Word: patrollers
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...confiscate weapons being transported to Hezbollah without the authorization of the Lebanese government.While the Lebanese government must focus on undermining Hezbollah’s popular support, UN forces should focus on weakening Hezbollah’s military strength. The UN peacekeepers will remain worthless unless they are empowered to patrol the borders and confiscate the truckloads of missiles already making their way into the country again. The UN’s failure to focus on the practical issue of disarmament is part of a general faith that dialogue can resolve deep hatred and lead to rational behavior from terrorist actors...
...correspondent Brian Bennett and photographer Jim Nachtwey. Jim Kelly, my predecessor as managing editor, had asked for volunteers for the job and was pleased and relieved that a pro like Michael had signed up for duty. When a grenade landed in the back of his humvee on a routine patrol in Baghdad and Michael grabbed it and tried to throw it away, he became a part of the story he had been covering--and a part of the lives of the men whose lives he saved. Michael lost his hand, and Jim suffered shrapnel wounds to his abdomen and legs...
...hindsight, stopping genocide is easy. But in Darfur, where it is happening now, stopping genocide is brutally hard. A contingent of 7,000 African Union peacekeepers currently patrol the Texas-size chunk of western Sudan where government-backed militias are busy exterminating the non-Arab population. The African soldiers are decent and brave, but they are engaged in a sham. The militias menace villagers in front of the peacekeepers' eyes; Sudan's government steals the fuel they need to fly their planes. In the words of U.N. envoy Jan Pronk, "The people on the ground are just laughing...
...NATO intervention would be aimed at saving Muslim lives, but that wouldn't stop al-Qaeda from screaming about the West's recolonization of the Islamic world. Bringing stability to a region as complicated and brutalized as Darfur could take years, if not decades. U.N. peacekeepers still patrol Kosovo today, and that's an easier case...
Wuterich is under investigation for what happened on another day, just two months after his arrival in Iraq. On the morning of Nov. 19, 2005, Wuterich's squad, on patrol in Haditha, was hit by an improvised explosive device that killed one of his men. Iraqi witnesses and sources familiar with the two Pentagon investigations under way claim that several of the squad's 12 Marines then went on a rampage of killing in the town, leaving 24 Iraqis dead, including five women and six children. Wuterich's lawyer Neal Puckett would not permit Wuterich to talk about those events...