington and at Central Command headquarters in Tampa, Fla., last week for consultations...
...must be Italian. All peeled tomatoes must come from Italy. In fact, it becomes clear that authenticity mostly means buying Made-in-Italy goods - this is an unabashed promotion of Italian exports. "It's not Italy against Spain or France," says Stefano Crea, head of DNV's food certification unit, who has also come to da Beni today. "It's each country protecting its own." Italians, he says, are tired of the frauds perpetrated in their name - spaghetti on toast, with meatballs, from a can. "We don't say the chef has to be Italian - just of the Italian school...
Collins served as a chaplain in the Army’s 89th Division during World War II, and delivered a sermon during the Battle of the Bulge shortly after his unit arrived in Europe...