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...daytime - a husband, a wife and two daughters. One was young, but the other was a teenager or in her twenties, it was hard to tell with all the clothes the women wore, as they frequently lamented. But Barker thought she was pretty hot, at least for a hadji chick. Barker told them that they should go over there right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Book Excerpt: Anatomy of an Iraq War Crime | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

...Absolutely, Green replied. "It don't make any difference to me," Green said. "A hadji is a hadji...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Book Excerpt: Anatomy of an Iraq War Crime | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

...Russians invaded Chechnya in 1994 to try to keep it part of Russia. They failed. In 1999, three years after the end of the first Chechen war, they went back, at the prodding of then Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. In a move reminiscent of Tolstoy's hundred-year-old Hadji Murad - which was also set in a strife-ridden Caucasus - the chief separatist, Akhmad Kadyrov, like the title character in the prescient short novel, switched sides at the beginning of the second Chechen war and crushed the rebellion. Assassinated in May 2004, Kadyrov was replaced by his son. (From TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia's Troubled Caucasus: Five Years After Beslan | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

...this war on today's young men. One vet has drowned his wife's dog, and later drowns her in a bathtub. Hank has also hears that Mike had been called Doc by his comrades. Why? Because, on patrol in Iraq, Doc would "stick his hand in some hadji's wound and say, 'Does that hurt?' And the hadji would say yes. Then he'd stick it in again and say, 'Does that hurt?' That's how he got the name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq War Films Focus on Soldiers | 9/1/2007 | See Source »

With experts predicting a 20% increase in Greek cruises this year, Hadji-Ioannou could not have picked a better moment. Easy sailing, it seems, for Mr. Easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stelios Hadji-Ioannou | 5/11/2007 | See Source »

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