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...this rate it will not be long before more people will have perished since the end of combat than during it. The Iraqi army may have melted away in battle, but its shadow legions of Saddam loyalists and foreign jihadists seem to be growing more organized and more lethal: twice as many U.S. soldiers died in June as in May, and July's rate so far is worse. Soldiers have died in accidents--some caused, no doubt, by the stresses of life under fire and the fear of attack. And they have died after being kidnapped and tortured, died...
Though Rombauer said private tests had found that the mold was not of a lethal variety, HSA adopted a better-safe-than-sorry attitude and installed a containment system to ensure that no dangerous spores leaked to other floors of Let?...
...International Cooperation, is to "cause enough terror that the foreigners will leave Afghanistan and Afghans will be afraid to collaborate with the government in Kabul, causing it to crumble." That's likely beyond their reach, but in a country as unstable as Afghanistan, even degraded Taliban fighters are a lethal threat...
...crossed the passage over 40 times, and this is the worst I've ever seen it," was the promising summary from our expedition leader Aaron, as 20-meter waves smashed over the bow of our ice vessel. The wind was bordering on cyclone intensity and, with another lethal wall of icy water rearing up, I began to appreciate why the fierce 1,000-kilometer Drake Passage?renowned for consuming ships as they round Cape Horn?is considered one of the fundamental barriers to Antarctic tourism. The others are exorbitant cost, the remoteness and (should you ever forget it) the cold...
...rather than for the delicate balance of combat, policing and civic affairs work involved in an occupation mission - witness last week's photographs of U.S. troops trying to control an angry crowd at bayonet-point. (After two Iraqis were killed in that confrontation, U.S. troops began training with non-lethal antiriot gear. Unfortunately, however, the U.S. is facing an uphill battle for Iraqi public opinion, particularly in light of the propensity of much of the local population to believe the worst rumors about the American forces. They may be untrue, but tales of rape and pillage are doing the rounds...