No shots had to be fired to end a recent standoff between Kurdish Peshmerga
fighters and Iraqi Army soldiers in this town in northern Diyala province. It
came down to politics, not bullets.
Spc. Tiburcio Bazante sank ankle-deep into the mud with each
step he took.The Baumholder, Germany-based soldier waved a metal detector in front of him,
searching for weapons caches hidden along the side of a canal near Al Batta,
Iraq.
Italian officials insisted Thursday its government will honor existing
agreements with the U.S. and NATO in the wake of the prime minister's pledge to
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi that no U.S. or NATO bases in Italy would be used
to launch a strike against Libya.
Aline Tyler hoped Sunday would bring some resolution to the
trauma she suffered on Sept. 11, 2001.Tyler, 50, was in the Pentagon when American Airlines Flight 77 slammed into
the building, she said.
