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BORN to PRIVATE FIRST CLASS LYNNDIE ENGLAND, 21, U.S. soldier seen holding a leash in some of the most notorious photographs from Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, and Specialist Charles Graner Jr., 36, also shown in prison photographs; a son; in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The parents are among seven reservists charged in connection with abuse at the prison late last year. The West Virginia mother is scheduled to stand trial in January on charges that carry a maximum sentence of 38 years. NAMED PRINCE NORODOM SIHAMONI, 51, former ballet dancer and son of ex-King Norodom Sihanouk, who abdicated...
...intelligence suggests are 200 to 500 rebels is thought to be made up of local Baathists and former military officers fighting for a return of a Sunni-dominated government or national liberation. The rest are foreign jihadis and hard-core Iraqi Islamists heeding the call of terrorist leaders like Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi. For weeks, the al-Zarqawi fighters had made their presence in the city known. Only two days before the attack, there were reports of armed men roaming the city under the group's telltale black-and-yellow banners, stopping traffic and seizing music cassettes, which they consider...
...stage-managed the Iraq war like the patriarchal paragon of an earlier era, flouting his rigid style as not only the best way to maintain rule of the roost, but also the only appropriate one. Wielding a firm hand and a tight leash (literally, in the case of Abu Ghraib), the Bush administration has been crystal clear about its house rules: dissent is disregarded (and, in some cases, ridiculed); information is routinely withheld; and input from members of our global family deemed bothersome...
...mistaken." Ending Taliban rule in Afghanistan reduced the flow of al-Qaeda-trained terrorists into Southeast Asia, Downer points out. On the other hand, Labor's Christmas troop pullout from Iraq "would give an enormous propaganda victory to the terrorists, not just in Iraq but elsewhere, including Southeast Asia." Abu Baker Bashir, the alleged leader of J.I., said last month that "it would be better if Australian troops pulled out" of Iraq...
...East if all Arabs were to convert to Christianity? Would Palestinians have more positive feelings about being dispossessed if they were all Christians? Would Iraqis feel better about years of crippling sanctions and bombing if they were of another faith? Would they look more kindly upon the torturers at Abu Ghraib? No. Palestinians and Iraqis would be committing the same violence but perhaps using biblical verses to justify it. Rather than analyzing the holy books of each religion, it would be more productive to address the social, economic and political reasons that motivate people to commit violent acts...