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...Iraq, and the room became more tense. Hemming said there were pros and cons to the rotation. The pros, he said, were that Marines could familiarize themselves with the battlefield thanks to the extra days they serve on it. The cons stemmed from the length of the troops' five-month stateside break between deployments. Speaking more quickly out of what seemed nervous determination, Hemming said, "Our training at home has been very limited." The short stays were particularly hard on families, he said...
...hook, which had been used to hang inmates from their hands or feet. Waleed Sabih al-Delami, detained after soldiers found suspicious wires near his house, tells TIME the Americans picked up where Saddam left off. He says he was suspended from such a hook three times during his five-month stint in U.S. custody at Abu Ghraib. His feet were tied, and his arms were bound behind his back. "They would take a stick and put it through the rope and pull me off the ground," he says. While he was bound and suspended, a military translator stood...
...Olmert's wariness over Hamas is shared by U.S. and Palestinian officials. They told TIME that Hamas - despite its public commitment to a new coalition government with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas - has used a five-month cease-fire with Israeli forces to stage an unprecedented arms build-up in the Gaza strip. "They're armed to the teeth," said one senior U.S. official. "This is not like your average little militia." Indeed, one Israeli official said that, in recent months, Hamas has sent "dozens" of militants to Iran for advanced training in weapons that can destroy aircraft and tanks. Hamas...
...leaders, including Prime Minister Ismail Haniya, from traveling outside the occupied territories, Mashaal, from his exile in Damascus, has been the militant movement's most effective spokesman and fund raiser. Owing to his lobbying, Iran has pledged $100 million in aid to the Hamas-led government, crippled by a five-month economic blockade imposed by Israel and others in the international community. In the past, Israel showed little hesitation in hitting Hamas militants inside Syria with air strikes, and the buzzing of Assad's Latakia palace shows the Israeli military might be prepared to do so again. Mashaal has gone...
...event in Toronto. But Canada's weather limited the company's growth, so in 2001 they launched into the U.S. Now, they're involved in almost 50 festivals in Canada and the U.S.--by far the biggest commercial organizer in North America. "In Canada, it's a four- or five-month season at the most, but in Florida, we can operate year-round," says Kerkmann. For a start-up festival, his company arranges everything from the paddles to the practice sessions, but as local organizers take on some of those tasks, Great White North moves into leasing or selling...