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...Middle East, a simple human error can change the face of history. One such error may have occurred in Gaza on Wednesday, with potentially terrible effects. At around 5a.m., an Israeli tank gunner miscalculated the trajectory of his firing during an operation aimed at a site from which Palestinian militants had fired rockets , the previous day, into the Israeli city of Ashkelon...
...tank gunner's mathematical goof sent five shells crashing into a row of houses in Beit Hanoun, where dozens of Palestinian families lay sleeping. The shelling killed 19 people, including two women and six children, and wounded another...
...Lenore Swenson, 25, from Colorado Springs, Colo., who dreams of leaving the Army someday and buying a horse ranch, tucks her flaxen hair under her helmet. Her friendly grin vanishes beneath a black fire-retardant mask with goggles. She trained as a driver, but her superiors switched her to gunner. "We need maturity behind the gun," says squad leader Darren Horve...
...humvee leaves camp, Horve yells out to her, "Hey, Swenson! Keep an eye open for triggermen hiding along the road." She nods. In the gunner's hatch, she is armed with a 240 Bravo machine gun that fires 950 rounds a minute, but she is more vulnerable than the men inside the humvee's armored shell to sniper bullets and shrapnel from roadside bombs. As the convoy rolls down the back roads, Swenson and the guys in her humvee keep up an easy, comradely banter, joking about the Iraqi kids they see along their patrol: one boy moves like...
...screams a gunner as he spots al-Qaeda fighters dart in front of him. "Just kill people to the north," a sergeant bellows. "Light him up," cries another soldier as a gunman approaches. On Nov. 17, even as Representative John Murtha was stirring debate on Capitol Hill by calling for an immediate redeployment of U.S. troops, the young soldiers of Blue Platoon were amid a citywide battle that revealed just how hard it will be to pull U.S. troops out soon...