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"A lot of officers refused to come here," says Iraqi Army Brigadier General Ali Jassim Mohammed Hassen al-Frejee, describing how in November 2004 he became the battalion commander of the area surrounding Lutufiyah, a town 18 miles south of Baghdad that had become one of Iraq's worst nests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taming Iraq's Triangle of Death | 6/9/2008 | See Source »

Philippine police and military have long blamed the killings and kidnappings on internal purges within the Communist insurgency. The NPA does have a history of murderous infighting: in 2003, a former insurgent leader was gunned down in a Manila restaurant while eating lunch. But international and Philippine human-rights watchdogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines' Disappearing Dissidents | 6/9/2008 | See Source »

The military conducted its own internal investigation into the license plate. While that report recommended censuring three of the battalion's officers for failing to keep track of the plate, it did not offer an explanation of how the plate became attached to the car used to snatch Burgos-other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines' Disappearing Dissidents | 6/9/2008 | See Source »

My impressions of the Class of 2008, gained during my admittedly brief visit this spring, are a bit different. What I have noticed is considerable seriousness of purpose, both in and out of class, and remarkably little self-absorption. Nobody tried to take over University Hall this spring, but quite...

Author: By Robert A. Paarlberg | Title: Iraq, Vietnam, and the Class of 2008 | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

How did he do it? How did Obama become the first Democratic insurgent in a generation or more to knock off the party's Establishment front-runner? Facing an operation as formidable as Clinton's, Obama says in an interview, "was liberating ... What I'd felt was that we could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Obama Did It | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

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