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  United States Department of DefenseNews ReleaseOn the web: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Mar2003/b03282003_bt169-03.html Media contact: media@defenselink.mil or +1 (703) 697-5131 Public contact: public@defenselink.mil or +1 (703) 428-0711   No. 169-03 IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 28, 2003 DOD ANNOUNCES MARINE KILLED IN NON-HOSTILE ACCIDENT The Department of Defense announced today that Marine Major Kevin G. Nave, 36, of Union Lake, Mich., was killed March 26 in a non-hostile vehicle accident in Iraq. Major Nave was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, Camp Pendleton, Calif. The accident is under investigation.

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* * * * WASHINGTON UPDATE * * * * RUMSFELD MEMO TO NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL: HOW TO WIN THE SPIN WAR By Joel C. Rosenberg, national correspondent, WORLD magazine (www.worldmag.com) ** ADVANCE FROM NEXT WEEK'S WORLD MAGAZINE ** (WASHINGTON, D.C., March 27, 2003) -- Fox News Channel star Ollie North is drawing huge ratings reporting from the front lines with his fellow Marines. David Bloom of NBC is suddenly a household name. CNN's Walter Rodgers breathlessly tells the Washington Post via satellite phone from deep inside Iraq, "I don't believe I've ever had such access over 36 years...

  United States Department of DefenseNews ReleaseOn the web: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Mar2003/b03262003_bt154-03.html Media contact: media@defenselink.mil or +1 (703) 697-5131 Public contact: public@defenselink.mil or +1 (703) 428-0711   No. 154-03 IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 26, 2003 DOD IDENTIFIES ARMY SOLDIER KILLED The Department of Defense announced today the identity of an Army soldier who was killed in action March 24 in Iraq. Army Spc. Gregory P. Sanders, 19, of Indiana, was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 69th Armor, Fort Stewart, Ga.

NEWS RELEASEHEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND 7115 South Boundary Boulevard MacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101 Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894 March 23, 2003Release Number: 03-03-52 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DOD Release: Coverage of POWs and Deceased Out of respect for the families and consistent with the principles of the Geneva Conventions: 1) We request news organizations not air or publish recognizable images or audio recordings that identify POWs. Additionally, we request you not use their names, first or last, or their unit until next-of-kin notification is complete. We are working hard to reach their families. We will notify...

11 confirmed KIA, 14 confirmed MIA in IraqFrom the International DeskPublished 3/24/2003 9:42 PM WASHINGTON, March 24 (UPI) -- The Pentagon Monday released the names of 11 of its personnel killed in action and 14 missing in action in support of the war in Iraq. U.S. Central Command also acknowledged at least another 10 Marines killed in action near Nasiriyah Sunday. However, their identities were not released as the Defense Department was notifying the families. At least 14 U.S. personnel were missing in action, including two U.S. Army pilots whose Apache helicopter was downed in Iraq, and 12 soldiers in...

  United States Department of DefenseNews ReleaseOn the web: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Mar2003/b03252003_bt150-03.html Media contact: media@defenselink.mil or +1 (703) 697-5131 Public contact: public@defenselink.mil or +1 (703) 428-0711   No. 150-03 IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 25, 2003 DOD IDENTIFIES MARINES KILLED IN ACTION The Department of Defense announced today the identities of seven Marines killed in action March 23 in the vicinity of An Nasiriyah, Iraq. Killed were: Sgt. Michael E. Bitz, 31, Ventura, Calif. He was assigned to the 2nd Assault Amphibious Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, Camp Lejeune, N.C. Lance Cpl. David K. Fribley, 26, Lee, Fla. He was assigned to the 1st...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- One day when historians scour old newspaper clips to glean America's mood as war seemed to grow ever closer, the town meeting here to discuss the possible invasion of Iraq may escape unnoticed — a minor event that made no news, changed few minds and maybe wasn't even representative of the nation as a whole. But in an overflowing school auditorium Monday night, at a forum with their congressman, a two-star Marine general and an assistant secretary of Defense, the citizens of Alexandria spoke of overwhelming concerns about war with Iraq, and particularly its aftermath. Their antiwar...

United States Department of DefenseNews ReleaseOn the web: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Feb2003/b02072003_bt060-03.html Media contact: media@defenselink.mil or +1 (703) 697-5131 Public contact: public@defenselink.mil or +1 (703) 428-0711   No. 060-03 IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 7, 2003 TOTAL INFORMATION AWARENESS (TIA) UPDATE The Department of Defense will establish two boards to provide oversight of the Total Information Awareness Project, the program designed to develop tools to track terrorists. The two boards, an internal oversight board and an outside advisory committee, will work with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), as it continues its research. These boards will help ensure that TIA develops and disseminates its...

