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Lieut. General Moshe Yaalon is used to visiting wounded Israeli soldiers in hospitals. But the tousle-haired 22-year-old at whose bedside the chief of Israel's army sat last week was a civilian, and it wasn't a Palestinian bullet that severed an artery in his left leg and destroyed his right knee. An Israeli soldier shot Gil Naamati as he protested at the section of the "security fence" that cuts through the West Bank village of Masha. Naamati was hit by live ammunition after he clipped a piece of razor wire. "You shouldn't have done that...
Krauthammer's Commentary was well balanced and intelligent. Soldiers are fighting men and women. Victory or defeat and death are part and parcel of being a military person. I am sure every patriotic American feels the pain when news reaches us that yet another soldier has been killed in the line of duty. But freedom and preservation of our way of life come at a price. ADI DAMANIA Woodland, Calif...
...seems, new legends are emerging. U.S. government sources familiar with the accounts given by troops who helped capture Saddam tell TIME that the fallen dictator apparently made one feeble attempt at defiance. As soldiers were handcuffing him after he was extracted from his "spider hole," these sources say, Saddam spit on his captor. As the incident was reported by the military, according to a U.S. source, a soldier promptly slugged the old tyrant--probably the first time in more than two decades that Saddam was powerless to exact lethal revenge on someone who stood...
...official military spokeswoman in Iraq claims no knowledge of the incident. "I think this is an urban legend," she says. But the full story is yet to be told. A U.S. intelligence official, meanwhile, casts doubt on another widely reported tale: that a U.S. soldier hailed the nemesis of two Commanders in Chief named George Bush by saying: "Regards from President Bush." This person says some officials suspect the story is "apocryphal...
...been called soft and tough, resourceful and unskilled, unbelievably brave and unbelievably timid, thoroughly disciplined and scornful of discipline. One way or another, all of these generalizations are valid. He is a peculiar soldier, product of a peculiar country. His two outstanding characteristics seem to be contradictory. He is more of an individualist than soldiers of other nations, and at the same time he is far more conscious of, and dependent on, teamwork. He fights as he lives, a part of a vast, complicated machine--but a thinking, deciding part...