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| Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:00:00 EST A new look for post-Katrina emergency management |
| Emergency management in the United States is about to look very, very different — if the White House gets its way, that is. A report released Thursday by White House homeland security adviser Frances Townsend recommends, among other things, that the Pentagon take the lead role in highly catastrophic disasters that overwhelm state and local officials. |
| Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:00:00 EST Port security pitfalls |
| Some 95 percent of the goods imported into the United States come by sea, so it's no secret that many security hawks take the security of the nation's 361 commercial seaports very seriously. But the issue gained a new urgency this week when members of Congress on both sides of the aisle–as well as several Republican governors–came out gunning against a decision to allow Dubai Ports World, a company owned by the government of United Arab Emirates, to take over operations at some terminals at six U.S. ports as part of a $6.8 billion merger deal with a British shipping company. |
| Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:00:00 EST A snapshot of America's fiscal health |
| A newly released survey of the state of consumer finances shows how important rising home values have been to American families. |
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| Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:20:04 EST Bush: Port security is not the issue |
| President Bush today defended his administration's decision to allow a company from an Arab country to operate six major U.S. ports, saying, "People don't need to worry about security." Some critics of the deal say the United Arab Emirates has ties to terrorism. Two of the 9/11 hijackers came from the UAE and most of the money for the 9/11 attacks was funneled through the banking center of Dubai. |
| Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:15:49 EST Revenge attacks rage in Iraq; 7 U.S. soldiers killed |
| More than 100 people have been killed in Iraq in violence that boiled over after Wednesday's attack on a revered Shiite mosque in Samarra. No one seems safe from the attacks. According to police, casualties include senior members of the Iraqi army, soldiers, journalists, civilians and children. Fifty Sunni mosques have been attacked in Baghdad since the strike on the Shiite mosque. |
| Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:17:03 EST Two arrested in $43 million UK heist |
| Two people have been arrested in connection with the multi-million-dollar armed robbery in southern England, police say. |
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