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...godfather. Its flag is a single-starred version of the Stars and Stripes, its capital is named after James Monroe, and many residents speak English, often with a trace of a Southern twang. Mamadou Bah, 53, whose sister-in-law, nephew and two brothers were killed by a mortar attack on the makeshift refugee camp outside the U.S. embassy, is angry that the Americans have not yet come to help. But if they do, he says, "everybody will be so proud of them...
...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 by gun and grenade and mortar. The mortar attacks are especially troubling, since they require a team of insurgents, a leader and a plan...
...soldier was killed and five were wounded in a series of attacks around the country, and a pro-U.S. mayor in western Iraq was assassinated. The daily average number of attacks on U.S. forces is now 12, and the sophistication of the weaponry is increasing. A number of mortar attacks have been reported in recent weeks, and on Wednesday a surface-to-air missile was fired at a U.S. transport plane landing in Baghdad. (It missed...
...mercury hits 110 degrees most days in Baghdad now, but for occupying U.S. forces the political-military climate may be even hotter. Thursday's mortar and rocket attacks that killed one American and a number of Iraqis were a continuation of a daily drumbeat of hit-and-run attacks. Although U.S. officials have reported killing more than 100 fighters and arresting hundreds of suspects in raids this week on a suspected training camp and during searches of villages in Iraq's Baath party heartland, America has suffered an average of a soldier killed in combat every other day since President...
...others in his village regard the past year as the worst. In October, they say, some 500 ground troops attacked them from four directions in Xaysomboune while a gunship strafed them from above. In all, 216 Hmong were killed. Such assaults can come at any time. Last August, a mortar round landed less than a meter from nine-year-old Yeng Houa's family dinner table, killing both his parents. Yeng survived, but I count 18 shrapnel scars on his legs, his jaw is broken and there is an infected sore on his inner thigh. Since the attack...