<p>Critics fear the military research project could lead to government probes of computer databases on everything from civilians' credit-card transactions to their purchases of airline tickets.</p> <p>Both Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin and Republican Sen. Charles Grassley have raised questions about the program, run by retired Navy Rear Adm. John Poindexter, a figure in the Iran-contra scandal of the 1980s.</p>

Filed at 6:54 p.m. ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The missile defense system President Bush ordered to be deployed will not work and is a waste of money, critics said on Tuesday while the Pentagon acknowledged the system initially will provide only modest protection. ``I have no great confidence that it's going to work under real-world conditions,'' said Lawrence Korb, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations think tank who served as assistant secretary of defense under President Ronald Reagan. Bush directed the Defense Department to begin deploying a national missile defense system with land- and sea-based interceptor rockets to...

WASHINGTON — If the Homeland Security Act is not amended before passage, here is what will happen to you:Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank deposit you make, every trip you book and every event you attend — all these transactions and communications will go into what the Defense Department describes as "a virtual, centralized grand database." To this computerized dossier on your private life from commercial sources, add every piece...

Now what do we do in Iraq? October 14, 2002 BY ROBERT NOVAK SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST Now that Congress has droned through a week of largely desultory debate to authorize the use of force against Iraq, how will it be exercised? That is properly a military secret, unknown even to members of Congress. More questionable, it is also unknown to senior military officers. If there is a precise plan for action to remove Saddam Hussein from power, general officers at the Pentagon tell members of Congress that they are in the dark. This may be another example of Secretary of Defense...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military began deploying anti-aircraft missiles at the Pentagon and bases around Washington on Monday for an exercise to test a multi-layered defense of the national capital region, defense officials said. "Avenger" anti-aircraft systems -- heat-seeking Stinger missiles on wheeled Humvee military jeeps -- will be stationed at the bases for at least four days beginning on Tuesday, including Wednesday's anniversary of Sept. 11 hijack airliner attacks on America. The officials, who asked not to be identified, told Reuters the "Clear Skies 2" exercise did not call for missiles to carry live warheads. The exercise, similar...

Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto, P.C.ATTORNEYS AT LAW 3233 P Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20007-2756 (202) 342-6980 · FAX (202) 342-6984 For more information contact: (202) 342-6980FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Federal Judge Permits Linda Tripp to Prove Multiple Privacy Act Violations Committed By Defense DepartmentBush Administration Motion to Dismiss Denied Washington, D.C. , September 4, 2002 – In a 19-page written ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan has rejected the Bush Administration’s attempt to dismiss a complaint filed by Mrs. Linda Tripp alleging that the Defense Department committed multiple violations of the Privacy Act over a 2-month period of time...

A United States District Court Judge in Washington D.C. today denied a motion for summary Judgment filed by the Defense Department, allowing Linda Tripp's Privacy Act violation suit against the Department to continue forward. Dates have been scheduled for further filings and for discovery plans to be submitted. A status hearing has been ordered for October 4, 2002, in Washington, D.C. Details regarding this civil lawsuit may be found on Linda Tripp's web site (http://www.lindatripp.com). An Adobe Acrobat copy of the court documents regarding this decision is found here.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 — Commanders in the American military's most elite Special Operations unit are contending that their troops should be freed from the fruitless hunt in Afghanistan for Osama bin Laden, military and intelligence officials say. Some senior officers in the Joint Special Operations Command have concluded that Mr. bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda, was probably killed in the American bombing raid at Tora Bora last December, officials said. They concluded that he died in a bombing raid on one of several caves that had been a target because American intelligence officials believed they housed Qaeda leaders....

Aviation Week & Space Technology: June 3, 2002 Exercise Jump-Starts Response to Attacks WILLIAM B. SCOTT/ROME, N.Y., HERNDON, VA., and COLORADO SPRINGS On-the-fly innovation, backed by excellent training, 'probably saved many lives' when terrorists struck the U.S. Sept. 11, 2001: "American 11 heavy, Boston Center. Your transponder appears to be inoperative. Please recycle. . . . American 11 heavy, how do you read Boston Center? Over. Air National Guard F-15s from Otis ANGB, Mass., scrambled in response to the hijacking of American Airlines Flight 11. They flew supersonically to New York, then intercepted about 100 aircraft during the next 5.5...

Walter Cronkite stepped up his criticism of the U.S. military's restrictions on coverage of troop activity in Afghanistan. "I am very upset that the Defense Department and the administration have not provided the facilities for the American people to know what their troops are doing in Afghanistan. It's been a total news blackout," he said in an interview with columnist Liz Smith. "We are not allowed to accompany troops into action, and this is a denial of the free speech and free press to which we're entitled." Forced to retire as anchor of the CBS Evening News 20 years ago...

