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James T. Kvach, chief scientist in the Defense Intelligence Agency of the Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center, says that, while the country is unified in its effort to achieve as much security as possible, agreeing upon a standard of success—and a route toward achieving it—has no easy answer...
...Americans would be surprised by what the Iraqi standard is for a quiet night,” he said. “They’d be up all night because people are shooting guns...
...have a wedding party and people shoot off AK-47s in celebration,” Moulton said. “So people just have a different standard for danger...
...youngsters, began earlier this month. The students?some of whom previously survived by scavenging in the city's refuse heaps?will learn everything from tidying beds to scrambling eggs. Shinta Mani's 50 full-time staff will also be giving the students on-the-job training. "Seeing the living standard of many of the residents of Siem Reap, you naturally want to try to help," says Martin Dishman, the hotel's general manager...
...Ghraib Prison is, even by Iraq's perversely high standards, a place with a barbarous history. During Saddam Hussein's cruel regime, torture, humiliation and random murder were standard fare within its walls. That was all supposed to have changed when coalition forces took over last year and began filling the jail with captives from the motley Iraqi resistance. But it seems that echoes of those unsavory traditions have persisted...