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■ Butofficials That’s thefewestsince 1,683 Maj. RogerCabiness, a U.S. CentralCommand dis- forces as they prepared for fightingvehicles, makesit last June andreflects acon- Department of Defense close howmanybombs are thesuccessful campaign difficultfor U.S. aircraft to saycampaign tinuingdecline from apeak spokesman. Intelligence dropped in itsdaily sum- to retake Ramadithatbe- accuratelyacquire targets,” of 3,227weapons dropped in gathered through recon- mary of targetsstruck. ganlatethatmonth, Chris he said.That’sbeencom- accelerating November.Apartialcease- naissance sorties“enables WhilePentagonofficials Harmer,ananalyst forthe poundedbyalackofU.S. firewentintoeffect in Syria thecoalition to become in- have said that theU.S.in- Washington-based Institute ground personnelfunc- By Tony Capaccio on Feb. 27,but that agreement creasingly effective at strik- ventoryofsmart bombs has forthe Study of Warsaidin tioningastargetspotters, BloombergNews(TNS) doesn’tcover attacksonIs- ingstrategic targetsthatput declined,Cabinesssaidthat anemail. “If/when thelong- he said. lamicState,orISIL,targets. intensepressure on”the hasn’taffected thepace of rumoredassaultonMosul Republicanpresidential WASHINGTON— TheU.S.and WhileDefense Secre- militants, he said viaemail. bombing. commences, those numbers candidateSen.Ted Cruz itsallieslastmonthdropped tary AshCarterhas said Thedecline in munitions “Westriketargets when will spikeagain.” has called formore inten- thefewestbombs on Islam- thedrive againstIslamic hasn’tbeenmentioned pub- andwhere we findthem,” TheU.S.has dropped sive airattacks on Islamic ic Stategroup targetsinIraq Stateisgainingmomentum, liclybyPentagonand Air Cabiness said.“Therewill fewermunitions persortie State. At onepoint,hecalled andSyria sinceJune, even some Republican presiden- Forceofficials.They have be periodsoftimewhen againstIslamic Statetar- for“carpet-bombing,” though defenseofficials say tialcandidateshavebeen focused on themore than thesenumbers vary be- gets than in anyoperation whichU.S.militaryofficials thecampaigntodefeatthe callingfor more intensive 55,000 combat sortiesflown causeoffactors such as since theColdWar ended said impliesindiscriminate terroristgrouphas been ac- bombing. sincethe U.S.-ledair cam- weather, requirements for becausethiscampaign“has bombingthatwould kill celerating. Thenumberof“weapons paignagainst IslamicState strike packages andthe been extremelydifficult to innocent civilians. Donald U.S.-ledforcesdropped dropped does notnecessar- beganoverIraqinAugust number of availabletar- prosecute”Harmer said. Trumphas said as presi- 2,054munitions last month, ilyprovide a1-to-1correla- 2014,atotal that includes gets.” Maneuveringin“small dent he would“bomb the down from 2,694inJanuary tion fortotal pressure being reconnaissance andsurveil- Thesurge of munitions groups of dismountedin- hell outofISIS,”using an and3,139inDecember, ac- applied” againstIslamic lance flights andaerialre- in November mayhavere- fantry,largely unsupport- acronymfor theterrorist cordingtoAir Forcedata. State, accordingtoArmy fuelingmissions. Nordoes flected airsupportfor Iraq ed by artillery, tanks, and group. U.S. student gets 15 yearsinN.Korea Texasgovernorto ■ 21-year-oldis visitflooded area accusedoftrying By TheAssociatedPress bottom of a40-foot spill- to stealabanner way. ORANGE,Texas— Gov. Greg Officialssay thebod- By JonCholJin Abbott praised emergency iesofaman andawoman andEricTalmadge personnelwho have coor- were locatedTuesday Associated Press dinatedthe evacuation of in theSan JacintoRiver, thousandsofpeoplefrom whichhours earliertopped PYONGYANG,NorthKorea—NorthKorea’s flooded areasofSoutheast floodstage.The Lake highestcourt sentencedanAmerican Texas. Houstonspillwaynorth- touristto15years in prison with hard Abbott said during a east of Houstonhas buoys laborfor subversion on Wednesday, newsconference Wednes- warningabout thedrop. weeksafter authoritiespresented him dayinOrangethatemer- TheTexas Parks& to mediaand he tearfullyconfessedhe gencycoordination among Wildlife Departmenton hadtried to stealapropagandabanner. localand stateagencies Wednesdaysaidhighwa- OttoWarmbier, 21,aUniversity helped minimize dangers terfromlastweek’sheavy of Virginiaundergraduate, was to residents. He thanked rain likely wasafactorin convictedand sentencedinaone- Louisianaofficials forcon- theaccident. Spokesman hourtrial in NorthKorea’s Supreme AssociAted Press tributingtothe emergency TomHarvey said there’s Court. North Koreasentenced American otto Warmbier,21, aUniversity of Virginia under- effort. usuallylittleornowater TheU.S.governmentcondemned graduate, from Wyoming, ohio, to 15 yearsinprisonwithhardlaborfor subversion. He warned that theSa- goingoverthe spillway thesentence andaccused NorthKo- bine Rivercould continue andevidencepointstothe reaofusing such American detainees betweenthe U.S. andSouthKoreathat public treatmentofthese casesthat to rise foranother dayor boat goingover. as politicalpawns. theNorth sees as adress rehearsalfor theDPRKdoes exactlythat,”Toner twosopeoplemuststill Harvey said atrailer Thecourt said Warmbier hadcom- invasion. told reporters, referringtothe North heed evacuation orders. foundparkedabove the mitted acrime “pursuanttothe U.S. PresidentBarackObama on by itsofficialname, theDemocratic TheOrangeCounty spillway wasregisteredto government’shostile policytoward(the Wednesdayimposednew U.S. sanc- People’s Republic of Korea. emergencymanagement awoman believed to be a North),inabid to impair theunity of tionsonNorth Koreainresponseto Warmbier’s family in Wyoming, office didnot have esti- victim.Names of thevic- itspeopleafter entering it as atourist.” what theWhite Housecalled“illicit” Ohio,could notbereached forcom- matesonhow many peo- tims weren’timmediately NorthKorearegularly accuses nuclear andballistic missiletests. ment. SusannaMax,aspokeswoman plehavebeendisplacedin released. Washington andSeoulof sendingspies U.S. StateDepartmentspokesman forWyoming City Schools, said last thecounty, butsaidabout JoeMires,spokesman to overthrow itsgovernmenttoenable Mark Tonerurged NorthKoreatopar- monththatthe district,where Otto 9,100peopleliveinthe forthe Orange County U.S.-backedSouth Koreatotakecon- don him andrelease him on humani- Warmbier attendedschool, hadbeen evacuatedareas. emergencymanagement trol of theKorean Peninsula. tariangrounds. in touchwiththe family.She said Twobodieshavebeen office,saidthe Sabine Riv- Tensionsare particularly high fol- “Despite official claims that U.S. Wednesdaythatthe district contin- recoveredfromarain- er couldrisebyanother 6 lowing NorthKorea’srecentnuclear citizens arrested in theDPRKare ues“to respecttheirprivacy”and de- swollenTexas riverafter inches near Interstate 10 test androcketlaunch, andmassive notused forpolitical purposes, it’s clines to comment. 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