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...years as a journalist I had never seen anything like this: a ragtag army with wailing families in tow, beseeching me to take news of their plight to the outside world. I walked among starving children, their tiny frames scarred by mortar shrapnel. Young men, toting rifles and with dull-eyed infants strapped to their backs, ripped open their shirts to show me their wounds. An old man grabbed my hand and guided it over the contours of shrapnel buried in his gut. A teenage girl, no more than 15, whimpered at my feet, pawed at my legs and cried...
...straight home after school and spent his free time improving his Web-design skills. "His only friends were his computer and the Internet," his father says. His technical prowess eventually got Adamec into trouble. On Feb. 19, police charged him with "incitement" for his alleged involvement with "darkers," a ragtag group of youths who blacked out entire neighborhoods by disrupting power lines. During his last day at school, March 4, a classmate passed around a newspaper article detailing the charges. In his suicide note, Adamec said that he had been tricked into building the darkers' website and that he didn...
...people of Southern Iraq are overjoyed that America has rescued them from Saddam, but there is no open revolt here. What is here instead is a ragtag group of old men and boys on the U.S. payroll who are likely looting their own people and settling private scores...
...right calf. He says that five days before troops entered Iraq, fedayeen forces came to the home of his extended family in Diwaniyah, kicked in the door and took all the men between the ages of 20 and 60. Khalid was later taken to Nasiriyah, where he and a ragtag group of some 40 civilians were handed old Kalashnikovs without ammunition and pushed in front of Iraqi soldiers as they faced down an advancing U.S. armored division. "If we turned back to run away from the Americans, Saddam's men would shoot us," he says. "We had no choice...
...right calf. He says that five days before troops entered Iraq, Fedayeen forces came to the home of his extended family in Diwaniyah, kicked in the door and took all the men between the ages of 20 and 60. Khalid was later taken to Nasiriyah, where he and a ragtag group of some 40 civilians were handed old Kalashnikovs without ammunition and pushed in front of Iraqi soldiers as they faced down an advancing U.S. armored division. "If we turned back to run away from the Americans, Saddam's men would shoot us," he says. "We had no choice...