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...keep his government from crumbling. Additionally, an inquiry into Israel's messy summer 2006 war in Lebanon is due out on Monday, and it is expected to lambaste Olmert and his novice Defense Minister Amir Peretz. Furthermore, the danger exists that militants could retaliate by executing the captive Israeli soldier...
...were just 17 - taunted and mocked by laughing executioners. At one point, one of the Scorpions asks a tied-up Muslim boy, who lies face down waiting to be shot: "Have you ever f - -ed?" The boy answers no. "Well, you're not going to, ever," replies the soldier, and all his comrades laugh...
Considering the evidence, harsh sentences had been expected. The commander of the group and one other soldier received the maximum penalty, 20 years, while a Scorpion who had confessed got 13 years. The man taped mocking the boy got only five years because the court found that he didn't pull the trigger himself. Most disappointing, the judge seemed eager to absolve the Serbian government and, to some extent, the accused. She called the Scorpions an "irregular volunteer unit," insisted they had no relationship with any branch of government in Serbia, and said there was no evidence that the deceased...
...same as that of many other military wives. My husband is well on the way to his third tour in Iraq. We have two little girls who barely know their father. Each time he deploys, I brace myself; he may not come home alive. And when my soldier is home, he isn't resting. He is hard at work training in the classroom and the field. How long can we sustain this lifestyle? It is high time for military families to stand up to this Administration and say, No more...
Each April 25, on ANZAC Day, Australians honor the valor of their soldiers in wars past and present. In recent years, thousands of troops-more than at any time since Vietnam-have served in harm's way in Iraq and Afghanistan, and their actions have won praise at home and abroad. But one soldier's fate suggests that once they leave the military, some veterans face a hard and lonely time...