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...massaged her feet and kissed her. He told her stories about all the water and juice they would drink when it was finally over. "He was so good to me," says Kasumova, a department head at the school, of her son, who, like the other children, became a soldier that...
...months in prison; in New York City. He is appealing a May conviction for hindering a federal stock investigation involving Credit Suisse First Boston, but will be forced to begin serving prison time in late October while the appeal is pending. SENTENCED. SIMON MANN, 51, British former special forces soldier and supplier of security and military services; to seven years in prison; in Harare, Zimbabwe. Mann was arrested in March at Harare airport as he tried to take delivery of a $180,000 arms consignment, allegedly for a coup in Equatorial Guinea. The 65 suspected mercenaries arrested along with...
...DIED. LEONARDUS BENYAMIN (BENNY) MURDANI, 71, Indonesian general who plotted the 1975 invasion of East Timor; in Jakarta. A lifelong soldier, Murdani rose to prominence as a member of Indonesia's ?lite parachute battalion during the 1962 invasion of then Dutch-controlled West Papua. The attack on East Timor and subsequent occupation sparked a guerrilla war and led to the deaths of some 200,000 East Timorese over two decades. Jakarta withdrew its forces after a U.N. supervised referendum in 1999 in which the onetime Portuguese colony voted overwhelmingly for independence...
...about--the campaign, the presidency, the one thing he has learned for certain after nearly four years as leader of the free world. "If I didn't think it was possible," he says, "I would bring the troops home tomorrow. Why would I risk losing one more soldier's life? But you know what? The whole world is watching. And we cannot waver now or show any doubt." Otherwise, not only will Iraq and Afghanistan fail but other vulnerable states will as well. On one thing at least he and John Kerry agree: the stakes could not be higher...
More than 1,100 coalition troops have died in Iraq, and thousands more have been wounded. If you're looking for a more detailed breakdown of these numbers, check out ICASUALTIES.ORG, a website that provides data based on official death counts from coalition countries, including each soldier's name, hometown, unit and date of death. The names of the deceased can be viewed by time period and type of incident...