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...devastatingly violent response by a group of U.S. troops who had lost one of their own to a deadly insurgent attack and believed they were under fire. TIME obtained a videotape that purports to show the aftermath of the Marines' assault and provides graphic documentation of its human toll. What happened in Haditha is a reminder of the horrors faced by civilians caught in the middle of war--and what war can do to the people who fight...
...shrewd North American gamesmanship: former PM Jean Chr?tien, who had angered Washington with his refusal to participate in the Iraq war, was able to claim that Canada's Afghanistan commitment made it impossible to send Canadian soldiers elsewhere in the Middle East. Since then, including this month's toll, 10 Canadian soldiers and one civilian official (from the Foreign Affairs Ministry) have been killed and 40 Canadian soldiers injured. As the casualties mount, warns Rudd, Canadians need a full national hearing on Afghanistan before Ottawa decides whether to extend Canada's mission beyond its scheduled pullout date next February. Adds...
...ambiguity surrounding the death toll continues to feed into the paranoid nature of Iraqi politics. The most ghastly rumors are routinely believed to be true because so many Sunnis are ready to believe the worst about the Iraqi government and its American backers. Not even government employees are immune to skepticism. ?What 1,300?? said an official in the office of a senior Iraq government minister. ?Yesterday?s (Monday?s) death toll alone was 230.? He elaborated that 230 people-mostly Sunni-were killed Monday in a single Baghdad neighborhood. He spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity...
...trains and barges could be targeted by terrorists to devastating effect. All told, there are about 15,000 chemical plants, refineries and other sites in the U.S. that store large quantities of hazardous materials on their property. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, there are 709 sites where the toll of death or injury from a catastrophic disaster at a chemical plant could reach from 100,000 to more than 1 million people...
...upward revision of the economy's size means that China's spending on education, health care and other programs is even smaller as a proportion of the economy than previously thought. And industrialization is taking a toll. Several industries, including steel and automobiles, have been growing so rapidly that they now have problems of overcapacity. Still, with 300 million rural laborers in China eager to join the industrialization push, and at wages that are a small fraction of what Americans or West Europeans earn, the downward pressure on jobs and salaries worldwide is likely to continue. Ford's late-January...