Friday, September 11, 2009 WASHINGTON: The US Coast Guard, on high alert for the anniversary of the September 11 attacks, fired 10 rounds on a suspicious boat on the US capital's Potomac River, a US news channel reported Friday.It was not immediately clear if the boat posed any danger to Washington, as President Barack Obama for the first time led ceremonies to mark the eighth anniversary of the attacks.The vessel was challenged in a restricted part of the river, adjacent to the Pentagon where Obama was attending a ceremony to mark the 2001 attacks, the channel said.Contacted by a foreign news agency the coast guard said they could not immediately confirm the incident, and were checking the details. Police declined any comment saying they were not handling the situation.
BAGHDAD: Nearly 500 U.S. Army combat engineers who specialize in clearing roads of explosives started shifting to southern Afghanistan."We are probably going to be the beginning of the influx you are going to see to Afghanistan," Lt. Col. Kevin Landers, commander of the Fort Carson, Colo.-based 4th Engineer Battalion, said as crews packed crates and cleaned vehicles for the flight to Kandahar.Obama has ordered 17,000 more U.S. soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan to bolster the 38,000 American troops already battling the resurgent Taliban."We are going to take this footprint out of Iraq," said Landers, whose battalion received word of its reassignment last month just after taking command of clearing roads in Baghdad of bombs and debris.
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