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Isaacs was given 72 hours to live after a bomb slammed his humvee in Mosul in December 2003. He arrived at Walter Reed intact, but successive surgeries chipped away at both his legs. After returning home to Roxboro, N.C., Isaacs, 25, was invited to speak at churches and became a minor celebrity among Fundamentalist Baptists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Men Of Ward 57 | 9/25/2006 | See Source »

...bomb in Mosul in November 2003 took Rodriguez's right leg as well as the only job the hard-driving combat medic had ever wanted. But Rodriguez, 37, who won a Bronze Star for bravery in Iraq, found a way to stay in uniform, teaching his craft at Fort Campbell in Kentucky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Men Of Ward 57 | 9/25/2006 | See Source »

...American officers and diplomats - to say nothing of the Iraqi government - join Babikir in his refusal to name an enemy or tie "insurgents and death squads" to larger political movements. Col. Michael Shields' Stryker Brigade, which spent a year in Mosul, had its mission extended by four months and is now working with the Iraqi Army to cordon off and search west Baghdad's most violent neighborhoods. "We're not targeting organizations," said Col. Michael Shields. "We're targeting the threats to the security of the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Iraq's Top General Walks a Fine Line Between Politics and War | 8/25/2006 | See Source »

...professions. But wars can often distort reality, and the war on terrorism has turned into a test case. An inspiring example is that of Colonel Kelly Faucette, M.D. He recently wrote about caring for a new patient at the intensive-care unit of the 47th Combat Support Hospital in Mosul, Iraq. The patient was a terrorist insurgent, a man who planted hidden roadside bombs to murder civilians and Faucette's fellow soldiers. Faucette wrote in his local paper: "Something inside me wants to walk up to this guy ... and just clobber him." But Faucette didn't. Instead he healed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Doctors Got Into the Torture Business | 6/23/2006 | See Source »

...Other doctors just looked the other way, their military duty overruling the Hippocratic Oath. One at Abu Ghraib intervened to ask guards to stop beating one prisoner's wounded leg and quit hanging him from an injured shoulder. He saw it happen three times. He never reported it. In Mosul, according to Miles, one medic witnessed guards beating a prisoner and burning him by dragging him over hot stones. The prisoner was taken to the hospital, treated and then returned by doctors to his torturers. An investigation into the incidentwas closed because the medic didn't sign the medical record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Doctors Got Into the Torture Business | 6/23/2006 | See Source »

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