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...chat with TIME, noting that Kerry had been in North Carolina and Louisiana as recently as last week. Republicans dismissed those visits as track covering. One claimed that perhaps no more than six or seven states were up for grabs now--a third of the number in early August and a reversal of fortune from just a few weeks ago. --With reporting by Perry Bacon Jr., Massimo Calabresi and John F. Dickerson/Washington
...toll since sovereignty was returned to Iraq on June 28 has eclipsed the number killed in the invasion, and the total tally just passed 1,000. The wounded number more than 7,000. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld estimates that coalition forces killed up to 2,500 suspected insurgents in August, but the will of the rebels shows few signs of cracking. Attacks on U.S. troops increasingly come in the form of direct fire from small arms and suicide bombs, the tactics of a more sophisticated and in-your-face...
...gunmen pulled him over. Two white Oldsmobiles screeched around his Nissan pickup, and four men armed with AK-47 machine guns grabbed Hadi, blindfolded him and stuffed him into the trunk of a car. They drove him to a safe house in Fallujah, where, for five days in early August, he was tortured and interrogated by some of the insurgents who control the town. His captors, he says, beat his feet and legs with a pipe until he could no longer feel them, thrashed his back and tied his genitals before forcing him to drink three bottles of water...
Despite the risks, the Marines are determined to find Iraqis who are up to the job. About 2,000 Iraqis have been trained at India Base. But after the mujahedin overran two Iraqi battalions in early August, Collins was forced to piece together a new force from scratch. The recruits include the few remaining soldiers as well as deserters who are being invited back. (To emphasize the new start, the Americans have renamed the ICDC in Fallujah the Iraqi National Guard.) But it isn't easy bringing the Iraqis back. Although many are attracted by the money, and in some...
...been brokering meetings between ranchers and Masai elders. "The invasion of this land is illegal and the government is committed to protecting private properties," says Lands Minister Amos Kimunya. That position has led to several violent protests and the arrest of more than 100 since the invasions in August. In one incident, paramilitary police fired on a group of Masai just outside Lolldaiga Hills Ranch, killing an elderly man, Ntinai ole Moiyare, and wounding four others. The Masai feel they have no choice but to demonstrate. While they plan to take their case before an international court, their efforts...