U.S. Begins Anti-Terror Assistance In Georgia
Al Qaeda-Linked Rebels Find Haven in Mountains

The Pentagon has begun providing combat helicopters to the former Soviet republic of Georgia and will soon begin training several Georgian battalions to counter what defense officials believe is a growing terrorist threat in the country's mountainous Pankisi Gorge region, senior U.S. officials said yesterday.
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I wonder how the Russians feel about our marching into part of the old USSR?

Terror prisoners escape military tribunals

AMERICA has failed to compile evidence identifying any of the 500 prisoners it is holding from the Afghanistan war as suitable candidates for a military tribunal, the Pentagon conceded yesterday.

The admission is a major setback for the United States, which claimed that it had detained senior members of Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda network and the Taleban regime.

Despite holding the prisoners for weeks, and in some cases months, interrogators lack enough details to build a case against them that could be put before a specially-convened hearing, the officials said.
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If the Pentagon can't even get enough evidence to try these people in their kangaroo courts, why the hell are we keeping them? Sorry, I must be having a reality surge. Don't worry—it goes away after awhile.