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...grounds that it needs to question them, but most of the interrogations are over. And it recently emerged that among the detainees are three boys from ages 13 to 15. The rules governing military tribunals allow the detainees at Guantanamo to have a free military lawyer or a civilian lawyer as long as the government doesn't have to pay for representation. But civilian lawyers willing to work for the detainees for free complain that the Pentagon has not allowed them to contact potential clients...
...presence of Republican Guard survivors, of course, did not preclude the possibility that thousands of their comrades were lying dead elsewhere. But the accounts of locals do not suggest a high death toll among the Republican Guard. In many places, civilian fatality rates were higher. In the temporary cemetery that Dawrah residents had dug in a grove of palm trees, there are 34 graves, but only six to 10, locals say, are for soldiers. In Mahmudiyah, Daoud Jassim, the hospital deputy director, says 50 bodies were brought to the hospital from fighting on April 3, but more than half were...
...military may have downplayed the extent of cluster-bomb use in Iraq. Amid reports last month of heavy casualties, Air Force General Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said only 26 cluster bombs had landed in civilian areas, resulting in one casualty. That estimate is hard to reconcile with accounts from hospitals, residents and civil-defense officials in Iraqi cities visited by TIME reporters...
...much of the country, the anarchy and looting also called forth its opposite - the remarkable solidarity and volunteer spirit among ordinary Iraqis eager to restore security and normalcy. Civilian volunteers direct traffic in a city with no traffic lights or rules. They protect their neighborhoods from looters and thieves, and have even used files found in the former security facilities to establish a database of Saddam's victims...
...drivers accompanied team owner Richard Childress on a five-day tour of U.S. bases in Spain, Germany, Sicily and Bosnia. In March, Rudd visited Nevada’s Nellis Air Force Base and, according to the Charleston Post and Courier, “got about as close as a civilian can get to an F/A-22 fighter jet.” Around the same time, Bodine went to Walter Reed Army Medical Center to visit with amputee soldiers who’d been hurt by landmines in Afghanistan and Bosnia...