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...Army (ANA) have the most dangerous job in Afghanistan. The dark khaki camouflage uniform - a gift from the U.S. government - may as well be a beacon for Taliban attacks. Insurgents often target the ANA, knowing that the poorly prepared troops rarely drive armored vehicles and lack sufficient firepower to mount a counter-offensive. Several hundred ANA troops have died in combat since 2003, and a new Taliban directive has decreed that their alliance with foreign forces makes ANA soldiers infidels, and thus a legitimate target...
...Wuterich's lead civilian defense counsel, Neal Puckett, made clear that his client plans to mount a vigorous defense: "He did what he was supposed to do to protect himself," said Puckett. "Iraq is a very dangerous environment for our Marines. Any action they take can result in death. Everything Staff Sergeant Wuterich did that day was to protect his Marines and keep them from harm...
...With some help from Iraqi security forces, U.S. troops have managed to bring the level of violence down in parts of western and southern Baghdad, neighborhoods like Washash and Mekanik. In areas where U.S. troops control traffic through checkpoints and mount regular patrols, sectarian murders tend to drop. Would-be killers who fan out across the city from militia strongholds have a difficult time carrying out attacks amid car searches and street watches by U.S. troops. Perhaps the most visible example of this came in October, when U.S. forces threw up a temporary blockade around the Shi'a slum...
...current location, they decided about three years ago (and without the benefit of any real comprehensive study or hard data) that the easiest road to the “promised land” (a.k.a. a property without the need for capital improvement that the Board had allowed to mount) was to seize on Harvard’s interest in annexing our once-thriving residential neighborhood for its campus...
...naturally, we pee on him. And not just once. We pee on him with such great frequency that from dusk until dawn the urine rains down like a biblical plague. Urinators comment that the statue can be difficult to mount, since it is already dripping wet from previous visitors. I know a room of boys that peed on John Harvard three times a night for an entire week—it was the primary activity of their evenings...