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...What happened during Redback Kilo Three's patrol is a war story the Australian Army would prefer to forget. During a gunfight many believe was the longest engagement by an SAS unit since the Vietnam war, the patrol's six members showed undoubted heroism. But their actions - which led to the deaths of those Afghan men - won no bravery awards. Instead they brought recriminations, investigations, and claims of command failures, insubordination, the killing of civilians, and the souveniring of trophies from the dead. Some troopers were disciplined, and the patrol leader resigned in disgust over what he believes...
...orchestrating an attack on a senior al-Qaeda leader. When Three Squadron replaced One Squadron in April 2002, its members felt they had much to live up to. Redback Kilo Three's first mission, in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, kept up the high standard. Led by a patrol sergeant with 12 years' experience in the regiment, the six men of RK3 were at their peak. Perhaps the only weak link was the sixth man on the patrol, a Green Beret soldier on exchange from the U.S. Some troopers thought he was not up to SAS standards - a shortcoming that...
...bullying. I'm not suggesting physical violence, just verbal intervention and a show of disapproval. I know that can work because I used to do it when I was a little girl. Nobody ever hurt me or any of the other kids who worked with me on my antibully patrol. Somehow my parents helped me know that I could and should do that. Parents should teach their children to be protective of those youngsters who can't defend themselves. Then maybe there would be fewer incidents in which kids take guns to school to wreak vengeance on their bullying tormentors...
...begun routinely. Salahdin (Captain Salah) Mahmoud, 47, an interpreter for TIME, and bureau assistant Talal Abu Karam, 50, were driving to an assignment when they found themselves sandwiched between two U.S. military patrols at a busy intersection in the western district of al-Qadisiyah. Both men knew immediately that their risky commute had suddenly become a lot riskier. Military patrols are frequently attacked by insurgent groups, and passing civilian vehicles often end up as collateral damage. As Abu Karam stopped to let the second patrol pass, Salah said, "This is not good...
...explosion site, the arrival of a police patrol finally signaled that it was safe to approach the three wounded men. Even then some people in the crowd were motivated not by sympathy but by greed: they tried to steal money from Abu Karam's pockets. "I was shocked when I saw some policemen taking money and new clothes from the damaged cars," says Hasan. But the crowd also included some selfless Iraqis who decided to take the injured men to Yarmouk rather than wait for ambulances to wind their way through the gridlocked traffic...