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...wounding of an Israeli, and the son of a local Labor Party politician at that, to touch a nerve among the Israeli public. Even right-wing newspapers ran editorials condemning the shooting. Parliamentarians called an emergency debate and the army instituted two separate inquiries. "The whole chain of command should go to jail," says Avshalom Vilan, a leftist lawmaker and friend of the Naamati family. "We need a trial so people will understand this is a thing that the state can't accept." Naamati knew the rules of engagement: his three years of military service ended just a month before...
...Finally, he forced the Army, Navy and Air Force to do something they had more or less avoided for 50 years: fight together instead of carving up the battlefield and reserving each slice for a different service. One contingent of Army troops in western Iraq was even under the command of an Air Force colonel...
...guys but cries on the phone to her father when she talks about what she has witnessed in Iraq. Sergeant Jose Cesar Aparicio, 31, a reservist, heads a psychological-operations team attached to the platoon. The leader of the Tomb Raiders, First Lieutenant Brady Van Engelen, 24, took over command two months ago and is still fighting for his soldiers' respect...
...vehicle convoy curls past the Adhamiya police station and heads north along the Tigris River, which bounds the neighborhood on two sides. Of the 88 sectors in Baghdad, Adhamiya is rated by the U.S. command among the six most dangerous for coalition forces. The 1.2sq.-mi. area is home to 400,000 people, most of them Sunni Muslims. The anti-American graffiti that blankets the walls of neighborhood buildings attests to the strong resistance to the U.S. presence here. Spray-painted in Arabic and English, it reads, DOWN USA. LONG LIVE SADDAM. YES TO MARTYRDOM FOR THE SAKE...
...their soldiers is still the norm--and asked not to be addressed as sir. Says Talimeliyor: "When we first met, I thought, Man, this L.T., he talks a lot. I thought he was going to be annoying." A former enlisted man, Colgan could relate to the soldiers in his command. "He knew how to talk to the enlisted guys like normal people," says Whiteside...