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...demanded to see badges. They contend the cops hurled John against a wall and hauled him cuffed and bleeding to the station house in Chinatown. Left behind, Jane made her way to the station and, with no money and a jailed husband, accepted a ride home from a police sergeant...
...entered the Does' apartment, where, according to the sergeant's lawyer, "no wrongdoing went on." (The lawyer refused to comment further.) But according to Jane, the sergeant attacked: he kissed her and rubbed her breasts. She resisted, and he finally left, but the next day he put "threatening" messages on her voice mail...
...While the new Afghan recruits are often fearless fighters - nearly three decades of continuous war has instilled a stoic acceptance of pain and privation that would hobble most modern militaries - few are prepared for the discipline required for service in a regular army. One U.S. drill sergeant wryly recognizes that time is an elastic concept for most of his trainees, and a tribal leader from Helmand estimates that any given day finds as many as half of the ANA soldiers in his province stoned on hashish...
...lead civilian defense counsel, Neal Puckett, made clear that his client plans to mount a vigorous defense: "He did what he was supposed to do to protect himself," said Puckett. "Iraq is a very dangerous environment for our Marines. Any action they take can result in death. Everything Staff Sergeant Wuterich did that day was to protect his Marines and keep them from harm...
...soldiers took Selesitino or why he was singled out. But documents lodged in support of civil lawsuits by the three CRW soldiers who survived beatings give a chilling insight into what might have happened. The soldiers "seized me at gunpoint and handcuffed my hands behind my back," said Sergeant Viliame Lotawa of the night he was taken from the police station. "I was punched, kicked and beaten with blunt objects such as rifle butts and iron rods. I was beaten all the way to [Queen Elizabeth Barracks]." Lotawa says his attackers included a former Fijian rugby international, Sergeant Jack Komaitai...