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...things weren't already murky enough, they grew darker on Friday, when Green Beret Sergeant Nathan Ross Chapman became the first U.S. serviceman to die from enemy fire during the three-month campaign. (In all, five Americans have died in Afghanistan.) Chapman, a 12-year-veteran communications specialist from San Antonio, Texas, was killed by small-arms fire Friday during an ambush near Khost, a city a few miles from the Pakistani border, near where U.S. warplanes had attacked an al-Qaeda training camp earlier in the week. A cia officer was wounded in the same ambush...
...course, were Arab Americans, many of whom suffered that day and have suffered since from a special pressure and scrutiny from neighbors and strangers alike. Jamal Baadani, a staff sergeant in the Marine Corps who was born to Yemenite parents and raised in both Egypt and Michigan, knows this intimately. "I was out to dinner with one of my fellow Marines in uniform," he says, "and someone went up to me and started talking to me about what was going on, and she said, 'Yeah, those Arabs are all knuckleheads,' not realizing I was one. And another day, a woman...
...wake of a Harvard junior’s recent allegations that a Boston Police Department (BPD) sergeant beat him up, another charge of improper conduct against officers from the same Brighton police station has emerged: UMass-Boston undergraduate Matthew E. Cole and his lawyer, John Swomley, say they are preparing to file charges against BPD in response to a black eye Cole allegedly suffered in a police raid of a party at his home...
Cole’s charges, coming about two months after Trombly alleged a BPD sergeant assaulted him, shine a brighter spotlight on a department already conducting an internal investigation of Trombly’s claims...
...Byrne] very well could have overstepped his authority,” Evans said. “If that’s what Sergeant Byrne did, he gets what he deserves. I don’t think anyone deserves [Trombly’s injuries], if that is what happened...