The famous battle offers lessons for us 60 years later. BY ARTHUR HERMAN Saturday, February 19, 2005 12:01 a.m. EST Sixty years ago today, more than 110,000 Americans and 880 ships began their assault on a small volcanic island in the Pacific, in the climactic battle of the last year…
We got Zarqawi and now the Russians got Shamil Basayev. Who is Shamil Basayev? For those of you who might not know, he was one of the world’s worst and evil men, a Chechen warlord terrorist who was responsible for the deaths of hundreds if not thousands of innocent victims….