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...governor of Baghdad province. In the past, the responsibility for such high-profile operations has been shouldered by teams of elite U.S. troops. But on this night, the American commandos are playing a support role to members of the new Iraqi army's Counter Terrorism Task Force, a unit the U.S. is training to take on more counterinsurgent dirty work. The early stages of the operation unfold smoothly. One team of troops stops on the second floor, the other continues to the third, where they place explosive charges against a thin wooden apartment door. Two booms in quick succession echo...
...Iraqi special-ops units like the one that captured Tamimi are spearheading that push. TIME was recently granted access to the Iraqi commandos and their U.S. advisors, observed their training sessions and accompanied the units on patrol. While their numbers are few, Iraqi special forces have assumed a bigger role in sensitive counter-insurgent operations, often acting as the lead teams in raids and rescue missions. In some cases, Iraqi units have used intelligence gleaned from locals to identify their own low-level targets, and then execute small raids on their own. Trained by Task Force Pioneer, a unit drawn...
Harvard captain Noah Welch grabbed the first-team nod, the fourth All-ECAC award of his career. As a freshman, Welch was tapped for the league’s all-rookie squad, and was successively named to the ECAC’s second team and honorable-mention unit...
...don’t believe the link between Cambridge and Compton, that’s fine. Decry my “shoddy journalism.” Tell me I’m “lying.” That “G-Unit would never do that...
When Yale was called for a careless too-many-men penalty 11:15 into added time, the Crimson’s lethal top power-play unit was offered a chance at redemption. After Love was forced to rebuff several dangerous looks, the puck came back out to junior forward Julie Chu at the point. Chu cycled it to Vaillancourt at the left face-off circle, who stepped forward before rifling her shot inside the near post for the victory...