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...Standing at a slight distance, the chaotic scene only makes Fazal Din more nervous. As Pakistani troops advanced into South Waziristan 10 days ago to target the stronghold of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the villager from Karam was fleeing with his family in the opposite direction. After walking for several hours, a bus happened to stop nearby. Parting with whatever cash they had, they bought themselves a ride to this wild and dusty frontier town three days later. "The bombing was hard," Din recalls. "It destroyed five houses near my own." (See pictures of Pakistan's vulnerable North-West...
Army officials say they believe the detainee known as Abu Karam gave the orders to assassinate Iskandariyah's mayor and was in charge of special Iranian-trained cells that plant the powerful roadside bombs known as EFPs, explosively formed penetrators, to kill American GIs in this volatile area south of Baghdad. The capture threw the local Jaish al Mahdi into a crisis, leading two top-tier leaders to knock on the gates of the nearby American base two days later asking for an audience with the American commander there. It was the first time the leadership...
...amid the rubble for survivors and the dead. Soon after the first two attacks, a bomb left inside a bag in a parking lot went off, killing six tourists. It's unclear who carried out the assult, though an extremist Islamic group has claimed responsibility. "Whoever did this," said Karam Mahmoud Mohammed Hamid as he cleaned up broken glass at his pharmacy in the market, "has no religion...
...much that he needed a transfusion. By the time the rest of the TIME Baghdad staff was alerted and arrived at the hospital, the ER workers had done what they do best: stopped the blood loss and patched up the wounds. The ancient X-ray machine revealed that Abu Karam and Salah had many pieces of shrapnel lodged in their bodies, but there were no serious internal wounds...
...turned out, we had a few other options. With the help of a medical-evacuation agency, TIME airlifted Salah to Amman, Jordan, where he underwent extensive reconstructive hand surgery. Abu Karam was released from the hospital to convalesce at his home in Baghdad. Because of the lack of medicines and equipment at the ER, both men are still at risk for secondary infections. But they are in the care of their families and are expected to recover. They were the fortunate ones. Waleed, the university student, suffered brain trauma from the shrapnel to his head and remains at the Yarmouk...