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...female than ever - today's soldiers are not only allowed to be married to one another; those serving together in Iraq are being allowed to live together. Early reports (the policy change happened quietly in May 2006, but only became public this week in an AP dispatch from Baghdad) suggests it helps marriages and morale - and maybe even keeps those sharing a private trailer in uniform longer. It's just one example of a kinder, gentler military's concern to avoid driving soldiers out of uniform by burdening them and their families with rules ill-suited to 21st century warfare...
...Iraqi military's offensive in Basra was supposed to demonstrate the power of the central government in Baghdad. Instead it has proven the continuing relevance of anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. Sadr's militia, the Mahdi Army, stood its ground in several days of heavy fighting with Iraqi soldiers backed up by American and British air power. But perhaps more important than the manner in which the militia fought is the manner in which it stopped fighting. On Sunday Sadr issued a call for members of the Mahdi Army to stop appearing in the streets with their weapons...
...last August. That allowed the Maliki government and the Americans to do the dirty work of clearing Sadr's militia of unsavory - and unpopular - criminal elements. But then the coalition began to round up more and more legitimate Sadr lieutenants, perhaps precipitating some of last week's confrontation in Baghdad. One of Sadr's principal demands when he met with the delegation of Shi'ite political leaders to discuss the new cease-fire was that more of his forces be released under the amnesty law. This was to appease his disgruntled followers whose brothers and uncles are the ones behind...
...Maupin was a 20-year-old private first class when he was captured on April 9, 2004, after his fuel convoy was attacked west of Baghdad. "It really hurts," his mother said. "You go through four years of hope...
...television, an Iraqi government spokesman hailed the announcement as a "positive statement," but it was not yet clear Sunday evening if militants would stand down. Throughout the afternoon and into the evening rockets or mortars continued to sail into the heavily fortified Baghdad headquarters of the U.S. embassy and the Iraqi government. A spokesman for the British military said that Iraqi requests for U.S. and British support in Basra had subsided but confirmed that more U.S. air strikes had been launched on Sunday...