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...That grim assessment, made only hours before yet another downing, suggests problems ahead if the U.S. decides to fill the skies above Baghdad with helicopters as part of its surge strategy. It's a safe bet, given the flurry of downings, that U.S. military helicopters will be flying less frequently in the days to come - and more frequently in the nights to come...
...wail of sirens follows almost every explosion in Baghdad, marking the progress of men like Mohammed to the scene of the latest calamity. He's been an ambulance driver for the past five years in a city where no job is safe, but where driving an ambulance is easily one of the riskiest professions. He long ago lost count of the number of times he's been fired on. Once, on Palestine Street, the bullets actually shattered the windows of his ambulance as he sped down the road. He's in it for the money, earning about $150 a month...
...down empty streets at 4 a.m. without batting an eyelash and leave my computer unattended in the library for hours at a time—it’s a white Macbook; please don’t take it. Among the plethora of resources here designed to keep students safe, I get more comfort from the idea of a Harvard haven than from campus escorts or self-defense classes...
...into the man's calf. Screaming with pain, the man hopped wildly on one leg, trying to shake the cat off. The others also tried to grab Fluffy, but the agile cat ran out of the house and climbed onto his favorite branch of the magnolia tree. From this safe perch, Fluffy looked at us and mewed. The wounded man was almost demented. He dashed to the tree and shook it. Fluffy hopped up to a higher branch, ran onto the roof of my neighbor's house and disappeared into the night. One of the men said, ''You keep...
...humanitarian catastrophe inside Iraq will be horrific, but unless the U.S. is prepared intervene with 450,000 soldiers, the report recommends that it should pull its smaller force "back from Iraqi population centers" to safe havens "and refocus American efforts from preventing civil war to containing...