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BIDEN OVERSAW THE REOPENING OF U.S. EMBASSY IN KABUL IN 2002; TODAY HE AUTHORIZES TROOPS TO HELP EVACUATE EMBASSY PERSONNEL AND OTHERS.
By Tom Squitieri WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is mobilizing around 6,000 troops to help evacuate and protect U.S. diplomatic personnel and qualified Afghans from Kabul, with the operation to begin within 24 to 48 hours, Pentagon officials said Thursday. Following the Pentagon announcement, officials in the U.K. and Germany said their governments areRead moreAn ‘Immaculate Perception’ at the start of 2016
The lights from the party boats on the Mon twinkled merrily off the water as the clocks ticked closer to the new year. It was merely cool at Point Park in Pittsburgh, far from the bone chilling of an 8:30 p.m. game at Heinz Field. In the other direction, in a luminary concert, were theRead more