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Latest U.S. Boat Strike Kills 2 in Pacific

The operation was authorized by the Marine general who took command of military operations in Latin America and the Caribbean earlier in the day.

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Gen. Francis L. Donovan during a Senate Armed Services Committee nomination hearing last month. He has since been promoted to general and placed in command of U.S. military operations in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Pentagon Official Rejects Plea Deal in U.S.S. Cole Bombing Case

The decision clears the way for the first death-penalty trial at Guantánamo Bay to start this summer, more than 25 years after the attack.

© Hasan Jamali/Associated Press

The U.S.S. Cole at a Yemeni harbor in October 2000, more than two weeks after an attack by Al Qaeda suicide bombers killed 17 sailors and wounded dozens of others.
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