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...Clinton may have thought that by ruling out an immediate U.S. pullout from Somalia after the Oct. 3 fire fight in Mogadishu, which claimed 18 American lives, he was demonstrating that the U.S. would not cut and run if some of its soldiers were killed. But by setting a March 31 deadline for withdrawal, no matter what, he seems to have initially sent the opposite message to the Haitian military leaders. The mob in Port-au- Prince shrieked threats to create ''another Somalia...
...enable the U.S. and U.N. to negotiate with Aidid without officially ignoring a Security Council resolution calling for the arrest, trial and punishment of ''those responsible.'' And if the commission eventually concludes that Aidid really was the one primarily responsible? Well . . . maybe it won't do so until after March 31, when U.S. troops are safely...
...March, he received the first SEAS Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising, a prize that recognizes both advising sensitivity and successful curricular experience...
...agency document released by the Obama Administration last week) led to the capture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed - the self-proclaimed architect of the 9/11 attacks. His capture, in turn, helped prevent future terror strikes, they maintain; Mohammed himself, the memos revealed, was waterboarded a startling 183 times in March 2003 (a May 2005 memo from a CIA lawyer said waterboarding could be used on a detainee up to 12 times daily for as long as 40 seconds per event). Then-CIA director George Tenet, in his 2007 memoir, says that tough interrogation of al-Qaeda members - and documents found...
...among defense intellectuals and the brass inside the Pentagon. Hawks insist that the Chinese are seeking to drive the U.S. military out of the Pacific, and make it Beijing's lake rather than what it has been for decades, an American pond. They point to episodes such as the March 8 incident involving the U.S.S. Impeccable, a Navy surveillance ship that was harassed while cruising 75 nautical miles off the coast of Hainan. Five Chinese vessels surrounded it and tried to snatch its towed array radar from the water. Gates, responding to the incident, said he "didn't think...