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The Threat Is Real Investor's Business Daily Terror: To listen to the critics, you'd think the war in Iraq is all we have to worry about. It's not. Iraq is part of a global war on terror -- a war that's all too real. We've listened patiently, along with the rest of America, as President Bush's opponents try to redefine the war on terror as simply a war on Iraq -- one that was, from the very beginning, a tragic mistake. But the war on Iraq wasn't a mistake. It has been, in fact, a success. And it will have...

Soldiers assigned to the 1st Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) in Stuttgart, Germany, are training African soldiers along the outer reaches of the Sahara Desert in support of the global war on terrorism. Special Forces training teams from Special Operations Command Europe are in Bamako, Gao and Timbuktu, Mali; and Atar, Mauritania in northwestern Africa to provide foreign internal defense training for the Pan Sahel Initiative, a U.S. State Department security assistance program. "We're training basic platoon level tasks to one company of the 33rd Parachute Infantry Regiment in Bamako in order to enhance their capabilities to police their...