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...country's American allies. Under pressure to score a victory in the war on terror as unambiguous as the capture of Saddam Hussein, the Bush Administration prodded Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to send 11,000 troops into the country's semiautonomous tribal area in March on a search-and-destroy mission. The quarry: top Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters believed to be hiding out in tribal lands since being routed from Afghanistan three years ago by U.S.-led coalition forces. Some optimists even thought Osama bin Laden might be plotting his next attacks from Waziristan and could be snared there...
Dawn in Fallujah, and the men of the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines' Easy Company, part of the 1st U.S. Marine Expeditionary Force, are withdrawing under fire. At 4:30 that morning, 150 Marines had moved into the southern edge of the city to destroy two bunkers that insurgents were using to fire on their positions. Easy's Third Platoon moved in to inspect one of the buildings, which had been hit the day before by a 500-lb. bomb. Platoon Commander 2nd Lieut. Ilario Pantano reported back that they had found gun emplacements and binoculars and that the building...
...speaks, the Marines are waiting for their engineers to arrive and destroy the base fortifications. If a war has been averted for the time being, it doesn't feel like peace. A sniper team comes under fire and requests extraction. U.S. planes make bombing runs over the central part of the city. As evening falls, the insurgents are still firing mortars at the Easy Company base. The company fires back with its own mortars, and a patrol prepares to go out after our attackers. The company asks for permission to patrol the area, but battalion headquarters rejects the request...
...program has helped make Delaware's schools among the nation's most integrated. Smith says it has driven families out of public education and broken the color-blind promise of Brown. "Having grown up here, I just thought it was wrong to break up the local schools and destroy what had been focal points of communities for somebody else's ideal," says the investment banker and father of four...
...tragic one. Hector? He's on the losing side. For all its surface glorifying of war bravery and the brooding introspection it allows the leads, the film's view is from above, where the gods watch men kill one another for real estate and destroy the land they would occupy...