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...Pentagon Thursday confirmed for the first time that Specialist Ahmed al-Taie, a reservist assigned to the Provincial Reconstruction Team Baghdad, has been "unaccounted for" since Oct. 23 at 4:30 p.m.; he is currently listed as "duty status whereabouts unknown." Family members of the 41-year-old Iraqi-American from Ann Arbor, Mich., say he was nabbed by a gang claiming to be from the Mahdi Army while he was on an unauthorized trip outside the fortified Green Zone to visit his wife in Baghdad...
Ehud Olmert has some new neighbors. In a rose garden across from the Israeli Prime Minister's Jerusalem office, a squad of angry army reservists and their families have pitched a cluster of igloo tents, and it looks as if they will be staying for a while. They've connected a refrigerator and a TV set to the electricity main, and, says an infantry reservist, they will camp out in Olmert's rose garden until "this loser, the Prime Minister, goes home...
...week at camp. "Nonmilitary people don't know what it's like to have someone you love in an uncivilized, faraway place tell you on the phone, 'Oh, that's a car bomb going off, but I'm kind of used to it,'" says Courtney Rinnert, 11, whose Army Reservist stepdad spent 15 months in Iraq. "These people share the same experience...
...translated for some. "People in the States think I'm living in the desert, one step ahead of someone who wants to put me in an orange jumpsuit," says Harry Schute, a consultant to Kurdistan's Interior Ministry who was deployed to Iraq in 2003 as a U.S. Army reservist. Yet keeping Kurdistan calm requires a heavy military force. Time traveled four hours north from Arbil to DNO's rig in an armored vehicle, on a road marked by several peshmerga checkpoints. DNO asked Time not to publish its Kurdish employees' real names for fear they would be attacked...
...mission. Supporters of the German coalition government questioned whether such a small number of troops could really make a difference, and warned against mission creep. "The probability that we are not getting out in four months is high," said Johannes Kahrs of the Social Democratic Party, himself a military reservist. But for Europeans who have soured on mass immigration, stabilizing Congo may be preferable to having to cope with thousands trying to escape the fighting. "If we do not succeed, this would result in more waves of refugees [into] Europe and Germany," government spokesman Ulrich Wilhelm said last week...