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...strongly rejects these claims and has donated $1 million to a foundation set up by Litvinenko's widow to seek justice for her husband. But justice - and a clear outcome - could further strain U.K.-Russian relations. Britain and its European allies need Russian support to resolve international conflicts and combat climate change; and they're uncomfortably aware that the country supplies much of Europe's natural gas and oil. So, while politicians trade hard words, their instinct for appeasement is strong. The mystery gripping Western diplomats is not who murdered Litvinenko, but how to contain the political poison that...
...Private first class, U.S. Army. 1st Battalion, 18th Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division...
...movement en masse of its voters, elected representatives and candidates toward a policy of withdrawal sooner rather than later from Iraq. This culminated in the past couple of weeks when three-quarters of House Democrats and three-fifths of Senate Democrats voted to begin cutting off funding for most combat operations in Iraq. All the Presidential candidates supported the plan, including the previously "we can't just pull out" Clinton and Joe Biden. So the candidates are together on Iraq policy moving forward, however much sniping there might be about previous votes and statements. This reduces the chances of that...
...fact, Abu Ghraib came under regular mortar fire from insurgents, sometimes three or four times a week. The decision to site the facility in a combat zone was a clear violation of the Geneva Convention, experts say, and doing so cost scores of American and Iraqi lives - far more than were killed in the abuse scandal itself...
...military doctrine stresses that those who guard prisoners of war should not be in combat, because the hostility and aggression necessary to fight must be directed at the enemy, not at prisoners. But with Abu Ghraib under threat of mortar fire, many of those stationed there have said they were in a perpetual state of tension and fear, the well-known antecedents to shell-shock, also known as post traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD...