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According to an affidavit based on sworn statements from several members of Green's infantry unit, Green and three other soldiers abandoned the traffic checkpoint they were manning 20 miles south of Baghdad, in a region littered with roadside bombs, before heading to Abeer's house. Some of them had been drinking, and all but one had changed out of their uniforms, allegedly to avoid easy identification. A fifth soldier, who remained at the checkpoint to monitor the radio, said that when the men returned in bloodied clothes, each of them told him not to speak of the incident again...
...malnutrition, pneumonia, and anemia, he is now naked, pale, and wide eyed; his frail ribcage is clearly visible through almost translucent skin. I hold his hands to the blood- and urine-stained mattress as a nurse in flip-flops sticks him repeatedly with a needle, trying to transfuse a unit of expired blood.A fly lands on his eyeball and he doesn’t blink. The intravenous line slips out of his forearm and sprays blood all over the floor. The nurse throws her hands up in the air, chucks the unit of blood in the trash, and bends down...
...Taliban, the night letters are a cost-effective way to exploit such anxieties. "They don't have weapons to come to town to fight," says Captain Jammilla Bargzai, head of the Kandahar police department's crime-investigation unit. "Their only weapon is to scare people." Her bravado fades when she begins to talk about her own fears. Bargzai hasn't seen any night letters posted in her neighborhood, but her neighbors have told her that strangers on motorbikes have asked about her and marked her house. She has moved six times in the past year. "If I see a strange...
...Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former Russian oligarch currently serving a jail sentence in Siberia. The Kremlin broke up his oil company, Yukos, in 2004 with a combination of criminal fraud charges against executives and massive back-tax claims that far exceeded the firm's revenue. Yukos' main oil-production unit was auctioned off to a single low bidder that turned out to be a front company for Rosneft. Those confiscated Yukos assets now constitute about 70% of Rosneft's oil production and reserves. The company's initial public offering (ipo) prospectus lists more than $47 billion in outstanding legal claims relating...
...family began as--and remains--a survival unit, with parents agreeing to care for the kids, the kids agreeing to carry on the genes and all of them doing what they can to make sure no one gets eaten by wolves. But the resources that make this possible are limited. "Economic means, types of jobs, even love and affection are in finite supply," says psychologist Mark Feinberg of Penn State. Parents, despite themselves, are programmed to notice the child who seems most worthy of the investment. While millenniums of socialization have helped us resist and even reverse this impulse...