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Meeks, a former social studies concentrator in Lowell House, was injured when his convoy struck an improvised explosive device (IED) 15 miles west of Fallujah.Both of Meeks’ eardrums were punctured and a piece of shrapnel struck his right eye, Jinnett said...
...unawares and captured in their tribal-area hideaways in the foreseeable future. Bin Laden's fighters, says Islamabad-based columnist and retired General Talat Masood, "have almost certainly melted away into the hills." Mohammed, meanwhile, is now a local hero. Mobs of cheering tribesmen gather when his six-vehicle convoy, each auto mounted with machine guns, roars past. "I believe in the concept of jihad," Mohammed told reporters in his village of Shakai after the truce was signed, adding that he still considers Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar to be his "Commander of the Faithful." With al-Qaeda safe once...
...hope that the U.S. could soon impose order was further tempered by the insurgents' proclivity for kidnapping foreigners, including U.S. soldiers. On April 16 al-Jazeera broadcast a videotape of Private First Class Keith Maupin, 20, of Batavia, Ohio, surrounded by fighters who had taken him hostage after the convoy in which he was traveling on April 9 was attacked outside Baghdad. Other members of that convoy, which included private contractors, are still missing...
...into this cauldron that the four American Blackwater contractors headed last Wednesday. Spokesmen for the company say the contractors, who typically travel armed with automatic weapons, were guarding a convoy of trucks loaded with food. But the reasons for their decision to drive through such a hostile neighborhood remain murky. Sources familiar with Blackwater's operations say an investigation will have to determine whether the contractors, one of whom had arrived in Iraq only two weeks earlier, received sufficient training in avoiding and responding to ambushes. Standard operating procedure for security teams like Blackwater's, according to a former private...
...still unclear whether the four Blackwater employees found themselves in Fallujah inadvertently or were on a mission gone awry. Even by Pentagon standards, military officials were fuzzy about the exact nature of the Blackwater mission; several officers privately disputed the idea that the team was escorting a food convoy. Another officer would say only the detail was escorting a shipment of "goods." Several sources familiar with Blackwater operations told TIME that the company has in some cases abbreviated training even for crucial missions in war zones. A former private military operator with knowledge of Blackwater's operational tactics says...