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America, shaken, retains memories
BYCLEVE R. WOOTSON JR.
STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
Everybody who comes into
Armond Flood’s office is a patriot.
The U.S. Navy petty officer grad
uated from recruiting school 10
days after the Sept, ll terrorist
attacks.
He was shipped immediately to
the Navy’s recruiting office in
Raleigh, where in a year, he put 50
bodies into the nation’s sea-based
fleet.
That number, the highest in the
state that year, garnered him a pro
motion and three awards that hang
behind the desk where he speaks
with potential recruits.
Flood says he still believes in
patriots, but not as many come
into his office now.
More than two years have
passed since the attacks that
rocked America, and Saturday
marks the one-year anniversary of
the onset of U.S. military action in
Iraq.
The war and the once-imminent
threat of terrorist acts slowly has
crept to the back of Americans’
minds, said Richard Kohn, chair
man of UNC’s curriculum on
peace, war and defense.
“A lot of other things look more
threatening, like the lack of jobs or
the fact that our wives are griping
at us constantly or the price of
gasoline ... approaching $2 a gal
lon,” Kohn said.
Violence mars Iraq 1 year later
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD, Iraq More vio
lence struck Iraq ahead of the
anniversary of the start of the U.S.-
led war that ousted Saddam
Hussein: a deadly car bomb explod
ed Thursday in a southern city,
three Iraqi journalists were killed in
a drive-by shooting and three U.S.
soldiers perished in mortar attacks.
The suicide car bombing
occurred near a hotel in Basra as a
British military patrol passed by,
killing two men and a boy in addi
tion to the bomber. A man who got
out of the car before the blast was
stabbed to death by passers-by.
The Iraqi journalists were killed
as they drove to work at a
coalition-funded television station
in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of
Baghdad. Nine other employees of
Diyala TV were wounded in the
attack on their minibus, said Sanaa
al-Daghistani, the station’s infor
mation director.
Rebels often target Iraqis per
ceived as collaborators with the
occupation.
The U.S. military, meanwhile,
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“There are things that are more
important to people on a day-to
day basis than whether they are
going to get blown up.”
Kohn said that with the excep
tion of Washington, D.C., and New
York City, a sense of crisis hasn’t
persisted in the United States.
“It’s just not the same,” he said.
“That sense of vulnerability is not
that acute. Other priorities have
displaced terrorism in the fore
front of public consciousness.”
Although the fire in the hearts
of many is dying, the strong
thoughts and poignant actions of
those who have been actively con
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wavered, said Jason Crawford,
president of Patriots for the
Defense of America, a nonparti
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against terrorism.
“If you look at the population at
large, I think the issue has died
down,” he said.
“Back in March (2003), you saw
all sorts of rallies for and against
the war. Now it’s sort of a done
deal.”
But the impact, and the change
in the nation’s psyche, is not gone
forever, Kohn said. It’s just harder
to find.
People still get butterflies when
they look at the New York skyline,
he said. They still get lumps in
their throats when they go through
lowered the death toll in a suicide
bombing at a Baghdad hotel on
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putting it at 27.
Late Thursday, insurgents tar
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Bourj al-Hayat Hotel in Baghdad
with several rockets and explosive
devices. There were no injuries. One
projectile created a hole in the sec
ond floor of the hotel, which some
times houses Kurdish politicians.
Sirens also wailed briefly in the
area housing the U.S.-led coalition
headquarters. A U.S. military offi
cial said that there had been an
attack and that it was under inves
tigation. There were no casualties.
It was unclear whether insur
gents were timing attacks to over
shadow the anniversary of the
March 20, 2003, start of the war
that toppled Hussein, though
assailants often have conducted
attacks on holidays and other sig
nificant dates.
The aim of anti-U.S. forces
appears to be demonstrating that
Iraq is ungovernable despite some
American progress in its nation
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David Solnit, chief organizer of
Direct Action to Stop the War, said
his group and others opposed to
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past year than in the past two
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“We’ve had hundreds of thou
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“People may not have changed
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Flood said he still remembers
sitting around the television with
his classmates in recruiting school,
watching the events of Sept. 11
unfold.
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But two years ago, with anew
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he had to put the tumultuous
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the task at hand.
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He might have been just a year
or two ahead of the rest of the
nation.
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Attacks spur UNC push
for bioterror research
BY NORA WARREN
STAFF WRITER
Since Sept 11 and the invasion of
Iraq, UNC researchers have
responded to national threats by
expanding current research focuses
to include security defenses.
The focus on developing vac
cines that once meant cures for
common diseases, for instance, is
now seen as a preventative meas
ure against intentional bioterror
ist attacks.
Money for such projects has
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National Institutes of Health. But
now the Department of Homeland
Security is earmarking funds from
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“Existing relationships with the
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Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Zeisel said his department has
long studied infectious diseases,
but now they are applying their
research for defense purposes.
The school is adding population
epidemiology to understand and
respond to the threats diseases such
as SARS and smallpox can pose.
UNC officials also are getting
involved in military support efforts.
The National Program for
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campus initiative that would pro
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and reserve military.
“What we’re looking to provide is
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(where a guard or reserve member
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Highway Safety Research Center,
who is working on the project.
Robertson said that because
these military members are in the
reserves and not on active duty,
often they do not live near bases,
where there is a high level of sup
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for research in security and
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