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...diplomacy, however, all is not as it seems. In Jordan, King Abdullah has said that a war would be Saddam's responsibility--a sign, say some analysts, that if fighting starts, he would stay neutral. Qatar, ostensibly opposed to war (and where the U.S. is building a new military base), may similarly be hedging its bets. In Washington, officials are convinced--or say they are convinced--that there's no reason to worry. "The Arabs," says a senior Administration official, "are not going to fall into line until we do something...
...feet above Corpus Christi, Texas. I was about 20 minutes into a routine training flight in my T-45 Goshawk (the Navy’s jet trainer) when the radio traffic suddenly got very busy. Within a few short minutes, I was instructed to abort my flight, return to base and land as soon as possible. Once on the ground, as I shut down my jet, a member of the ground crew climbed up to the canopy and told me over the noise of the flight line that the World Trade Center and Pentagon had been attacked...
...Qaeda and Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan. But this time, unlike the fight nearly three months before in Tora Bora, Americans would not rely on Afghans to supply the combat troops. Perez and most of the other members of Task Force Rakkasan had flown in from the Soviet-era air base at Bagram, an hour away. Intelligence reports at the base, just outside Kabul, had hinted that Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar might even be holed up in the sullen, beautiful valley. Perez liked the sound of that...
Nearly a month later, on Oct. 7, the day U.S. warplanes began bombing Afghanistan, Perez and 1,000 fellow soldiers left Fort Drum for a Soviet-era air base outside the town of Khanabad, Uzbekistan, 90 miles north of the Afghan frontier. Their mission was simple but dull: Secure the airfield. "God, this can't go on for six months," Perez said to himself during one of his 12-hour shifts patrolling the earthen berms that encircle the base. "Something's got to happen...
...children?and when the kids mess up, Dad takes the fall. That appears to be what happened to U.S. Navy Captain Thomas Hejl, until last week the commander of the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Kitty Hawk. After a string of alleged criminal acts by crew members of the Yokosuka-based ship, the Navy removed Hejl from his post 'due to a loss of confidence in his ability to lead his crew and carry out essential missions and taskings,' according to a statement by U.S. Seventh Fleet command. Six members of Hejl's crew have allegedly been involved in crimes committed around...