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...Department issued a statement declaring that "the U.S. will not suspend contact with individual Palestinians solely on the ground that they hold office in the unity government.") She will urge Abbas to work for "confidence building" moves towards Israel, such as the release of Corporal Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier seized by Hamas inside Israel on June 25. Then she'll shuttle over to Israel, pressing for similar gestures, such as giving the Palestinian populace more freedom of movement...
...Helvenston has problems that military mothers do not have. Her son Scott, who was killed in 2004 at the age of 38, was neither a soldier nor, really, a civilian. He was an ex--Navy seal who worked for a private security firm called Blackwater. Instead of a headstone at Arlington, he has his name etched in a rock at Blackwater's corporate campus in North Carolina. And Helvenston says that three years later, she still has no real answers from the company about what led to her son's death--a death that she believes was due in part...
...suvs with black-tinted windows and automatic weapons pointed at you. Hired guns are even more in evidence at the checkpoints in Baghdad's Green Zone, although there is a hierarchy as to who guards what. The outer gates of compounds are typically guarded by third-country nationals, experienced soldiers of fortune from such countries as Nepal, Chile and Fiji who are paid a fraction of what a British or American former soldier or policeman would get. The highest-paid independent contractors are known as tier-1 personnel. These are the former U.S. special-forces soldiers. On Helvenston's tour...
Ishmael Beah was 13 years old when he was forced to become a child soldier in Sierra Leone in the early 1990s. But in his introduction to a packed room last night, Professor Samantha Power said that, since then, “he has become a rock star of epic proportion.” He spoke at the Institute of Politics last night as part of “I Was A Child Soldier,” a forum on the causes and implications of the conscription of children. “I still like to think of myself...
...portrait of the Green Zone, even if it is driven home rather more emphatically than necessary: Anna and Dan lounge by the pool at a luxurious club as mortar attacks continue outside, and they make love to the sound of gunfire. At the same time, the film portrays U.S. soldiers with a striking lack of nuance. No explanation surfaces for the drowning at Samarra, and members of the military consistently paint themselves as ignorant thugs, spouting phrases such as, “I’m a soldier. Give me some shit to blow up.” With...