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...counterattack started here and, invariably, ended here. But on Aug. 5, when government troops stepped onto the bridge, the rebels were waiting for them - with handshakes and hugs. "They looked at me and said, 'We're happy. We want peace,'" says Timothy Daydee, a 29-year-old government soldier. "I looked back and said, 'Yes, I want peace.'" For the rest of the afternoon, the rebels on one side of the bridge danced and waved white flags, while back on the other side Daydee's comrades laughed and milled about, each step sending the carpet of shell casings clinking like...
...American commanders had anticipated, the brothers' deaths were followed by a step up in guerrilla attacks. Last week eight more U. S. soldiers died from hostile fire. U.S. officials hope the uptick, perhaps driven by revenge for the deaths of Uday and Qusay, will be temporary. But TIME spoke to members of a Fedayeen Saddam cell who said their support for the Husseins is not what motivates their attacks on the Americans. "We do it because they degrade us, they occupy our area," said a tribal elder sitting at the head of the gathering. The cell members said they operate...
CIVIL WAR Bashing the President Several enlisted men were prosecuted for lambasting President Lincoln's handling of the war. One soldier had written his family that if Lincoln won re-election, "the country is lost...
...Operation Unfinished The appalling image of a young Iraqi boy lying on the floor while being handcuffed by an American soldier [July 7] only reiterated the horrors of this unjustified war. What right did the soldier have to be in that child's home or, for that matter, in his country? By engaging in the "liberation" of Iraq without caring about world opinion, the U.S. has become extremely vulnerable to all kinds of assaults by fundamentalists. If there is another attack like 9/11, the U.S. had better look to another world for sympathy, because it might not get any from...
...young American backpacker rolls his eyes, leans over and sardonically whispers, "This op's run on a need-to-know basis, soldier." My mission?and I had gleefully chosen to accept it?was to go deep under cover in Bangkok's retail jungle with 4,100 baht (about $100) in pocket to reconnoitre Chatuchak Weekend Market in pursuit of vintage threads...