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...perfectly reasonable for peace activists to argue that the damages of a second Gulf War would outweigh its benefits—that the number of American soldier and Iraqi civilian lives to be lost, not to mention the desperate measures such a war might inspire in the hearts of terrorists, is simply too great to incur. And if we come to this conclusion, then let us not hesitate in our condemnation of military action. But the fact is that no sane supporter of human rights and democracy can deny that the world is better of without Saddam Hussein...
...terrorism are also under attack in Afghanistan, where al-Qaeda and its Taliban allies are waging a guerrilla campaign in the south and east of the country, with rocket attacks on U.S. bases becoming an almost daily affair. And in the Philippines last Wednesday, a U.S. soldier was killed by a nail bomb thrown from a motorcycle in an attack blamed on the radical Islamist Abu Sayyaf group, whose operations have been the focus of U.S. counterinsurgency efforts there...
...were at the base, the commission found that a drunken sergeant identified only as Roh?a common surname in South Korea?accidentally shot Hur's son once in the chest at a party in the early hours of April 2, 1984. The next morning?when the wounded soldier was still alive?he was shot again and killed. The commission didn't determine who actually murdered Hur's son or why. Understandably, the father isn't satisfied. He says he won't bury his son's ashes until the killer or killers come forward. With the commission closing the book...
...Special Forces soldiers assigned to protect president Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan have learned to trust no one. That lesson was made abundantly clear when a gunman dressed as a soldier in the newly formed Afghan army attempted to assassinate their charge in early September. It?s not hard to imagine how a recent altercation between Special Forces and Afghan government troops nearly erupted into a bloody melee inside the Presidential Palace grounds - a confrontation that says a lot about the future of the American presence in Afghanistan...
...Mike Foster. Less fortunate were the Caribbean island nations on Lili's route to the U.S.: she killed four people each in Jamaica and St. Vincent, as well as causing extensive damage on Barbados, where 400 homes were destroyed. IVORY COAST Can They Stop? The Ivorian government and rebel soldiers moved toward the signing of an unconditional cease-fire after intense negotiations mediated by West African diplomats. The rebels, who hold areas in the north of the Ivory Coast, including the cities of Bouake and Korhogo, have been battling the government of President Laurent Gbagbo since a failed coup...