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...local charitable organizations.” The company’s website says that the Palestinians whom it aids are victims of “Zionist fascism.” ALLIED AGAINST ALLIED The other component of SLAM’s campaign targets AlliedBarton, whose officers patrol Harvard’s campuses 24 hours a day. Fidel E. Solano, a security officer for AlliedBarton at Harvard, and Emerson Harris, an organizer for Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 615 who is working with the SLAM campaign, spoke together to publicize AlliedBarton’s allegedly unfair policies toward worker unionization...
...theAfghan national police, was on his way to Sangin, in southwestern Afghanistan, last month when he found himself fighting for his life. He was traveling in a police convoy of five dilapidated pickup trucks armed with a modest arsenal of rocket launchers and AK-47s. As the patrol neared Sangin, Mahmad, 22, heard gunshots. He looked up to see that the man riding next to him was dead. Soon they were surrounded by Taliban guerrillas who had charged from the hilltops shouting "Allahu akbar." Five policemen were killed before commanders called in air support and backup from Afghan army...
...none at all. Though Taliban militants in the area have murdered aid workers and local politicians, torched schools and menaced teachers, the police say the U.S. has paid the area scant attention, essentially ceding territory to the insurgents. Haji Mosa Jan, the Gereshk district commander, says, "We used to patrol with one or two men" in Sangin, but now it's too dangerous to patrol at all. "We thought the coalition forces were here to fight terrorists," says one of Jan's deputies, "but it seems like we get very little support...
...Many enlisted before the Iraq war, when military life for privates was much the same as working in, say, McDonald's, only you had to salute your bosses. "I thought I'd be working in a hospital," says medic Sergeant Dywata Reynolds. "But then this war started." While on patrol recently, Reynolds, the mother of a baby, survived a fusillade of insurgent gunfire. Says Collins: "We didn't expect to be as close to combat as we are, but you can't get much closer than this...
Sources: Pew Research Center (2); AP; NBC; National Association of Realtors (2); Washington State Patrol; USDA...