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Alas poor Harry. whatever you think about the wisdom of mounting a complex operation to deploy one inexperienced 23-year-old soldier to the frontline of a controversial war; whether your instincts are royalist or republican; if you are disturbed by the spectacle of Britain's usually tenacious media bowing to the wishes of palace, military and government, and suppressing a story - no matter what your response to the Afghanistan adventuring of Britain's warrior prince, it's hard not to feel sorry...
...prince. The same fate threatened Harry until his star turn in the theater of war recast him as a hero and champion recruiter for Britain's armed forces. Just a few nights on the tiles could dent his new-minted image. It would be normal behavior for any young soldier on R&R, but normality isn't and can never be the province of princes...
...says. “This is how things that you thought were absurd become normal.”The exhibit, which opened last Saturday at Harvard Hillel and is sponsored and hosted by the Harvard College Progressive Jewish Alliance (PJA), portrays the daily life of Israeli soldiers who served in the occupied Palestinian territories.On Saturday, a crowd of nearly 200 moved from table to table, viewing each collection of photographs portraying a different facet of Israeli military life.With the exhibit running over the next two weeks, contention has risen not betweem Israelis and Palestinians, but within Harvard?...
...Saadi family allege they had been traveling in their vehicle in a street near the Australian embassy in Baghdad on the evening of February 26, 2005, when they were fired upon without warning. Nezar al-Saadi claims that when he stopped his car, an Australian soldier knelt down and fired four rounds into the passenger side of the vehicle, according to a statement filed in a Brisbane court last week...
...leading Hamas politician in Gaza told TIME that his movement would accept a cease-fire if Israel stopped its air strikes and opened the border crossings into Gaza. He also pressed Israel to agree to release Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the freedom of Corporal Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier kidnapped in June 2006. Israel has, until now, refused to discuss a truce with Hamas, which it (together with the U.S. and European Union) considers a terrorist organization. And, facing international sanctions designed to oust it from power, Hamas has shown no inclination to halt rockets being fired into southern...