Stabilizing Iraq will require "new and different actions" to improve security and promote political reconciliation, the Navy admiral poised to lead American forces in the Middle East said Tuesday. Adm. William Fallon, at his confirmation hearing, also told the Senate Armed Services Committee that it may be time to "redefine the goals" in Iraq. "I believe the situation in Iraq can be turned around, but time is short," he said. Fallon, 62, who currently is commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific, said he saw a need for a comprehensive approach to Iraq, including economic and political actions to resolve a problem that requires more than military force. "What we have been doing has not been working," he said. "We have got to be doing, it seems to me, something different." ... http://www.cbsnews.com censor News |
Editor - 08:54:00 01-30-07 |
Report: Russia negotiating sale of air defense missiles to Venezuela |
| Russia is holding talks with Venezuela to supply it with mobile air defense missile systems, a Russian news agency reported Tuesday, citing a defense sector source.Between 10 and 12 Tor-M1 missile systems could.. full News |
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White farmers, black land hunger: sparks fly in the tinder box Murder of KwaZulu-Natal manager shows failings of complex land reform plan in South Africa |
| Those who saw Ken Eva bludgeoned to death generally agree that the white farm manager sealed his fate with the first few words of his ultimatum to hundreds of fearful and hostile black villagers living on the N.. full News |
Editor - 08:48:00 01-30-07 |
Scientist snoops in astronauts' journals |
| Dear Diary, the astronauts write Well, maybe not in those exact words. But three times a week, the two U.S. astronauts aboard the international space station write down their secret thoughts in their personal j.. full News |
Editor - 08:41:00 01-30-07 |
New Congress to test bounds of its war powers Democrats, now in control, hold ability to stem flow of military funding |
| Bush may be the decision maker, but the Democratic-controlled Congress holds the purse strings.Whether to yank them shut when it comes to the conflict in Iraq, and under what conditions, is the question facing .. full News |
Editor - 08:36:00 01-30-07 |
Wolfowitz vs. the World Bank Board: It's Trench Warfare |
| Is Paul Wolfowitz under siege? And is his campaign to root out — or at least prune — the corruption that permeates lending at the $200 billion World Bank already a casualty?Appointed by the Bush Administration .. full News |
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