Word: soldierism
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However, the predictable plot and obvious ending—he lives to write the book—give Crawford the freedom to focus on his experiences in the army. He writes in short, fast-paced episodes, vivid snapshots of daily life as a soldier in Baghdad...
After a night in the cold, Delta Company is still stuck on the mountain. Word comes by radio that no choppers are flying over southern Afghanistan because a Chinook has gone down elsewhere. The soldiers are stranded for at least another day. A bearlike Afghan guide named Siddiq is asked if he thinks the Taliban are gone. "They'll come back for their dead," he says. Several hours later, a soldier spies an insurgent observing the U.S. position from a ridge about 1,500 yds. away. A gunner opens up with a Mark-19, which fires grenades that tattoo...
...early September, when al-Qaeda's number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri, claimed responsibility for the attacks in two videotapes, one of which also featured a recording by the apparent ringleader, 30-year-old Mohammed Sidique Khan. TIME has learned that Khan, who described himself in the tape as a "soldier" inspired by Osama bin Laden, may have had a much more direct and long-term involvement with al-Qaeda than previously thought?and also a connection to Southeast Asian terrorist groups. A regional security official tells TIME that an Islamic radical currently detained in Malaysia has admitted that he acted...
...biggest-selling download album ever. All the proceeds go to the charity War Child, which assists children affected by violent conflicts all over the world. The musicians involved have rallied to that cause, but only one fully understands the appalling realities of its mission: Emmanuel Jal, onetime child soldier in Sudan and now a fast-rising star of African rap. Jal's new album, Ceasefire, released in Britain this week, is an appeal for peace, rather than money. And although he's now a powerful spokesman for campaigns like Make Poverty History and the Coalition to Stop...
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