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NBC's Richard Engel is usually stationed in Baghdad but he took time off from war to file one of those periodic gee-whiz travelogues on boom times in the Persian Gulf. This is Engel's piece on Abu Dhabi. Here is Anthony Mason on CBS last month from Kuwait. ABC sent Bill Weir to Dubai last year. CBS' Pentagon correspondent David Martin updated us on the cost of war on the home front. He told us that disabled combat casualties fail to receive expedited military healthcare because the army's Warrior Transition Units, which were designed to be their first line of treatment, are being used by general patients too. There are 35 WTUs set up worldwide and about half of their caseload consists of non-combat cases.
Andrew Tyndall 7/29/08 9:41:12 pm

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