Filed at 3:53 p.m. ET WASHINGTON (AP) -- Among the human remains painstakingly sorted from the Pentagon and Pennsylvania crash sites of Sept. 11 are those of nine of the hijackers. The FBI has held them for months, and no one seems to know what should be done with them. It's a politically and emotionally charged question for the government, which eventually must decide how to dispose of some of the most despised men in American history. ``I think in Islam, you're supposed to be buried whole, so I would take them and scatter them all over the place,'' said...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 — Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is considering ways to expand broadly the role of American Special Operations Forces in the global campaign against terrorism, including sending them worldwide to capture or kill Al Qaeda leaders far from the battlefields of Afghanistan, according to Pentagon and intelligence officials. Proposals now being discussed by Mr. Rumsfeld and senior military officers could ultimately lead Special Operations units to get more deeply involved in long-term covert operations in countries where the United States is not at open war and, in some cases, where the local government is not informed of...

An American war on Iraq looks a good way off. But the shadow-boxing has begunGet article background THE sword suspended over the head of Damocles hung, legend says, by a single horsehair. That hanging over the head of Saddam Hussein is only a little more secure. This is a man on whom the world's pre-eminent power has, in effect, declared war. Indeed, unlike most war declarations, George Bush's fatwa against him is personal. America's stated aim is not only to divest Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction (WMD) but also to change the regime in Baghdad. If he were...

<p>Washington, July 21 (Bloomberg) -- The government should consider reversing a more than a century of tradition and law to give the military authority to make arrests and fire their weapons on U.S. soil in the event of a terrorist attack, Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge said.</p>

NEW YORK - Enron's name is poison these days, so anything that can be slapped with that label already has one foot in the grave. Among the victims might be the Army's Crusader howitzer, which is championed by Army Secretary Thomas White, whose old Enron ties just might help Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld kill off the new howitzer by scaring away its Congressional supporters. White, a former Enron executive, has been criticized for his contacts with his old firm. That has made White something of a political liability for the Bush Administration, which naturally wants to distance itself from the...

<p>NEW YORK - Neuroscientists announced yesterday that they have created the world's first radio-controlled animal by wiring a computer chip directly into the brain of a living rat.</p> <p>The rat wears a small antenna and a backpack that translates a radio signal into electrical pulses applied to the brain. In one experiment at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, a researcher with a laptop was able to guide the rat over a complex three-dimensional maze of ladders, filing cabinets, and thin wooden boards, even though the animal usually prefers to skulk in dark corners.</p>

WASHINGTON, April 18 — Contending that the armed forces have been stretched thin by the campaign against terrorism, senior military officials are urging Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld to expand the forces by 50,000 or more men and women. Though George W. Bush criticized the Clinton administration in the 2000 presidential campaign for overextending the military, Mr. Rumsfeld is resisting calls to expand the forces, arguing that the cost is too high. The chiefs of the four services assert that the high pace of war operations in Central Asia combined with heightened security at all military installations across the...

It may be exactly what millions of people believe that it is. If so, it is the greatest archaeological find in centuries. Its official name is "The Ararat Anomaly". An independent correlation of maps of the region with information released in 1995 by the United States Defense Intelligence Agency places the Ararat Anomaly at "approximately 39 42' 10" N 044 16' 30" E at an elevation of approximately 14-15,000 feet and approximately 2.2 KM horizontal distance west of the summit". It is located by the Ahora Gorge, near the summit of Mt. Ararat, in Turkey. Turkey, in turn, is...

<p>MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- The U.S. Army will drop hundreds of pounds of clay dust and egg whites off the Florida coast next week, part of a four-day mock aerial terrorist attack.</p> <p>The exercise aims to determine how well existing U.S. radar systems can detect weapons of mass destruction that might be dispersed from the sky using crop dusters and other aircraft.</p>

Disinformation is the word propagandists use for official lies crafted to deceive and manipulate an enemy. Masters of statecraft from Sun Tzu to Machiavelli to Lord Bryce have advocated its use in war. The United States employed it without complaint against Adolf Hitler during World War II. The United Kingdom has used it for at least a century and continues to do so. But Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld opposes lying to the press for any reason, and has said so repeatedly. Indeed, Rumsfeld favors a truth offensive. Now, consider the following: "The Feb. 19 New York Times story related to...

ABC World News Tonight anchor Peter Jennings has complained bitterly about U.S. military efforts to control coverage of the war in Afghanistan. Appearing on Larry King's CNN interview show, Jennings remarked that the Pentagon saw it "as their role to get past us and deal as directly as they can with the American people, so that the American people ... hear only what they have to say." However, Jennings commented,"It is the role and the right and I would add the requirement ... [for] the press to be there to see what's really happening. ... But in this current campaign,...