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...generally act like barbarians." On one occasion, after a boy had obtained permission to take some soldiers' photograph, one of the troops grabbed his camera and smashed it on the ground, the report said. This happened after they had agreed to let them take their picture," a U.S. Army civilian interpreter told investigators. "This," the report concluded, "was an unprovoked attack on a child...
...civilian translator said he watched the soldiers stop women between the age of 15 and 25 on the sidewalks, and then handcuff their "husbands or fathers, boyfriends or brothers" who came to the women's aid. Then they would slap the cuffed men and punch them in their groins. "Some of the men were flexi-cuffed [plastic handcuffs] while they were being hit multiple times by various members of the squad, and they were not able to fight back or defend themselves," the interpreter said. "They would also grab people who were watching what was going on, handcuff them...
...Officers, who haven't had time to change into uniforms, arrive at the scene in their civilian clothes--no badge, no gun, no radio, nothing but pounding adrenaline. They race into the building anyway. An old small car screeches to a halt and three officers dive out. One cop after another runs across the quad and inside...
...member state, no matter how irksome, for fear that any violation of that sacrosanct principle might rebound on Beijing some day. And the permanent members certainly don't see eye to eye on issues ranging from Iraq to Kosovo, while Russia reserved its right to systematically bomb and shell civilian villages in Chechnya on the grounds that it was a domestic matter...
...American G.I., peacekeeping's paradox is plain. Shooting to kill--something a soldier has practiced since basic training--is the best thing he can do in combat. But it's the worst thing he can do on a peacekeeping mission because an itchy trigger finger can spark civilian casualties, renewed warfare and national embarrassment. Since the cold war, which Russian and U.S. troops spent pacing in their garrisons awaiting World War III, military prowess has become a more subtle discipline. But subtlety has never been the U.S. military's strong suit, and no other modern military mission is as vexing...