The network said today that it has deployed seventy-four anchors, correspondents and producers to the region "to offer unprecedented round-the-clock coverage" of the disaster. (...)

"Ever since Sept. 11, the demand for global news has soared," said Jon Klein, CNN/US president. "As our coverage of the tsunami disaster demonstrates, our network is uniquely qualified and positioned to satisfy that demand with an international news operation that runs round the clock. Our producers, anchors and correspondents offer relevant, human reports of survival, suffering and heroism as only CNN can provide."

Under the plans, troops would funnel Fallujans to so-called citizen processing centers on the outskirts of the city to compile a database of their identities through DNA testing and retina scans. Residents would receive badges displaying their home addresses that they must wear at all times. Buses would ferry them into the city, where cars, the deadliest tool of suicide bombers, would be banned. (...) One idea (...) would require all men to work, for pay, in military-style battalions. Depending on their skills, they would be assigned jobs in construction, waterworks, or rubble-clearing platoons. (...) boston globe: Returning Fallujans will face clampdown