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...determining factor in detention." Colonel MATTHEW BEEVERS, chief spokesman for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, explaining why juveniles are in custody there and in Guantánamo...
Without security, talk of democracy is academic. "If we can't stop people from being shot downtown, it's all just words," says Lieut. Colonel Steve Russell of the 1-22 Infantry Battalion, 4th Infantry Division's 1st Brigade based in Tikrit. By one measure, at least, security has improved: fewer U.S. troops are dying, at least for now. But other statistics are worrisome. By choosing symbolic moments for maximum psychological impact, suicide bombers and insurgent gunmen have been exacting high tolls from every segment of Iraq's combustible society. Last Tuesday was the deadliest day for Shi'ites since...
...holed up in garrisons on the outskirts of cities and towns, says New York University law professor Noah Feldman, who has advised the Administration on Iraq, "they have a tendency to look like wimps." That's a perception the insurgents are certain to put to the test. Lieut. Colonel Russell says "these people respect strength." His unit employed some of the most controversial tactics the occupation has seen: mass detentions, firing on suspected guerrilla positions amid civilians, demolishing houses, even ringing a troublesome village with barbed wire to make all residents pass through a single military checkpoint when they came...
...Russian missiles to confound the Bush administration's planned missile-defense shield, thereby maintaining the deterrent capability of Moscow's own strategic arsenal. The arrest late last year of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, owner of the massive Yukos oil company, was interpreted by some as a sign that the former KGB colonel-turned-President even planned to reassert state control over the economy...
...soldiers who call its deserts and redoubts home. Deployed at the front line of Washington's war on terrorism, the U.S. commanders believe they have the enemy on the run even if bin Laden remains at large. "I don't think we're facing 'good' al-Qaeda," says Lieut. Colonel Mike Howard, who commands the 10th Mountain Division's two bases at Orgun-e and Shkin, referring to the battle-tested brigades that faced off against the U.S. forces when they first arrived. "I wouldn't have said that two years ago." Members of the 10th Mountain Division who have...