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In the meantime, Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is pushing to move as many additional resources to Afghanistan as possible, including remote-controlled airplanes to gather intelligence, helicopters to move troops faster, and intelligence specialists ? all things the military calls ?enablers? ? to stretch limited resources. --Gordon Lubold - Christian Science Monitor AFGHANISTAN Joint Chiefs Head: ?Enablers? Needed in Troop-scarce Afghanistan - Gordon Lubold, Christian

IRAQ Sunni Insurgents Targeted - Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post US and Iraqi forces launched a new offensive in the restive province of Diyala, targeting Sunni insurgents who have turned lush farmlands northeast of Baghdad into one of the toughest regions to pacify since the US-led invasion. On Tuesday morning, the Iraqi military tightened security around Baqubah, the provincial capital, imposing an indefinite vehicle curfew. Iraqi soldiers and police searched houses but faced no resistance,