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U.S. forces are hitting back, to be sure, having launched a new surprise operation in Western Iraq deploying 1,000 U.S. and Iraqi troops to hit the insurgents in their heartland shortly after the large scale "Operation Matador" that saw a similar number sweeping villages near the Syrian border. And...
McKinney knows that once they have tasted combat, his cadets may view his methods in a new light. "Later on, they are going to understand why I jump on mistakes," he says. "Later on, those might be fatal mistakes, ones they can't take back." He looks for ways to...
When he graduated in 1993, Amerine was commissioned a lieutenant in what had essentially become the world's most muscular police department. His first taste of combat, during a Cuban-refugee riot in Panama in which every member of his unit was wounded, was not even labeled combat. None of...
The explosion could be heard two miles away in the Yarmouk Hospital. Dr. Jalal Taha Emad told his crew to prepare to receive the wounded. "I heard the explosion in the distance," he says, "and I guessed that the ER was going to get very busy."
At the explosion site, the arrival of a police patrol finally signaled that it was safe to approach the three wounded men. Even then some people in the crowd were motivated not by sympathy but by greed: they tried to steal money from Abu Karam's pockets. "I was shocked...