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Duaa had no way of knowing her plaything was a live cluster submunition, the lethal leftover sprinkled by U.S. warplanes and artillery. The Americans dropped some 1,500 cluster bombs, which are continuing their deadly work among innocents all over Iraq. Unlike GPS-or laser-guided "smart" bombs delivered to, say, a tank or other specific target, cluster bombs come packaged in warheads that split in midair and rain as many as hundreds of grenade-like bomblets. They are effective against dispersed troops, but the bomblets generally cannot be targeted individually. And not all the devices explode on impact. Some...
...careful. It's just possible that the worst thing Washington could do is handpick a winner, who would be tainted as an American puppet. The dangers of that were apparent in Najaf, where the mob murder of a pro-American Shi'ite cleric last week showed how lethal such an image...
...Marines are video-game twitchy. They shoot up a minivan with a woman and child, fearing it is full of explosives. For an hour or so, the stress of the morning threatens to unleash lethal chaos. It isn't until American sniper teams set up on rooftops that order is restored. "These guys are more on the edge because they're sitting out in the open with vehicles coming at them," says Staff Sergeant Dino Moreno, a sniper. "We can fire into the grille or the tire. We're trying to prevent as many civilians from getting killed as possible...
...iron sarcophagus-shaped device was worn from use; rusty three-inch nails lined the inside of its doors and walls, pointing inward; they'd lost some of their sharpness. A reporter who put the structure upright and stepped inside determined that the maiden was still capable of performing her lethal function. The device was brought to TIME's attention by a group of looters who had been stripping the compound of anything of value. The iron maiden, they thought, was worthless. That may or may not be true, but its working days do seem finally to be through...
...congressional decision obliged TSA to drop its opposition and design a training program. Its technical aspects, including marksmanship and non-lethal self-defense, were excellent, pilots concurred. But after the 48 flyers - selected from a list of volunteers to bring diversity of gender, type of aircraft, corporation, age and experience - were two days into their training, they got into a combative exchange with a TSA lawyer, sharply questioning some of the rules he was laying out and at one point laughing at his response. That brought a reprimand from a TSA psychologist, and then from the TSA official...