By Renee Schoof and Margaret Talev
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
U.S. Army Soldiers secure the area surrounding a fire
burning within the 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment's
command point area at Forward Operating Base Warhorse.
DoD photo by Senior Airman Steve Czyz, U.S. Air Force.WASHINGTON — Hours after President Bush appealed for more time for his Iraq plan to work, the House of Representatives voted 223-201 Thursday for a dramatic change of course — a troop withdrawal to start in four months and a shift in the mission by next year mainly to fight against international terrorists.
Both the House vote and a similar one planned in the Senate next week add pressure on Republicans facing widespread frustration with the war. Most Republicans say they won't vote to force Bush to withdraw troops on a timetable and that they'll wait for a mid-September report to decide whether to change course.
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From wikipedia:
The NKVD photo of Babel
made after his arrest (July 13, 1894 – January 27, 1940) was a Soviet journalist, playwright, and short story writer.
Early years
Born to a Jewish family in Odessa during a period of social unrest and mass exodus of Jews from the Russian Empire, Isaac Babel survived the 1905 pogrom with the help of Christian neighbors who hid his family, but his grandfather Shoyl was one of about 300 Jews murdered.
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