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...outfit known as Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, wasn't new to Iraq last year when it moved into Haditha, a Euphrates River farming town about 150 miles northwest of Baghdad. Several members of the unit were on their second tour of Iraq; one was on his third. The men in Kilo Company were veterans of ferocious house-to-house fighting in Fallujah. Their combat experience seemed to prepare them for the ordeal of serving in an insurgent stronghold like Haditha, the kind of place where the enemy attacks U.S. troops from the cover of mosques, schools...
...Dean William C. Kirby—Menand helped to craft the program of general education that may eventually replace the Core. Boardman Professor of Fine Arts Irene J. Winter came to Harvard in 1995 and recently worked with international authorities to secure and preserve art pilfered from Baghdad museums following the American invasion. In the past, she has chaired the department of Fine Arts and served on the FAS Resources Committee. Emery Professor of Chemistry Eric N. Jacobsen has already served on the council this past year, in place of Loeb Professor of Chemistry Stuart L. Schreiber, who will leave...
...Gone is the ability to fall back on the familiar, sunny formulations like the one offered earlier this month by Major General Rick Lynch, spokesman for the coalition forces in Baghdad: "When a government is formed and truly reaches out to the people, we believe you'll see a great decline in violent activities in Iraq." Obviously, that hasn't happened yet. Even Bush himself seems to concede that the milestones he once lauded were mere chimera. "Terrorists did not lay down their arms after three elections in Iraq, and they will continue to fight this new government," Bush noted...
...starkest element in this heartbreaking story about Iraqi girls being kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery was the observation by a Western official in Baghdad who monitors the status of women in Iraq that sex trafficking was virtually nonexistent under Saddam. So was the violent persecution of Iraqi Christians, and so were terrorist attacks. Was regime change really necessary? Robert P. Waxman Cairo, New York...
...cabinet, Jabr has been made Finance Minister. "The message this sends to Iraqis is that incompetence is acceptable, even in the most crucial ministries," says a Western diplomat in Baghdad. "Any cabinet that has Bayan Jabr in a top position is starting with a huge credibility...