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March 9 was a beautiful, sunny Southern California Sunday, with tip-off at 12:30: Lakers vs. 76ers at Staples. Nearly 19,000 in attendance. A match between Kobe and Iverson, a test of Shaq's returning game. CAMP 93, Kuwait – Navy construction battalions are finalizing plans to quickly build camps in Iraq for thousands of Iraqi prisoners of war, in an effort that is also designed to keep Saddam Hussein from being able to claim that captured soldiers are being mistreated ... Using aerial reconnaissance and other intelligence, Navy Seabees have already picked tentative locations for POW camps, although those plans could...

CAMP 93, Kuwait Feb. 14 ? While other military units train for tank battles and air assaults in Iraq, Navy Seabees are laying concrete and refreshing their bridge-building skills.The Seabees, the Navy's construction force, may not be front-line soldiers, but their role paving roads and building bridges for tanks and Humvees in hostile territory may be nearly as important in the event of war in Iraq."We're here to support the force," said Naval Capt. William Rudich, commander of the 30th Naval Construction Regiment, based at Camp 93 in northern Kuwait.The Seabees whose name comes from a play on Construction Battalion,...