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...accompanied the units on patrol. While their numbers are few, Iraqi special forces have assumed a bigger role in sensitive counter-insurgent operations, often acting as the lead teams in raids and rescue missions. In some cases, Iraqi units have used intelligence gleaned from locals to identify their own low-level targets, and then execute small raids on their own. Trained by Task Force Pioneer, a unit drawn from a support company from the U.S. Special Operating Force's 10th Group, the emerging Iraqi commando units have impressed U.S. commanders with their combat performance and bolstered confidence that Iraqis...
...truth, many critics have held that the roughly 600 Guantanamo inmates are low-level fighters who could not possibly be valuable sources of information. Moreover, studies have shown that torture is generally ineffective at gathering information from detainees...
...President Bush and his party. Shocking, I know. And just to speak a word of these quality contributors, the Los Angeles Times reported that “Simmons’ Waste Control Specialists firm won permission this year from the Texas Health Department in its efforts to dispose of low-level nuclear waste in West Texas. Environmentalists are fighting the decision.” Nuclear waste in West Texas? No wonder he’s so anxious to ensure Bush stays in office...
...best hope for springing a hostage comes at the initial stage. Groups like White's contact mosques, tribal leaders, militias and even former intelligence agents in search of news about the victim. Because the low-level gangs are after cash, a quick payout might free the hostage before he is "sold up" to groups with less easily deciphered, deadlier agendas. Such deals can be lucrative: prices paid range from $10,000 to $100,000, according to White, with U.S. soldiers fetching the highest rate...
Back at Gilly's the soldiers are outraged that so far only low-level troops have been collared for the prison abuses. The banter turns to what kind of behavior is acceptable in war. One Vietnam vet at the bar recalls atrocities: "I knew guys in Vietnam with dried ears and penises hanging from their dog tags," he says. "What these guys did in Iraq was bad, and they ought to burn for it, but it's not the worst thing we've done...