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...troubling as these cases are - and no one has yet been convicted - they are still a relatively tiny number of instance where troops may have crossed a moral line, out of the hundreds of U.S. interactions with Iraqis every day of every week. It is a complex, confusing and brutal battlefield, where friend and foe are usually indistinguishable...
...website's rules prohibiting anyone under 14 creating a posting. Solis said the two exchanged e-mails for a month and then swapped cellphone numbers. They agreed to meet on a Friday in mid-May, went out for a hamburger, a movie and then drove to an Austin apartment complex parking lot, where the alleged assault took place...
...reason for the delay in Iran's response may be that its leadership is not nearly as monolithic or unified as is often portrayed. The debate over how to respond to the Western offer is being conducted amid a complex power struggle underway between Iran's firebrand president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and more pragmatic conservative forces (including Larijani) that dominate in the unelected executive bodies that outrank the presidency...
...cooperation between the CIA and Saudi intelligence had broadened. There was still a kernel of distrust - the United States would not show the Saudis its sigint cables - and actionable intelligence it passed along often vanished when it reached the salons of the royal family, whose interests were often inscrutably complex...
...first inkling of trouble surfaced: a gun battle in Riyadh between well-armed terrorists and Saudi security forces. The Saudi government issued a most-wanted list - citing 19 insurgents, including al-Ayeri and al-Ghamdi, and adding photographs. Six days later, explosions ripped through an apartment complex on the outskirts of Riyadh, killing 35 - including nine Americans - and injuring more than 300. War broke out in the streets of Riyadh, as Saudi forces clashed with well-armed al-Qaeda soldiers...