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WASHINGTON (AP) - A well-known volunteer police officer who directs traffic at a busy Georgetown intersection was fighting for his life Saturday after he was struck my a sport-utility vehicle and rushed to George Washington University Hospital in critical condition, a District of Columbia police spokesman said. Joseph Pozell, 59, was seriously injured just after 3:30 p.m. when he was directing traffic at the intersection of M Street and Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Sgt. Joe Gentile said. A 19-year-old woman driving a Honda CR-V ran into him while making a left turn onto M Street, Gentile said. Pozell, a native of...

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Until modern times, there existed no form of legitimacy in the Middle East outside of Islam. Rulers ruled in the name of God; assassins struck them down in the name of God. The assassinations of the early caliphs and the struggle between the Sunni rulers and the Assassins in the Middle Ages took precisely this form: each side claimed to act in accord with divine will, revealed in divine texts. Religion played a crucial role in the rationale of assassination, but it also played a crucial role in the rationale of government, law, and warfare—indeed, of everything. This invocation of...

'This is a slap in the face of the Europeans," was one reaction to... Bush's announcement to redeploy as many as 70,000 troops from "old Europe" and Asia over the next 10 years. [The] critic was retired Gen. Wesley Clark.... Portraying the Bush/Rumsfeld plan as affront to U.S. allies would have more credibility if the allies themselves were doing the complaining. In Germany, the reaction has been sober and accepting. People living near the U.S. bases marked for decommissioning are of course concerned. But they show few signs of fearing for their military security. They are mainly worried about what...

Nov. 4, 2003 German general dismissed for praising anti-Semitism By ASSOCIATED PRESS BERLIN Germany's defense minister on Tuesday dismissed the head of the country's elite special forces after the general praised a conservative lawmaker under investigation for alleged anti-Semitic remarks. Brig. Gen. Reinhard Guenzel, the commander of Germany's special forces since 2000 and a 40-year veteran of the armed forces, was fired after writing a letter to lawmaker Martin Hohmann, praising his "courage" for a speech that drew criticism from across the political spectrum and legal action from Jewish leaders. "It was an excellent speech, of a courage, truth and...

Allies: Iraqi General's Home Struck Sunday April 6, 2003 2:10 AM CAMP AS SAYLIYAH, Qatar (AP) - Coalition aircraft on Saturday struck the villa of an Iraqi general known as ``Chemical Ali'' for ordering a poison gas attack that killed thousands of Kurds in 1988. Allied officials said the general - Saddam Hussein's cousin - was believed to be home at the time, but it was not known whether he was killed or wounded. Two coalition aircraft used laser-guided munitions to attack Gen. Ali Hassan al-Majid's home in Basra, 250 miles southeast of Baghdad and under siege by British troops....