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Trying to convey the significance of leadership by example, panelists vividly recounted their experiences in the field. Remembering an accident in Fallujah in which a U.S. convoy was struck by a vehicle carrying a bomb, Sullivan expressed her wonder at the unwavering enthusiasm of American soldiers...

Author: By Brenda C. Maldonado, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kennedy School Honors Harvard Vets | 2/21/2007 | See Source »

...investigation into the Haditha tragedy started with a simple Google search. I checked back to see what the U.S. Marines said had happened on Nov.19th. In a three-paragraph communiqu?, the Marines claimed that a roadside bomb on a convoy of Humvees had killed one Marine, wounded two others and had also killed 15 Iraqi civilians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viewpoint: Breaking Haditha | 12/23/2006 | See Source »

...charges, which will be announced at the Marine Corps base at Camp Pendleton, California, stem from the bloody incident in Haditha, 60 miles north of Baghdad, on November 19, 2005. After Marine Lance Cpl. Miguel Terrazas was killed by a powerful insurgent bomb which struck a Marine convoy, his fellow squad members killed 24 Iraqis, including some who local civilians claim were innocents simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. The Marines initially reported that only 15 Iraqis had died, and that they had been killed by a roadside bomb. Senior Marine officers did not investigate the deadly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Haditha Charges | 12/20/2006 | See Source »

...Maliki has done virtually nothing to try and stop - and he has frequently obstructed U.S. military efforts to do so. The Iraqi Prime Minister arrived in Jordan a thoroughly weakened and discredited figure: Over the weekend, he endured the ignominy of having his convoy booed and pelted with stones by his fellow Shi'ites in Sadr City, where he had gone to pay condolences after a series of car bombs killed over 215 people on Thanksgiving Day. As al-Maliki left Baghdad, the Iraqi capital was wracked by continuing violence, and his key political allies were threatening to boycott parliament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush and Maliki: A Summit of Lame Ducks | 11/29/2006 | See Source »

...gained fame after appearing on the hit reality-TV interrogation show Terrorism in the Hands of Justice, on which he told in gruesome detail of the scores of Iraqi lives he took, often using his uniform to trap victims. Farid didn't go easily. On the morning the convoy of Iraqi officials drove out to oversee the execution, 30 cars ambushed them with gunmen firing PKC automatic weapons. After fighting their way through to the gallows, the executioners were surprised at how defiant Farid was as he faced his own death. When asked to verify his identity before they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secrets of Iraq's Death Row | 11/12/2006 | See Source »

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