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...minutes. These days they focus too on how not to offend local sensibilities, no longer searching veiled women, for example. ("But if I find an Afghan woman who is 6 ft. 5 in."--Osama bin Laden's height--"I'm sure as hell going to have her searched," says Sergeant Vernon Story.) Soldiers are also learning to be more wary regarding tips about al-Qaeda suspects; the U.S. has often been duped into taking sides in tribal feuds...
...sign that the resistance is hardening: the assaults, says a senior military official, "are increasing in sophistication." He cites more frequent use of improvised explosive devices as well as standoff weapons like mortars. "They've been getting more and more organized," says Sergeant Joseph Teague of the 101st Airborne, whose platoon patrols the town of Ba'aj, southwest of Mosul. Teague has been ambushed twice in the past two weeks. "In the last two attacks," he says, "they've shot at us from all sides...
...live is to kill because you don't have to worry about anybody who's dead." William Doyle, former sergeant in the U.S. Army's ?lite "Tiger Force," which, according to a Toledo Blade investigation, killed more than 100 civilians in a seven-month Vietnam War rampage...
Eastwood returns the compliments. "My saying for Sean is, 'He's rated high, and he's better than he's rated.' He's got a work ethic I like. He's very, very ready to go." Sounding like a drill sergeant with a soft streak, Eastwood praises the entire cast. "They'd come to the set on time and prepared. I try to catch a scene where it feels like the words are said for the very first time. Some actors get it right away, and some don't. These actors got it right away...
...Sergeant Roger Vazquez decided the bleeding attacker might still be a threat and sprinted into the street to drag him away and search him for weapons. He grabbed the man by the belt and started pulling him under an overhang. A machine gun opened up from the roof across the street, and bullets hit the dirt around Vazquez's feet. The gunman's body was stuck on the curb. "Leave him, leave him," shouted a soldier. Still Vazquez persevered, getting the man onto the sidewalk and out of the line of fire. Vazquez patted him down, taking...