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1/25/2006 - YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan (AFPN) -- Imagine searching door to door with Soldiers, looking for insurgents, high-value targets and weapons caches in Iraq. Envision the nerve it takes to do the job after having another Airman in the area critically injured by an improvised explosive device, or IED, only two weeks after being assigned to the unit. Two Yokota military working dog handlers, Staff Sgts. Gerald Morey and Matthew Claxton, returned here Dec. 28 after serving seven months with Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, part of the U.S. Army’s 18th Airborne Corps. “We arrived in...

"I think it's very important for our friends, the Israelis, to have a peaceful Palestinian state living on their border. And it's very important for the Palestinian people to have a peaceful, hopeful future." So spoke President Bush just two days after his re-election, just exactly as news reports were leaking Yasser Arafat's demise.The combination of Mr. Bush's stunning new mandate and Mr. Arafat's near-death condition will lead, I predict, to a quick revival of Palestinian-Israeli diplomacy after months of relative doldrums and to massive dangers to Israel.The doldrums will cease because the Bush administration views Mr. Arafat as the...