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...army convoy rattled through Al-Adhamiya like a carnival roller coaster, each turn as blind as the next. Not that the soldiers could see much anyway. Night had fallen on the old Baghdad quarter, a byzantine maze lit only by kerosene lamps flickering from rugged stone houses. We moved warily in the darkness, patrolling for insurgents in blind alleys custom-made for ambushes and narrow passages perfect for concealing roadside bombs. It was anyone's bet who faced a more dire risk, the hunted in terrorist cells or the hunters in humvees, along with whom I was riding under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How I Lost My Hand But Found Myself | 9/24/2006 | See Source »

...Windows rattled across the city Friday morning as a suicide car-bomber rammed a U.S. convoy patrolling near the U.S. embassy in the city center. It was the second suicide attack in a week, following on Monday's bombing near the airport that killed five people. And it came at the end of a week of fierce clashes in the south; the strength of Taliban resistance has surprised NATO commanders, who on Thursday called on member states to send a further 2,000 troops to reinforce its counterinsurgency mission in the Taliban's heartland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Karzai on the Bombing: "The Enemy Is Not Eliminated" | 9/8/2006 | See Source »

...contingent has negotiated to the rules of engagement that reflect its government's willingness to accept casualties. On a recent trip organized by NATO, Council on Foreign Relations expert Max Boot says he heard "a British officer berating a Dutch air force officer for limiting his activities to tame convoy escorts and not having the guts to engage in real combat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remember This War? | 8/27/2006 | See Source »

...rifle that the Marines claim was taken from one of the town residents killed that day. But Wuterich's lawyers say their client has a clear memory of what was done with that AK-47; he says it was put into the first Humvee in his convoy, along with a suitcase taken from one of the Iraqi houses, by another Marine (whom the lawyers will not name). The AK-47 and the suitcase were to be taken back to base, tagged and put in a secure location. Wuterich says he does not know what happened to it after that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exclusive: A Marine Denies Involvement in a Haditha Cover-up | 8/19/2006 | See Source »

...There are no favorable alternative roads to Teir Harfa, however. One shows a near constant line of red crosses, the other is a track that meanders through a deep valley used by Hizballah to fire rockets. Lionel sighs and orders the convoy to return to base in Naqoura...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viewing the War from a U.N. Relief Convoy | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

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