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...Kerry get it? Kerry led three swift boats up a canal on Feb. 28, 1969, and ordered a daring attack on Viet Cong positions. When his boat took rocket fire, Kerry directed his crew to head straight for the beach, taking the guerrilla with the rocket launcher by surprise. Kerry jumped ashore and killed...
...Kerry get it? As the commander of a Navy swift boat, he went ashore several times in pursuit of Viet Cong...
Assistant U.S. Attorney General Viet Dinh ’90 told the audience at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum that he believes most criticism of the PATRIOT Act—which permits increased governmental scrutiny of civilians by authorizing techniques like secret subpoenas and wiretaps and by creating more stringent immigration controls—is excessive...
...custody at a prison outside Baghdad. Abbas, whose real name was Mohammed Abbas, had lived in the Iraqi capital under government protection in recent years, but was captured by U.S. forces after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Abbas?who learned his guerrilla tactics while fighting alongside the Viet Cong in the late 1960s?came to epitomize the jet-setting international terrorist, living in Tunisia, Algeria, Libya and Lebanon while organizing attacks against Israeli targets. His group, the Palestine Liberation Front, has accused the U.S. of assassinating Abbas. The U.S. military says he died of a heart attack...
...Which brought the interview to the crux of Gardner?s beef against Kerry. Gardner-who remembers no important dates or times or locales-claims that Kerry once threatened him with a court martial. The incident happened when Gardner, who told me he had ?no trouble shooting gooks,? saw a Viet Cong guerilla with an AK-47 in a boat and started firing. ?I lay the hammer down on him,? Gardner explains. ?I just put a finger on the gun: boom, boom, boom, boom. He?s done. He got flipped out of the boat, he went straight down. That?s when...