" Hatch told Freeh, "This concurrent grant of investigatory power authorizes you to exercise independent judgment in conducting criminal investigations.
With much local power at stake in the concurrent provincial-council elections, it seems likely that there will be pressure on the insurgents to refrain from attacks on polling stations.
The concurrent, rapid relocation to the Persian Gulf of roughly half the present U.S. Army's combat power deployed in Europe raises the stakes for such deliberations still further.