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...Helvenston has problems that military mothers do not have. Her son Scott, who was killed in 2004 at the age of 38, was neither a soldier nor, really, a civilian. He was an ex--Navy seal who worked for a private security firm called Blackwater. Instead of a headstone at Arlington, he has his name etched in a rock at Blackwater's corporate campus in North Carolina. And Helvenston says that three years later, she still has no real answers from the company about what led to her son's death--a death that she believes was due in part...
...through the streets of Iraq. As with much of the occupation, the emergence of guns for hire among this contractor group was not part of the original plan. The number of contractors swelled, the insurgency grew, and the military was unable to provide adequate security for all of the civilian workforce. So companies like Blackwater began offering those services--at a high price--in the military's stead...
...compromise with Western negotiators. Iranian sources tell Time that Ali Larijani, the country's top nuclear negotiator, wants to resurrect talks to resolve the nuclear impasse with European Union foreign-policy chief Javier Solana. The challenge is to find a formula that enables Iran to obtain enriched uranium for civilian energy production while allaying suspicion that it is diverting the material to a weapons program. The outlines of one such proposal have been given to Time (see accompanying article...
...Spanish government just last year passed a law that includes such things as exhuming mass graves. This has been very hotly debated in Spain, some saying that this picks at scabs and opens up old wounds,” he says. The Spanish Civil War wrought havoc on civilian lives, but the current conflict, according to Epps, has been able to be largely ignored by America at large.“Life has hardly been disrupted [by the Iraq War],” he says. “Life at Harvard goes on, and we go to our classes...
...Anita Gorecki, Girouard's civilian attorney, said that her client did not order the men shot, but only tried to help his fellow soldiers afterward by covering it up. He would take the stand in his own defense, she said. "He realized that they had killed these three detainees, and in that moment, yes, he decided to help his squad members," she said...