Word: fragged
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...These frustrations are at the heart of the drama in Redacted. The Iraqis are not guys in different uniforms, or women one might woo; they are walking frag bombs, more animal or mineral than human. And when the members of one squad stationed in at a checkpoint in Samarra see their sergeant blown up while sweeping a dump site (his severed arm lands in front of Salazar's camera), they gradually go a little nuts...
...November morning. The spot where the IED went off, killing Lance Corporal Miguel Terazzas and starting the chain of terrible events, has been repaired with fresh concrete. The four houses where the tragedy unfolded have recently been patched up. The bullet holes have been filled, the scorch marks from FRAG grenades painted over and walls repaired. ?A stranger would not know anything special had happened there,? says Taher Thabet, a local journalism student and human-rights worker whose video first brought the Haditha massacre to TIME's attention. ?But those of us who live there, we look at the fresh...