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...part of an implicit U.S. strategy to maximize "force protection"-that is, to limit casualties. In fact, there has been a fierce internal debate within the Army about whether to take the troops out of the FOBS and station them closer to the action in the urban neighborhoods of Baghdad. "If the strategy is to hunker down," Webb said. "We might as well have them hunkered down in safer places like Kuwait and Jordan, while keeping our special-ops forces and air support active in Iraq...
Reporters are taught to keep themselves out of the story, but sometimes the story gives you no choice. Michael went to Baghdad in 2003 to work on our Person of the Year package about the American soldier, where he joined writer Romesh Ratnesar, correspondent Brian Bennett and photographer Jim Nachtwey. Jim Kelly, my predecessor as managing editor, had asked for volunteers for the job and was pleased and relieved that a pro like Michael had signed up for duty. When a grenade landed in the back of his humvee on a routine patrol in Baghdad and Michael grabbed...
...losing a hand in Iraq with the stories of three soldiers who also spent time at Amputee Alley, Ward 57 of Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington. In this excerpt, the action begins on Dec. 10, 2003, as Weisskopf, 57 at the time, is on assignment in Baghdad, riding in the back of an open humvee along with TIME photographer James Nachtwey and two young soldiers, Private Orion Jenks and Private First Class Jim Beverly...
...Bush has called me worse things - tyrant, populist dictator, drug trafficker, to name a few," Chavez said. "I'm not attacking Bush; I'm simply counterattacking. Bush has been attacking the world, and not just with words - with bombs. I think the bombs he's unleashed on Baghdad or Lebanon do a lot more harm than any words spoken in the United Nations...
...stop speaking out of turn. The removed judge will likely be transferred to a court that meets outside the fortified Green Zone - where there will be no guarantee he will have the same level of security around him he has now, according to a senior Iraqi official. Traveling around Baghdad is extremely dangerous for any participants in the trial, especially those like Al-Amiri, whose face has been on television every day the trial was in session over the past three weeks. A number of lawyers and the families of witnesses involved in the proceedings against Saddam have been assassinated...