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...last time Jay Garner was in Iraq, the locals begged him to stay. That was in 1991, in the aftermath of the Gulf War, when almost 8,000 U.S. servicemen and -women were still occupying the northern part of the country. Garner was in charge of providing a safe haven for thousands of Iraqi Kurds after Saddam Hussein brutally suppressed their postwar rebellion. In June 1991, with an uneasy peace in place, the Americans began pulling out. In the city of Dohuk, 1,500 Kurds surrounded then Major General Garner's headquarters. "No, no, Saddam!" they chanted. "Yes, yes, Bush...
This 25-year-old photographer picked up her first camera in high school and hasn't looked back. A journalistic veteran of last year's Afghan war, Brooks has been in northern Iraq for TIME since February and has covered, among other things, the assault by Kurds and U.S. Special forces on Ansar guerrillas. "The battle with Ansar was similar to Tora Bora" In Afghanistan, she observes. "The Ansar fighters were retreating into mountains, hiding in caves and breaking off into small groups...
...Harvard women’s water polo team began the Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) Northern Division Championship in dominating fashion, but was once again unable to steer clear of an obstacle which has thwarted it all season long—host and Ivy rival No. 17 Brown...
...magnitude of the game—which would decide a berth in the Northern Division finals—far outweighed any similar matchup from earlier in the season, while the 11-goal margin of defeat was the largest for Harvard all season long...
...called the arrests "political," and accused the government of exploiting Djindjic's death to discredit the opposition. Fire Alert RUSSIA Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov ordered a fire-safety survey of all Russian schools following the deaths of 54 children in two separate school blazes. Twenty-two children died in northern Siberia and 32 died at a boarding school for the deaf in the southern republic of Dagestan. Due to chronic underfunding, many Russian schools are poorly maintained; last year there were 700 school fires. Sand Trap ALGERIA More than 1,000 soldiers and border guards joined the search...