European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 21, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 stars and strip e s wednesday March 21 2007 Detainee admits to uss Cole bombing plot by Pauline Jelinek the associated press Washington Waleed Mohammed bin attach Long suspected of plotting the bombing of the uss Cole confessed to planning the attack during a hearing at Guantanamo Bay Cuba Accord ing to a Pentagon transcript re leased monday an alleged chief operational planner for Al Aida bin attach also said he helped organize the bombings of the us embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 that killed More than 200 the Tran script said bin attach is latest suspected terrorist to confess at Gizmo seventeen sailors were killed and dozens injured when suicide bombers steered an expo Siv Sladen boat into the guided missile destroyer Cole on oct 12 2000 i participated in the buying or purchasing of the explosives bin attach said when asked what his role was in the attacks on the Cole and the embassies i put together the plan for the operation a year and a half prior to the operation buying the boat and recruiting the members that did the operation the release of bin at tasks Tran script came five Days after the Pentagon released the record of hear Ings held for three other so called High value suspects at Guantanamo bin attach said he met with the Man who did the Africa embassy bombings just a few hours before the operation took place i was the link Between Osama bin Laden and his Deputy sheikh Abd Alrahim a Nashiri bin attach said Rafiq soldiers with the 82nd airborne guard a Forward base near Chinar Village in Southern Afghanistan Nomarch 13 the growing demand for us troops there and in Iraq has left ground forces in the states Short of the training personnel and equipment that would be vital to fight a major ground conflict elsewhere senior us military and government officials acknowledge army deemed not ready for other conflicts by Ann Scott Tyson the Washington Post Washington four years after the invasion of Iraq the High and growing demand for us troops there and in Afghanistan has left ground forces in the United states Short of the training personnel and equipment that would be vital to fight a major ground conflict elsewhere senior us military and govern ment officials acknowledge More troubling the officials say is that it will take years for the army and Marine corps to recover from what some officials privately have called a death spiral in which the evermore rapid Pace of warzone rotations has consumed 40 percent of their total gear wearied troops and left no time to train to fight anything other than the insurgencies now at hand the risk to the nation is serious and deepening senior officers warn because the us military now lacks a Large strategic Reserve of ground troops ready to respond quickly and decisively to potential foreign crises whether the internal collapse of Pakistan a conflict with Iran or an outbreak of War on the Kore an Peninsula air and naval Power can Only go so far in compensating for infantry artillery and other land forces they said an immediate concern is that critical army Over seas equipment stocks for use in another conflict have been depleted by the recent troop increases in Iraq they said we have a strategy right now that is outstripping the Means to execute it Gen Peter Schoomaker army chief of staff testified before the Senate armed services committee on thursday Willard nominated to be Pacific Fleet commander Navy adm Robert f Willard has been nominated to become the new commander of us Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor Hawaii the defense department announced monday in previous assignments Wil lard has served As Deputy com Mander of Pacific Fleet and com Mander of 7th Fleet headquartered on the uss Blue Ridge based in Yokosuka Japan Willard is currently serving As vice chief of naval operations in Washington a defense depart ment news release says As an f14 aviator Willard has served aboard the aircraft Carri ers uss Kitty Hawk uss Constellation and uss Ranger according to the Navy he later commanded the amphibious assault ship uss Tripoli and the Carrier uss Abra Ham Lincoln in support of operations in Somalia and the persian Gulf since becoming a Flag officer Willard has served As commander of Carrier group five the Kitty Hawks strike group Willard would replace adm Gary Roughead who has been nominated to become head of Fleet forces command in nor Folk a from staff reports bin attach also said he was with bin Laden when the Cole was at tacked said to be an Al Aida operation Al chief he also is known As Taw fit bin attach or Tawfiq attach Hallada or simply Hallad us intelligence documents Al lege that bin attach a yemeni who was born and raised in saudi Arabia is a scion of a prominent terrorist family that includes his father Mohammed who was close to bin Laden and younger brother Hassan who has been held at Guantanamo since 2004 arriving at the age of 17 in the late 1990s bin attach allegedly alternated Between serv ing As bin Laden bodyguard and fighting Afghanistan Northern Alliance Force he lost his right leg in a Battlefield Accident in 1997 us intelligence says bin Laden wanted bin attach to be one of the hijackers on sept 11 2001 but that plan was foiled when bin attach was arrested in Yemen in april of that year and briefly imprisoned after attempt ing to get a us visa jury recommends 10 years for i in the deaths of three iraqis the associated press fort Campbell by Soldier convicted of negligent homicide in the deaths of three iraqi detainees was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Mon Day staff sgt Ray Girouard 24 was found guilty late Friday of three counts of negligent Homi cide but not guilty of premeditated murder he avoided life in prison a military panel also found Girouard guilty of obstruction of Justice for lying to investigators of conspiracy for trying to conceal the crime and of fail ure to obey a general order 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