On Friday morning, the colonel returned to the staging area, where his staff had set up a forward command post -- a tent and a series of antennas in the compound yard of an abandoned three-room house with barrel-vault ceilings made of mud brick.

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Qatar has also positioned itself as a bridge between East and West, successfully wooing not only the U.S. military's Central Command forward headquarters, but also top U.S. universities such as Northwestern and Virginia Commonwealth to set up shop in the emirate.

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Four buttons arrayed in a circle bring up the command menu, play and pause songs, and shift forward and back.

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There is a growing consensus among Republicans, not to mention Democrats, that another failure like last summer's Operation Forward Together will tear the fabric of trust between the Bush and al-Maliki command centers.

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But if Tim Cook wants to move Apple forward and carry on in its innovative traditions, he needs to take an important lesson in command from Commander William T.

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Mr. McDonough completed his visit by meeting with military personnel in Regional Command-East and Regional Command-South, to hear their perspective on the challenges they face as we move forward, including the recent troubling trend of insider attacks and the mitigation steps being taken against them.

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Last month the government said it would bring forward to the autumn other measures planned by Labour requiring many immigrants marrying UK citizens to prove they have a command of English.

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