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101st Airborne Division reinforce the roof of a
forward observation post with sand bags. The 101st
is providing security near Kabul, Afghanistan, as
the Special Forces Group trains new recruits for
the Afghan National Army. Photo by Tech. Sgt. Mike
Buytas, USAF |
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New FBI Anti-Terror Structure;
'We Need a Different Approach' |
| By Linda D. Kozaryn / American Forces Press Service |
WASHINGTON, May 29, 2002 — Bob Mueller, a former U.S. Marine Corps officer and Vietnam veteran, is overhauling the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation to adapt to its new counterterrorism mission.
Mueller, who became the agency's director on Sept. 4, 2001, says the FBI must be able to 'connect the dots' to prevent the next terrorist attack.
U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft opened a briefing at FBI headquarters Wednesday afternoon expressing support for Mueller as the man to reorganize the bureau. He said the FBI is on the front lines of the war on terrorism, and the former Marine has served the nation on the front lines "where the fight is always the most fierce."
Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Ashcroft noted, Mueller activated a 24-hour-a-day command center at the FBI's strategic information operations center to track terrorists around the world. The FBI launched the largest criminal investigation in U.S. history, deploying 6,000 special agents who tracked more than a quarter of a million investigative leads and received close to half a million tips and phone calls.
The FBI is working to enact new laws to dramatically strengthen the agency's information-gathering capacity, Ashcroft added. It also is sharing intelligence and investigative information more broadly than ever before within the law enforcement and intelligence communities, he said. More Mueller Remarks |
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Rumsfeld: Air Force Graduates
Are Bulwark Against Terrorism |
| By Gerry J. Gilmore / American Forces Press Service |
WASHINGTON, May 29, 2002 — U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told U.S. Air Force Academy graduates Wednesday that they begin their careers during wartime and with the military embarked upon unprecedented transformation.
The country is now waging war against global terrorism, Rumsfeld noted to graduates in his remarks prepared for delivery at the academy commencement ceremony in Colorado Springs, Colo. "Like Pearl Harbor some six decades ago, the United States has been attacked," Rumsfeld said. "And once again, our freedom is in the hands of brave men and women."
He said the new Air Force officers' military service "will help to determine that America survives in this new and dangerous century. You are what stands between us and an enemy that, as President (George W.) Bush has said, cannot be appeased, cannot be ignored, and must not be allowed to win." More |
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May is National Military Appreciation Month in
the United States. Send your thanks to the men
and women of the U.S. military by signing this
online thank
you note
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War on Terror Is War
Between Present, Past |
By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service |
Deputy U.S. Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz will travel to Singapore and stress to defense leaders that the war on terrorism is a conflict between two visions of the world.
Wolfowitz said the terrorists would like to take the "Muslim world, at least, and maybe a large part of the rest of the world, back to the Middle Ages."
Al Qaeda and other terror groups want a world ruled by intolerance and repression, he said, adding that the terrorists are not only opposed to the democratic values exemplified by the U.S., but also against an increasing number of countries in East Asia that have embraced democracy. More |
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Military,
Civilian Forces
Come Together for Drill |
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routine at Camp Gruber in Oklahoma was broken recently
by a frantic call for help: terrorists had bombed
a village and taken hostages. Fortunately there
were no actual terrorists attacking the base. It
was only a training exercise, one of many that have
been held across the nation in the wake of the terrorist
attacks last Sept. 11. Story |
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NATO is Strong, Growing
As 9 Nations Seek to Join |
Nine countries are lined up seeking admission
into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in November.
The fact that so many emerging democracies
are looking to join begs the question of whether the North Atlantic
alliance is relevant in the post-Cold War world, said Lord George
Robertson, secretary-general of the alliance.
The nine countries seeking admission are Estonia,
Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania,
and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. During a meeting
in Prague, Czech Republic, in November, the heads of state of
the 19 NATO countries will announce which countries will be
invited to join the alliance. More |
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| Reconstruction of Sultan Rasia
School - Work on Phase II of Sultan Rasia School
(the main building) continues. The foundation work
is almost complete; decorative stones are being
cut by hand and placed along the base of the building.
Support scaffolding has been erected on the second
floor and steel sheeting is being set up so that
a new concrete roof can be poured. The United Nations
Children's Fund delivered and set up eight temporary
tents next to the completed outer buildings (phase
I) so classes will continue during reconstruction.
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| Robert Penniger |
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 Robert Penniger lived life to the fullest. He enjoyed motorcycle trips with his wife and friends and attending car shows where he won trophies showing his 1999 Cobra Mustang.
He will be greatly missed by those whose lives he touched.
We will not forget him.
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