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...some insurgents capitalize on this. "Sometimes it's a conscious tactic of these people who meet to make sure there are kids playing in the compound so that they're seen, and that complicates your targeting methodology," General James Conway, commandant of the Marines, told reporters on Aug. 27. "This is a dirty game being played...
...military dismisses such tallies as exaggerated, and their provenance is often murky. In no case is it murkier than in the Aug. 22 strike on the western Afghan village of Azizabad. What is not in dispute is that U.S. special forces on the ground ordered an AC-130 gunship to attack at least two houses after they and their Afghan allies came under fire. The result of the attack, however, is far from certain. The Pentagon concluded that up to 35 insurgents and as many as seven civilians were killed. But the Afghan government, backed by a United Nations inquiry...
...Azizabad. "You can't have casualties and no end in sight," President Hamid Karzai told TIME recently. Senior U.S. officials agree. When military operations claim civilian lives, "it really does set us back," Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters on Aug. 28 while discussing the Azizabad operation. "So we work exceptionally hard to make sure that doesn't happen...
...pleasure of racing against Phil Hill--who died on Aug. 28 at age 81--in 1967 in Sebring, Fla. It was toward the end of his career and near the beginning of mine. He was behind me, challenging my Ford with his Chaparral. All of a sudden, I saw a cloud of smoke, and his car blew out. What a relief it was, because he was a relentless, versatile driver with a fantastic record of success...
...personal hero of mine and a founding mother of the modern lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender--rights movement, Dorothy (Del) Martin died Aug. 27 at the age of 87. Del's entire life was marked by moments of singular courage, intelligence and insight. She began as a journalist, studying at the University of California, Berkeley. She applied her vision and writing skills to activism, and she can be credited with some of the most transformative changes toward LGBT equality. Del's contributions include co-founding the nation's first lesbian organization--Daughters of Bilitis--and the first lesbian newspaper...