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...film also showed that Kerr could play something tougher than a lady: a woman. As the company commander's wife in Pearl Harbor just before the war, she's a siren this time, a notorious lay on Army barracks from New Jersey to Hawaii. "Her and them sweaters!" one soldier says as she walks toward him. In curly blond hair and a halter dress like the one Monroe wore two years later in The Seven Year Itch, Kerr lasers a knowing, weary sensuality. On the beach with a beau, when she removes her skirt to reveal a swimsuit, she could...
...roadside bomb blast that killed Australian soldier David Pearce in southern Afghanistan on Oct. 8 reflects a new turn in the tactics of Taliban fighters bent on recapturing the country. Regularly bested by Coalition forces in battle, the Taliban are making increasingly effective use of improvised explosive devices - and of intimidation...
...Australian leaders responded to Pearce's death by restating their commitment to the U.N. effort to secure and rebuild Afghanistan. "It's a just cause and this soldier was part of an Australian contribution to that just cause," P.M. John Howard said. Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd said a Labor government would consider sending more troops...
...turning over Hashem for execution would be a "gross miscarriage of justice." The CIA officer also confirmed longstanding reports that the U.S. had, in fact, sought to bring Hashem into a senior role in a post-invasion Iraqi government because of his identity as a Sunni, and as a "soldier's soldier" who was respected by a broad spectrum of the military...
...upheld by an appeals court, but several Iraqi politicians, including President Jalal Talibani have spoken out against hanging Hashem. Although Talabani has consistently opposed the death penalty on principle - even in the case of Saddam Hussein - other politicians may be concerned that the execution of a respected Sunni soldier could be disruptive to national reconciliation in an Iraq deeply divided along sectarian lines...