Word: soldier
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...brief lull allowed some of the Lebanese soldiers surrounding Nahr al-Bared a chance to rest after three days of tension and fighting. "They are a very tough enemy. They don't surrender. They will all fight to the end," said one special forces soldier, sitting beside a foxhole smoking a cigarette. Several other exhausted and bleary-eyed soldiers sat in silence smoking in the garden of a small mosque that had been requisitioned by the army as a fighting position. From the back of the mosque the smoking ruins of the camp's first buildings lay only 200 yards...
...Although a crowd of onlookers cheered as Lebanese troops poured machine gun fire into the buildings, one soldier grumbled that when the troops first arrived on the scene some local residents has tried to hide the militants. "They have supporters here," he said. The government is vowing to finish Fatah al-Islam once and for all, but the struggle to contain rising Sunni extremist sentiment in Lebanon promises to be a long battle...
...addled Charlton Heston on gun control, buttonholing Congressmen to see if any of them had actually read the Patriot Act - but the Cuba jaunt tops them all. It begins when he hears Congressional testimony indicating that detainees at Guantanamo were getting free colonscopies and nutrition counseling. (One female soldier cited in the film says, "They get way better health care than I do.") So he rounded up several volunteer rescue workers from the World Trade Center site who had suffered respiratory and other diseases and said their medical plans did not cover treatment for all their ailments...
Eventually Mohammed, 24, wound up in a cell at Abu Ghraib, where he was beaten for hiding a pack of cigarettes. A woman soldier that he recalled as "so beautiful" pushed his arms through the bars of the cell and cuffed them so tightly he couldn't move. Then, he says, she poked his eye with her finger so hard he couldn't see afterward. Three months after the incident, Mohammed's left eye was gray and glassy, allowing only modest vision of blurry shapes. He says the guards at Abu Ghraib drank whisky and walked the halls with cans...
...attack. It remains unclear whether Pappas received any treatment. But one of his subordinates, intelligence analyst Armin Cruz, who was later accused of abuse at Abu Ghraib, specifically cited the Sept. 20 mortar attack at his plea bargain. Cruz, who struggled unsuccessfully to save the life of a fellow soldier wounded in the attack, claimed he had repeatedly sought and failed to receive treatment for shell shock in its aftermath. At his sentencing, a military judge asked Cruz to explain why he had forced prisoners to strip naked. After a long pause, Cruz said, he had mentally connected the prisoners...