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Moreover, many Iraqis would argue that these crimes are not the average and seemingly unavoidable incidents that accompany a significant military presence on foreign soil. In other words, it's one thing to deal with the occasional U.S. serviceman, normally sequestered on a large base, who winds up implicated in a criminal incident such as drunken driving, assault or even murder. It's quite another, however, to have thousands of troops fanned out across your country running prison camps and conducting military operations in a shooting war where much of the violence plays out among the civilian population...
...Gadd's criminal record is as checkered as his passport. In 1999, a British judge sentenced him to four months in prison after a computer serviceman discovered 4,000 images of child sex abuse on his computer. "I have served my time. I want to put it all behind me and live my life," Gadd told reporters after completing that sentence. But in 2002, after a move to Cambodia, authorities there permanently expelled Gadd from the country as a "preventative measure" to curb childhood sex abuse. In 2005 police in the southern Vietnamese coastal city of Vung Tau charged Gadd...
...looked terrible after a sleepless night that began with a freezing helicopter ride from Baghdad. And I couldn't hide the fear gnawing at me about my time ahead in Anbar Province, where U.S. forces suffer the highest casualty rates in Iraq. Indeed, I saw my first dead U.S. serviceman as I touched down in Ramadi, a shapeless form in a black body bag waiting in the dark to leave on one the Chinook helicopters that had brought me. The image was fresh in my mind as I introduced myself to McClung, the public affairs officer who had arranged...
...TIME: Your previous works have focused largely on women's views of their bodies. Your new play, The Treatment, however, is about a serviceman tormented by atrocities he may have committed while on duty in the Middle East. What inspired the new topic...
...called Rules of Engagement that every U.S. soldier lives under are constantly changing as the insurgents adopt new tactics. As one U.S. serviceman who served in Iraq explains, "The nature of the fight over there has widely expanded the definition of threat. Car drives too close to your convoy - suicide bomber or stupid driver? Male with a shovel on the side of a road at 2 a.m. - coming home late from work or digging an IED hole? On the roof of a house within line of sight of an IED explosion - trigger man, cameraman, or just enjoying an evening...