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While much has been said about the attackers who stormed the compound from the outside, little has been revealed about the possible involvement of Iraqi Police who were inside at the time. But the final report of the official military investigation into the incident says there is some evidence to suggest that Iraqi Police who'd been working with U.S. forces in Karbala for over a year helped orchestrate the attack...
...that a crack team of gunmen sneaked into the Karbala police station, where about 30 U.S. soldiers were normally at work on training programs and other initiatives aimed at building up local security forces. The attackers, who carried U.S.-style weapons, killed one American soldier after getting into the compound and then abducted four others, executing them a short distance away as the attackers fled, evading capture by abandoning their vehicles and shedding their bogus American uniforms and mock weapons...
...Black Rose, did her homeland proud by pummeling her feisty Japanese opponent to capture the World Boxing Council light-flyweight title. The only catch? Siriporn is currently doing 10 years in a Bangkok jail for drug dealing, and her title bout had to be staged in a prison compound. She appears to be the first fighter to win a world title while behind bars...
...over the course of 20 meetings, taking place everywhere from Harvard’s Loeb House to the Citigroup compound in Armonk, N.Y., Faust’s candidacy seemingly beat the odds. A woman, a non-alum, and a low-profile dean became the first insider in 30 years to be named Harvard’s president...
...ites made from the Sunnis more than 1,000 years ago, in front of his congregation. "The words are not important," he says. "I care about the heart." And yet for his magnanimity, Saeed has been shunned by most of his fellow clerics. He now rarely leaves the mosque compound, let alone the Green Zone...