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...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 him before sending him to a jail, and by that act of healing he helped heal Iraq...
...second time in a week, U.S. troops in Iraq have been charged with murder. Four U.S. soldiers have been charged with killing three detainees in Iraq's Salahuddin province last month. Yesterday, the Marines announced that seven Marines and one Navy corpsman had been charged with kidnapping, conspiracy, and murder of an Iraqi man last April. And there may be more to come: An ongoing criminal investigation into the deaths of 24 civilians in Haditha last November, an alleged massacre first uncovered by TIME, may result in similar charges against several Marines...
...Council, an umbrella group that includes Al-Qaeda in Iraq, posted an internet message Tuesday claiming that the group's new leader, Abu Hamza al-Muhajer, had personally killed the Americans. Although the group has offered no definitive proof so far that it was responsible for the kidnapping and murder of Tucker and Menchaca, its statement promised that it would soon release a videotape to back its claim...
...suggestion that al-Mujaher, an Egypian named as leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq after the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was personally involved in the murder appears designed to score propaganda points and counter the impression that the organization had been rocked by the loss in recent weeks of its leader and - according to the U.S. - other key operatives...
...Saturday's slaughter - the worst single incident since March 1995, when five people were murdered in a Ninth Ward home - brought the year's homicide tally to 52. After a long lull in violent crime following Hurricane Katrina, the murder rate in New Orleans and its suburbs has been rising as more residents return to the area and the repopulation of flooded neighborhoods continues...