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...screams a gunner as he spots al-Qaeda fighters dart in front of him. "Just kill people to the north," a sergeant bellows. "Light him up," cries another soldier as a gunman approaches. On Nov. 17, even as Representative John Murtha was stirring debate on Capitol Hill by calling for an immediate redeployment of U.S. troops, the young soldiers of Blue Platoon were amid a citywide battle that revealed just how hard it will be to pull U.S. troops out soon...
...head of Iraqi intelligence in the 1980s, in a trailer. Inexplicably, he appeared with a scarf wrapped around his head so that they could see only his eyes. They say they were not allowed to see his face and were told not to hand him any papers. A U.S. soldier sat at the table with the lawyers during the duration of their visit. The two men had just two hours to prepare their client to answer questions he might be asked by the judge. "For reasons of security," TIME's request to visit the facility to confirm the account...
...first Qing Emperor, who died in a smallpox epidemic. Surviving the contagion (with scars intact, as portraits show), Kangxi worked skillfully to identify himself with both his native tribal culture and the scholarly traditions of the Chinese. Two likenesses, commissioned when he was about 30, demonstrate his Manchu soldier?Chinese scholar balancing act. A vibrant silk hanging scroll shows him in Manchu military armor, with crossbow and arrows at the ready. Like most of his tribe, he was an expert archer - and, as ruler of a still restive empire, he relished his role as commander in chief. In the other...
...child soldier hidden in the bush, machete in his hand, insects crawling slowly across his exposed flesh, is waiting for the order to kill. “You want to be a soldier enh? Well—kill him. KILL HIM NOW!”This sort of guttural visceral action characterizes the majority of Uzodinma Iweala ’04’s “Beasts of No Nation”; the rapturously reviewed debut novel is the story of Agu, a child soldier in an unnamed African country. “Beasts” was originally written...
...There are other hints of unpleasantness: In the center of town, we pass a poster of a huge fist smashing down on a startled soldier. An American? I ask. ?You can think like that,? replies our guide. Later, chief minder Choe Jong Hun lectures us on Washington's treacherous attempts to get North Korea to disarm unilaterally through the six-party nuclear talks (the latest round last week produced no results). ?After that the U.S. is going to invade our country,? says Choe. ?Such talks are not necessary...