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Even if they can be found, faithful Iraqi recruits are proving difficult to retain. Iraqi commanders working alongside the American forces walk a dangerous line, trying to convince their neighbors they are patriots, not traitors. Painted on a concrete blast wall outside Marine headquarters at Camp Fallujah is a portrait of Lieut. Colonel Suleiman Hamad al-Marawi, a former commander of the Fallujah-based 506th Battalion of the U.S.-backed Iraqi Civil Defense Corps (ICDC). Last month al-Marawi was kidnapped with another Iraqi lieutenant colonel when insurgents overran two Iraqi army positions. Six days later, his body was found...
...before becoming a star when Curb Records finally took a chance on him in 1992. But McGraw is still somehow greater than the sum of his songs, in large part because, while his message can appear calculated, his charisma is authentic. In concert, when he gets a chance to blast his exuberant Everydudeness to the back row, he can make even the most conventional music seem inspirational. He has, as TIME's Joe Klein wrote in frustration and admiration of Clinton in The Natural, the "ability to charm almost anyone under any circumstances...
...exploded at the entrance of Australia's heavily fortified embassy in Jakarta Sept. 9, it rattled what had been a fairly pedestrian election campaign. Whether it was timed to unnerve Australian voters, influence the Sept. 20 Indonesian presidential election or mark the third anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the blast and its victims - including a gravely injured five-year-old Australian girl - skittled economic analysis off the front pages...
...whether Howard's Liberal-National government or Latham's Labor opposition could better protect the country, 50% of voters polled favored the Coalition and 26% Labor. When he was elected Opposition leader last December, Latham trailed the P.M. on that question 21% to 58%. A few days before the blast, and six months after he promised Labor would withdraw Australian troops from Iraq by this Christmas, a Newspoll found confidence in Latham's ability to protect Australia had risen...
...contentious plan to bring home the troops still in Iraq hadn't been prominent in Latham's campaign before the blast; now, says pollster Rod Cameron, it's a discussion he'll find impossible to avoid. "The political argument will come back to that: Have you changed your mind about the troops? What about Spain?" Labor has long argued that having troops in Iraq has made Australia more of a target and damaged regional goodwill and cooperation against terrorism. Howard has painted Labor's plan as a cop-out in a necessary war, though his deputy, National Party leader John...