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...What was it like when you first got to Iraq and you went on your first mission? The first recovery that I went on - this was in '03 - it was in the city where Jessica Lynch was captured, Nasiriyah. What happened was you had two tanks rolling through the streets of this very crowded city. One tank was ambushed by insurgents, [and] the second tank called in for air support to quell the ambush. The plane that came in had a friendly-fire incident on the first tank, and 14 servicemen passed away...
...what we had to do was go in, recover this tank and try to tentatively figure out who was in it and collect all the evidence. This was all done at a time when there were a lot of insurgents in the area. There were thousands of people on either side of the road, so we had to do crowd control in order to give ourselves room to do our work. We had the crowd pushing forward, so we had to push them back. And there were rooftops everywhere. It was a very sticky situation. But we ended up recovering...
...official statistics. "From a sociological point of view, I'm for it, just as I'd be inclined to include any qualitative statistic as revelatory and essential to social, political and economic evolution as race is," says Dominique Reynié, president of the Foundation for Political Innovation, a think tank in Paris. "It's not just a valuable tool - it's one that may offer ways of combating discrimination...
...have to distinguish between the content of the message and its form," says Nicolas Sartorius, president of the Madrid-based Alternatives Foundation, a foreign-policy think tank. "In terms of content, it would have been inconsistent for the government to keep forces in a country it doesn't recognize. But in terms of the form in which it was delivered, well, obviously something wasn't done right...
...After all, if there's one federal institution that industry pays more attention to than the White House, it's the Pentagon. Indeed, the impact of the British military's call in February was immediately recognizable: one day after the publication of the "Defense Technology Plan," the august think tank the Royal United Services Institute held a conference in London, sponsored by defense giant BAE Systems, called "Alternative Energy and Sustainability for the Military." Representatives from Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems and various academic institutions were in attendance. "Look, we can be agnostic about the politics of climate change," MOD science...