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...onto the streets of Baghdad. But it didn't take long to realize that this was no routine mission. Minutes after Makwakwa's humvee pulled out of Camp Liberty last December, bad news crackled over the radio: a supply convoy of six 18-wheel trucks was ambushed at Checkpoint 50, a freeway cloverleaf that is a notorious shooting alley for insurgents. Makwakwa, a bright, fit New Orleans native, handles medical logistics for the U.S. 10th Mountain Division--the kind of deskbound job often assigned to women G.I.s. Now she found herself wearing a first-aid kit on her belt, gripping...
...drizzly Tuesday night, and six armed police are manning a checkpoint on one of the main access roads into seaside Cronulla, in Sydney's south. It works like this: an officer waves approaching cars to the side of the road, where an expressionless colleague with a torch takes over: "Hi. How are you? Where are you going?" There's a brief exchange, a license checked, whereupon the driver's either waved on or turned back. Nearly everyone is good-humored?some are clearly pleased to see the police out in force. But the officers are on edge...
Capturing three suspicious men carrying $600,000 at a checkpoint in the early days of the Iraq war might have seemed relatively simple to the Australian Special Air Service soldiers, who had been in the country for three weeks fighting Saddam Hussein's troops. But now the incident on the road from Baghdad to the Jordanian border on April 11, 2003, could bog the special forces in an ugly row. In August, international law expert Marc Henzelin filed a $1.5-million claim for compensation with the U.S. military for the alleged torture of two Iranian nationals, the suspected murder...
...Proton sedan with bullets, says al-Zubaidi's son-in-law, who arrived on the scene 10 minutes after the shooting and spoke with eyewitnesses. The son-in-law, Riyadh al-Janabi, says that moments before the murder, all five cars had passed unhindered through an Iraqi police checkpoint...
...Columbia Journalism Review and the New York Review of Books. The speech, entitled “The Glaring Gap in Press Coverage of Iraq,” explored the main areas that Massing said get little coverage in the press—including the U.S. military’s checkpoint strategy, the use of convoys, and the counter-insurgency strategy of the U.S. Massing, the author of “Now They Tell Us,” a collection of articles about the media’s coverage of the Iraq war, also discussed the effects that the press...