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WORLD BRIEFING Isaac spins into New Orleans — Newly downgraded Tropical Storm Isaac plodded its way across Louisiana on Wednesday, inundating parts of a mostly rural area south- east of New Orleans, while in the city, on the seventh anniversary of Katrina, levees were so far holding. NEW ORLEANS (AP) ines Parish, officials res- cued dozens of people by boat after they became stranded by floodwaters. Authorities feared more could need help after a night of slashing rain and fierce winds that knocked out power to more than 700,000 households. The hurricane also can- celed commemoration ceremonies Wednesday for Katrina's 1,800 dead in Louisiana and Missis- sippi. In hard-hit Plaquem- Thursday, August 30, 2012 – Daily News 5A combined with the mili- tary's struggle to fight on multiple fronts — have yielded a stalemate that could prolong the civil war with many more dead. Over the past few months, Syria's military has increasingly been stretched thin fighting on multiple fronts against rebels seeking to oust Assad. His forces have been unable to quell the rebellion as it spread to the capital, Damascus, with significant clashes that began in July and to Syria's largest city, Alep- po, a few weeks later. At the same time, the mili- tary is fighting smaller scale battles in a string of other cities and towns around the country. With neither side mak- ing significant advances, the conflict is looking more like a war of attri- tion that could be very drawn out. ''We are fighting a Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said officials were considering using a back- hoe to cut a hole in a levee on the east bank of Plaquemines Parish to relieve pressure on the structure, something they have during Katrina and Hurricane Gustav in 2008. Jindal said there was no estimate on when that decision would be made; it was still too dan- gerous to venture out. Plaquemines Parish also ordered a mandatory evacuation for the west bank of the Mississippi River below Belle Chasse, affecting about 3,000 peo- ple in the area, including a nursing home with 112 residents. VP running mate Paul regional and global war, so time is needed to win it,'' Assad said in an inter- view with the pro-regime private TV station Dunya. ''We are moving forward. The situation is practical- ly better but it has not been decided yet. That takes time,'' he told the station, which is majority owned by Rami Makhlouf, a cousin of Assad and one of Syria's wealthiest men. Ryan's turn TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan took his party's national convention spot- light Wednesday night as Republicans sought to turn the White House campaign back to the sluggish economy. He was accepting the vice presidential nomination at a gathering struggling for attention as Tropical Storm Isaac cast a pall from the nearby northern Gulf Coast. rats, who open their own convention on Tuesday to nominate Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden for a second term. Deep into a two-week stretch of national gather- ings, the race for the White House is in a sort of political black hole where the day-to-day polls matter little if at all as voters sort through their impressions. Oppressive or secure? TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — shuffle from air-condi- tioned offices into the steamy outdoors, past palm trees that sag under the oppressive humidity and through the city's lush green parks. Book on Osama bin Laden raid lifts veil on US special In a secondary role if only for a moment, presi- dential candidate Mitt Romney accused Democ- ratic President Barack Obama of backing ''reck- less defense cuts'' amounting to $1 trillion. ''There are plenty of places to cut in a federal budget that now totals over $3 trillion. But defense is not one of them,'' Romney said in remarks that referred elliptically to the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Romney spoke to the American Legion in Indi- anapolis as his aides in Florida scripted an econo- my-and-veterans-themed program in their own con- vention hall and kept a wary eye on Isaac. The storm, downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm, was threatening levees in the New Orleans area almost exactly seven years after the calamitous Hurricane Katrina. Romney delivers his own nationally televised acceptance speech Thurs- day night in the final act of his own convention. The political attention then shifts to the Democ- Over 25 years of experience The North State's premier supplier of stoves STOVE JUNCTION It's HOT now! But don't get left out in the 5A>6! 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Former SEAL Matt Bissonnette's account contradicted in key details the account of the raid presented by administra- tion officials in the days after the May 2011 raid in Abbotabad, Pakistan, that killed the al-Qaida leader, and raised questions about whether the SEALs followed to the letter the order to only use deadly force if they deemed him a threat. operations WASHINGTON (AP) book, ''No Easy Day,'' under the pseudonym Mark Owen as one of the men in the room when they killed bin Laden. The book is to be published next week by Penguin Group (USA)'s Dutton imprint. The Associated Press purchased a copy Tuesday. During a normal August, downtown Tampa is a bit sleepy. Workers Bissonnette wrote that the SEALs spotted bin Laden at the top of a dark- ened hallway and shot him in the head even though they could not tell whether he was armed. 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