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Abbas loaded his family into their Peugeot station wagon and started speeding away. They were immediately shot up. It could have been the U.S. helicopter that had just dodged fire coming from his house. "I don't know who shot us," says Abbas, who has a white bandage wrapped around his head. "But I know the Americans saved my life." Abbas was picked up by a Black Hawk helicopter and flown to the base. His wife is in the hospital with him. His brother was evacuated to the Comfort. The five kids in the car all were killed...
...grove, lobs a grenade over a small berm and opens fire on a group of men. When the shooting stops, Marines spread through Afak while human exploitation teams, U.S. soldiers who collect information, start interviewing locals. A group of Iraqis hanging out in front of a run-down gas station tell the Marines that all is cool, but clearly it is not. "Will this be a place where you Americans will stay, or will the Iraqis, the Baath Party, come back?" one of them asks. "I need to know before I can speak...
...pictures by satellite phone whenever his convoy came to an occasional halt. When the Marines secured the town of At Tahrir, about 100 miles south of Baghdad, Nickelsberg followed as they went house to house, rounding up high-profile civilians for questioning. "They also entered the local police station," he says, "and removed the police...
Some war blogs are first-hand accounts from soldiers stationed in the Middle East. The anonymous author at lt-smash.us says he is a reservist in the U.S. military stationed in the Persian Gulf. In one entry, he writes about a recent encounter with some locals: "They were glued to their satellite TV set, switching between al-Jazeera, Fox News, BBC, the local station and Iraqi TV. They especially enjoyed the female anchor on Fox, with her short skirt." At sgtstryker.com the mother of a female Marine posts excerpts from her daughter's e-mails. And at chinpokomon.com Naval Lieut. Commander...
Chen Weijun won't win any prestigious prizes for the TV shows he produces for the local TV station in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. His reports on patriotic celebrations and official history lessons are the standard, sanitized fare characteristic of China's government programming. But that's just his day job. The filming Chen really cares about?what he calls "the most important thing I've done in my life"?he does surreptitiously in his spare time...