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...been a frustrating experience for men like police colonel Dawood Salman, a 25-year veteran of Baghdad's city force. He recently requested better arms for the Bab al-Sheikh station, where 103 men share five walkie-talkies and none have bulletproof body armor. The American MPs posted as advisers to the station, he says, "laughed at us. They said the guns would be stolen by gangs and used against Americans." Yet he and his men are expected both to crack down on the rampant crime that is terrorizing the city and to face off against insurgents...
Flushing them out is the task of 1st Cav's 2nd Brigade, a.k.a. the Black Jack Brigade. The commander, Colonel Michael Formica, is keenly aware that when al-Zarqawi brings his jihad to the Iraqi capital, these districts will supply fighters and support...
...abuse of prisoners in Iraq have gone beyond the beatings and sexual humiliation already alleged? Unreleased, classified parts of the report on prison abuse from Major General Anthony Taguba, which were read to TIME, contain indications of mistreatment of female prisoners. In a Feb. 21 statement to Taguba, Lieut. Colonel Steven L. Jordan, former head of the Abu Ghraib interrogation center, said he had received reports "that there were members of the MI [military intelligence] community that had come over and done a late-night interrogation of two female detainees" last October. According to a statement by Jordan's boss...
...that Amitabh Bachchan, the godfather of Bollywood, get it right. "Cut! Cut!" yelled Farhan Akhtar, the 29-year-old veteran of one movie, before marching up to Bachchan, the 60-year-old veteran of more than 100, for an urgent discussion. The scene featured Bachchan as an Indian army colonel banging two hammers on a table off screen to simulate the jolt of an incoming Pakistani artillery round, then walking across camera to pick up a mug of tea. After two hours of adjusting camera angles, lighting and backdrop, and several more heated talks with Bachchan, Akhtar called a wrap...
After several more arms shipments, another hostage was released. By this time, Poindexter had delegated much of the maneuvering to his gung-ho assistant, Marine Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, who was also cooperating with the CIA in supplying arms to the Nicaraguan rebels, even though Congress had formally forbidden any such action. Somehow there emerged what North later called a "neat idea"--using money that the Iranians paid for illegal arms to buy more illegal arms for the Nicaraguan rebels...