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Meanwhile, U.S. Army officials canceled the $327 million contract to supply Iraqi forces with equipment, such as body armor and weapons, after they concluded "ambiguities" in the contract's language might expose the U.S. government to legal challenges from losing bidders. Major General Charles Swannack Jr., commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, says that when his troops left Iraq in January, the Iraqis under their command were still waiting for their gear. "It never came on my watch," he says. Testifying before Congress last week, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz blasted Washington "bureaucracy" for the Iraqis' lack of firepower...
...their way to Baghdad and didn't even pass through Sunni-dominated Fallujah--it has allowed the insurgency to fester. The Marines came to the Euphrates River town last month hoping to show a kinder face to residents than they had experienced at the hands of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division. But after the slaughter of four American contractors in Fallujah early this month, U.S. commanders decided to reclaim the city. Last Monday about 1,500 Marines of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force and some Army special forces--along with 2,000 Iraqi security troops and about...
Jerry Zovko was muscle for hire, and he plied his trade, private security, in a place that for Americans is perhaps the most dangerous in the world. Zovko joined the Army in 1992, serving in the 82nd Airborne Division and qualifying for the Ranger corps. After tours of duty in Bosnia and Kuwait, he left the Army in 2001 and worked as a bodyguard for executives in Dubai. But Zovko, friends say, still yearned for adventure and the chance to make a difference in the world. As an employee of Blackwater USA, a private company hired by the Pentagon...
...town's unstable, dangerous condition. Fallujah has had six commanders in the 12 months since the end of the war. At first, troops were a visible presence in the city, routinely patrolling on foot. But after making deals with the local sheiks last winter, troops from the 82nd Airborne Division pulled back to a base 5 miles from the city center. While the retreat protected U.S. forces from attacks, it allowed criminals and ex-regime loyalists to have the run of the place. The city's chronic violence also dissuaded reconstruction workers and relief agencies from venturing in, fueling local...
...Affairs, she insisted that the "Clinton Administration has assiduously avoided implementing an agenda" that "separates the important from the trivial." In an interview with the New York Times just before the election, she dismissed Clinton's affection for peacekeeping by stating that "we don't need to have the 82nd Airborne escorting kids to kindergarten." The Bush team, says Scowcroft, had a sense that "if the Clinton Administration did it, it was suspect," though Scowcroft says that in Washington attitudes like that are "standard procedure...