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...rescue unit has a sterling record. The 159th Medical Company (Air Ambulance) has whisked more than 3,600 injured and ill troops to medical help with only a handful dying along the way. "We've given people a lot of tomorrows," says Major Arthur Jackson, chief of the unit's Baghdad squad. But many will face grim times. "People say, 'Well, he didn't die,'" says Captain Todd Farrell, a 159th helicopter pilot. "But a lot of these guys have an arm blown off or their leg blown off below the femur. Their lives are still going to suck...
...three wounded soldiers are united not only in their good humor but also their unequivocal support for the war. Wyatt doesn't much care for those who think Bush fudged the intelligence on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. "That makes you feel like you fought for nothing or you fought for a liar," he says. "They're telling me I went out there and I got my leg blown off for a liar, and I know that's just not true." Wyatt says he would stay in the Army if he could remain in a combat unit...
...coalition forces. It is instructive to spend a night with the 82nd Airborne's Alpha Company, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, bivouacked in southern Baghdad. An Iraqi informant reports that 12 to 20 suspected resistance leaders from Afghanistan and Syria are meeting in a mosque near the airport. The unit's commander, Captain Tyson Voelkel, tells his men these foreigners are gathering to review plans to launch terror attacks starting the next day. Some 110 G.I.s plus 40 members of the new Iraqi Civilian Defense Corps training with Alpha Company move in to seal off the area. "I hope...
Saving finesses the controversial details of the rescue, embellished in early accounts. Lynch doesn't empty her rifle when her unit is captured (but the ambush scene is chaotic enough that you might believe she did), nor are the soldiers who rescue her met by Iraqi troops (but the movie tries to gin up suspense anyway). Sigh. It would have been a far less dull picture had the meddling truth...
...worms made the front page and identity theft reached an all-time high, TIME's Board of Technologists keyed us into current cyberthreats and offered us its best solutions. On hand for our round table were David Aucsmith, architect and chief technology officer of Microsoft's Security Business Unit; Dan Geer, a consultant, entrepreneur and lead author of a recent report on the potential risk that widespread use of Microsoft products places on security; Charles Palmer, director of IBM Security & Privacy Research; Sal Stolfo, a Columbia University computer-science professor and member of Professionals for Cyber Defense; and Michael Vatis...