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Though the Pentagon can't say what effect America's Army has had on recruitment or how Real Heroes might do, here's an outcome they might not have foreseen: an action-figure civil war, once G.I. Joe realizes there are some new American heroes muscling in on his turf...
...capture in Nigeria, he was delivered to the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone, which has charged him on 11 counts of war crimes, crimes against humanity, sexual slavery and mutilations--atrocities allegedly carried out by Taylor loyalists with his knowledge during Sierra Leone's decade-long civil war. The court has asked the Netherlands to be host to Taylor's trial because of concerns that his presence in Sierra Leone could lead to more unrest. If convicted, he will face multiple life sentences. Says Desmond de Silva, the court's chief prosecutor: "His presence in [our] custody sends...
...more than a dozen interviews with militia leaders, insurgent commanders and clerics, TIME sought out the men likely to be on the front lines of a full-blown sectarian conflict. What they have to say won't necessarily bolster hopes that Iraq can avoid all-out civil war indefinitely. But few militia members interviewed by TIME believe that they are fighting one now. Their assessments largely accord with those of U.S. military intelligence: that while rival death squads roam unchecked, for now civil war is in no one's interest but al-Zarqawi's. Militants on both sides...
Such discoveries lend credence to those, like former Prime Minister and chief U.S. ally Iyad Allawi, who say Iraq is already mired in civil war. Yet despite the bloodshed on both sides, the militants on the front lines don't consider themselves in outright conflict with one another. "War might be tomorrow or one year from now; it all depends on the sparks made by those seeking to inflame it," says Abu Mohammed, a former top-ranking officer in Saddam Hussein's army and now a key Baathist insurgent strategist. Another Baathist insurgent downplays the pervasiveness of sectarian hatred...
MONROVIA -- The murderous civil war in Liberia has reached so volatile a state that on my first day in Monrovia, the capital, I found myself on both sides of the fighting without ever having changed position; suddenly the struggle swirled around my companions and me and engulfed us. President Samuel K. Doe, the man whose ouster rebel forces sought when they began fighting 10 months ago, has been dead for six weeks, but violence, hunger and general chaos continue to hold Liberia in a bloody embrace. An estimated 10,000 Liberians, most of them civilians, have been killed since...