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...thing to endanger the safety of American troops. But God help you if you hurt their feelings. Geraldo Rivera, reporting from Iraq for Fox News last week, drew a map in the sand, on camera, that gave away his unit's location. (In Afghanistan, Rivera had reported that he was at the site of a friendly fire incident that occurred miles away, so knowing where he was was an improvement.) And Peter Arnett, a legendary war correspondent under contract with NBC News and MSNBC, gave an interview to Iraqi state TV in which he obsequiously praised the "courtesy" of Iraqi...
...republic of Dagestan. Due to chronic underfunding, many Russian schools are poorly maintained; last year there were 700 school fires. Sand Trap ALGERIA More than 1,000 soldiers and border guards joined the search for 29 Western tourists missing in the Sahara desert. Germany sent an élite antiterrorist unit to help in the hunt for the tourists, 18 of whom are German nationals, after Interior Minister Otto Schily visited Algiers. Fears grew that the travelers, the first of whom went missing in mid-February, were kidnapped by Islamic extremists. MEANWHILE IN ITALY ... Saints They Ain't Italian police...
...Kelly was New York Police Commissioner during the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, and took over the top job again in February last year. One of his first acts was to set up a dedicated counterterror unit, partly because he felt the city could not rely on the federal government for adequate protection. Time's New York correspondent Amanda Bower spoke with him shortly before the war in Iraq started...
...veteran of many federal authorities, but when you took over the NYPD you set up the city's own counterterror unit...
...public curiosity." Rumsfeld said the Iraqi TV and al-Jazeera broadcasts violated that rule, since the Americans, frightened and possibly roughed up by captors, were asked pointed questions--Where are you from? Why are you here?--before a TV audience. If it turns out that other Americans in their unit were executed (the broadcasts also showed a group of dead Americans, one of whom had a visible gunshot wound to the head), a much more serious crime--a "grave breach" of Geneva, in its stiff parlance--will have been committed...