Word: broking
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...most notorious incidents of the Iraq war is still being tried in court. In March 2006 TIME broke the story of a November 2005 encounter involving U.S. Marines in Haditha, Iraq, that left 24 civilians dead. Since then, three officers have been stripped of their titles, while three others have been issued letters of censure. Four more face trial. Charges against four others have been dropped...
...always thought that if he could survive a primary, he would be a phenomenal general-election candidate," says John Weaver, McCain's onetime political strategist, who broke with the campaign last summer. "The Democrats will be on the defensive if John runs the kind of campaign that I know he wants...
...protest turned deadly when several hundred hooded protesters broke away from that 500,000-strong crowd. The smaller group hurled rocks and molotov cocktails at the Croatian and U.S. embassies. Flames licked up to the second floor of the old brick building which is located in the heart of the capital. Serbian paramilitary police, arriving in Humvees, dispersed the crowd using tear gas. But firefighters later discovered a charred body in a lower room. The embassy had been largely empty at the time and it was not immediately clear whether the body was that of a protester or an embassy...
...after the attack, as the Argentines launched a mopping-up operation against 22 marines on the island of South Georgia, the full storm of recrimination broke over the Thatcher government. In the first emergency weekend sitting of Parliament since the Suez Canal crisis of 1956, both the opposition Labor Party and even many Conservative backbenchers called for the resignation of Foreign Secretary Carrington, Defense Secretary Nott, the man ultimately responsible for British military preparedness, and of Thatcher herself...
...overwhelmingly Muslim region. Christians have lived in Iraq almost since the beginning of Christianity itself, and though they presumably fell in love and married just like everyone else for centuries, love became something of a cottage industry in Ankawa after the first Gulf war. When the Kurdistan broke away from Saddam Hussein's Iraq, the town became a hub for single Christian men living abroad who could now return in search of a mate just like...