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...reporters and photographers have spread out over the theater of war--from the mountainous northeastern reaches of Kurdish Iraq to the heart of the U.S.-led assault on Baghdad to the cities and military bases in surrounding countries. Many of our journalists risk their lives daily to bring readers the story of Gulf War II. Here is what a few of them saw and heard in the course of their work...
This 25-year-old photographer picked up her first camera in high school and hasn't looked back. A journalistic veteran of last year's Afghan war, Brooks has been in northern Iraq for TIME since February and has covered, among other things, the assault by Kurds and U.S. Special forces on Ansar guerrillas. "The battle with Ansar was similar to Tora Bora" In Afghanistan, she observes. "The Ansar fighters were retreating into mountains, hiding in caves and breaking off into small groups...
...Prolonged tedium punctuated with moments of high excitement," is how TIME contributor Lacey describes traveling with the 101st Airborne. There was plenty of the latter last week, when Lacey witnessed 72 hours of fierce fighting during an assault on Najaf. Residents were initially suspicious of the invading troops, says Lacey, but "when they realized that the Americans were staying and that Saddam was gone, everything changed. The outpouring of support has been incredible...
This year, the issue of sexual assault on campus is a particularly charged, since the Leaning Committee—charged with issuing recommendations on Harvard’s sexual assault policy—is due to issue its report as early as this month...
...want to make our audiences aware of what is going on,” Honig said. “We feel that if the people were willing to come to the events, they’d also be interested in other sexual assault issues and particularly campus sexual assault issues...