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6A Daily News – Friday, September 9, 2011 WORLD BRIEFING Kuwait as staging ground for Iraq force next year WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administra- tion is considering staging American troops in Kuwait next year as a backup or rotational training force for Iraq, after the Pentagon completes the scheduled withdrawal of its current 45,000-strong force from Iraq in December, U.S. offi- cials said. The proposal, not yet publicly announced, is among a number of options the administration is consid- ering for extending its mili- tary training role in still-vio- lent Iraq, whose divided government has been reluc- tant to directly ask Wash- ington to keep troops on its soil beyond this year. All troops are to depart Iraq by Dec. 31 under a 2008 security agreement, but senior U.S. officials are concerned that without more training the Iraqi forces may squander hard- won security gains. The Iraqi army, for example, is only now taking delivery of U.S. battle tanks, on which they have yet to be trained. Iraq's security forces are improving but still lack the capability to fully defend Iraqi air space, borders and territorial waters, U.S. mili- tary officers say. ''There are some gaps in their military capabilities, their security capabilities, that we believe we could offer some assistance with,'' Navy Capt. John Kirby, a spokesman for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Thurs- day. Discussions with the Iraqis on this are in an early stage, Kirby added. Nearly 100K told to evacuate in Northeast WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — Nearly 100,000 ordered to evacuate their homes were about 80 miles downstream in Wilkes-Barre, where the river was projected to crest later Thursday at 41 feet — the same height as the levee system, officials said. Residents were ordered to leave by 4 p.m. GOP race is suddenly people from New York to Maryland were ordered to flee the rising Susquehan- na River on Thursday as the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee dumped more rain across the Northeast, closing major highways and socking areas still recovering from Hurri- cane Irene. At Binghamton, N.Y., the wide river broke a flood record and flowed over retaining walls downtown as more than 8 inches of rain fell in some areas. Road closures effectively sealed the city off to outside traffic as emergency responders scrambled to evacuate holdouts who didn't heed warnings to leave neigh- borhoods. ''It's going to get worse,'' said Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who urged residents to heed evacuate orders rather than wait until the flood danger is obvious. ''By the time it looks that bad, you won't be able to leave, so leave and leave now,'' he said. Most of the people Saturday Sept. 10th Tom & Fran Leftwich One lucky child will win a Skateboard, Helmet & Kneepads Friday, Sept. 9th Must be present to win Gold Exchange 17 years old • 4:30 Kids up to down to two The GOP presidential contest has quickly nar- rowed to a two-man race. As Rick Perry and Mitt Romney jockey over their ability to defeat President Barack Obama, there are deepening fault lines between the two on Social Security, immigration, jobs and more that could shape the contest. Their stylistic differ- ences are as stark as their disagreements on sub- stance. Romney, the for- mer Massachusetts gover- nor, also is a former ven- ture capitalist who is at his best when he's talking about how to help busi- nesses help the economy grow. Perry, the Texas governor, is a fiery, red- meat conservative who has already shown he loves to go on the attack — and isn't afraid to go after his chief GOP rival. Those contrasts have driven Romney's cam- paign to fundamentally change a strategy that was previously aimed square- ly at Obama. Until Perry jumped into the race and almost immediately dis- placed Romney as the front-runner, the former Massachusetts governor focused his public appear- ances and messaging on the president. Now, instead of run- ning a general election campaign in primary sea- son, Romney will spend the early months trying to convince Republicans that Perry can't beat Obama in November. It will start with Social Security, an issue Rom- ney's campaign has decided is Perry's biggest liability. 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It's possible the high court could rule on the issue by June 2012, in the midst of Obama's re-elec- tion bid. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ignored the core issue of whether the law can require that indi- viduals buy health insur- ance or pay a penalty start- ing in 2014. In the lawsuit filed by Liberty Universi- ty, the court ruled that the penalty amounted to a tax — and that a tax can't be challenged before it's col- lected. The panel said the state of Virginia lacked legal standing to file its lawsuit. Three federal appeals courts have now weighed in on lawsuits filed over the law, and both oppo- nents and advocates say the overhaul will ultimate- ly be reviewed by the Supreme Court. A deci- sion by the 6th U.S. Cir- cuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati upholding the law already has been appealed. 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Files reveal 9/11 horror from the sky NEW YORK (AP) — Newly posted audio files depict the horror of 9/11 unfolding in the sky, as air traffic controllers struggled to follow the faint tracks of hijacked planes, fighter jets tried in vain to chase them down and a flight attendant made a desperate appeal for help. The sound files add a layer of emotion to previ- ously published transcripts, as puzzlement and frustra- tion seeps into the voices of controllers, military com- manders, and even pilots watching the attacks from the sky. There are shouting and ringing phones in the background — the sound- track, usually omitted from written transcripts, of a nation suddenly at war. In one chilling excerpt, screaming and a shouted ''Hey!'' is heard over the radio as hijackers storm the cockpit of United Flight 93. That's followed by a strange, strained cry. Stunned controllers and other pilots discuss the sounds, trying to make sense of what they heard. ''No dry words on a page can capture that; you really have to hear it,'' said John Farmer, dean of the Rutgers University School of Law and former senior counsel to the government's 9/11 Commission. The sound files were posted online Wednesday, just days before the 10th anniversary of the attacks, to accompany a monograph published by the Rutgers University Law Review. The release was first report- ed by The New York Times. Libya's rulers dedicate unit to hunt down Gadhafi TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Determined to hunt down Moammar Gadhafi, Libya's new rulers say they have dedicated a special unit of fighters to track the elusive former leader, listen- ing in on his aides' phone calls, poring over satellite images and interviewing witnesses. Although leads come mostly from on-the-ground tips, help is also coming from France and other Western countries, accord- ing to a French intelligence official. Satellite-based transmission intercepts of suspicious phone calls try to pinpoint where Gadhafi might be. Small CIA teams are also assisting in the manhunt, according to for- mer U.S. officials. Gadhafi, who hasn't been seen in public for months, went underground after anti-regime fighters swept into Tripoli on Aug. 21. Capturing the ousted ruler would allow the for- mer rebels to seal their grip on the country and shut the door on the possibility of Gadhafi's inspiring an insurgency against the new leaders. After more than four decades under his authori- tarian rule, Libyans are haunted by the question of Gadhafi's whereabouts, and the country has been awash with rumors that have put him everywhere from deep in a bunker under Tripoli to safe in exile in neighboring Niger or Algeria. 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