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...Peshmerga and U.S. Infantry officers discuss the continuing insurgency efforts with the Iraqi Army. "We are one army. But even if you gave millions of dollars to this area, there would still be problems here," said Walleed Rasheed, a member of the Peshmerga who identified himself simply as a soldier. "When the U.S. Army leaves this area, the terrorists will kill a lot of people." The officer sitting next to him, Capt. Afar, added, "We don't want the United States to leave." Across the city, none of the Kurds I spoke to want the Americans to leave...
...exclaimed the soldier with the scanning device...
...Peshmerga and the Sons of Iraq, the Kurds and Arabs alike, are technically members of the same national security force, with which the American military is trying to work closely. Back in the hallway with Ricky and the shaving medic, I thought about this as I interviewed an Arab soldier watching the proceedings. Pvt. Faisal told me that there would be no problems with the Kurds - "as long as they stayed in Kurdistan" - and that he was happy to see the U.S. leave...
...dispatched two envoys, including Shin Bet security services chief Yuval Diskin, to Cairo for indirect talks with Hamas, which may be hung up on details of an exchange. Those talks were extended until Monday night, raising the expectation that Hamas might agree to free the captive soldier, who is hidden somewhere in Gaza. "It's been very tough," Noam Shalit told TIME. "But we can't give up. I have no alternative but to be here, in this tent." But as of Tuesday morning, the envoys had returned from the Cairo talks without a deal on Shalit's release. Diskin...
Israel may be a martial democracy, where generals and war heroes often morph into politicians, but there is an ethos among Israelis that it is worth nearly any sacrifice to bring home the body of a soldier fallen in battle or one taken prisoner. Even families of terrorist victims are pleading for Olmert to strike a deal with Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip and survived a 22-day pummeling by Israel earlier this year. Roni Hirshzon, who lost his son Amir in a suicide-bombing attack, said, "What is the price Hamas demands compared with the life...