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...Even his final stop on this second foreign tour as Pope, at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp later on Sunday, was in many ways a tribute to his predecessor. John Paul II himself visited the death camp on his first return to Poland as Pope in 1979, an early sign of how committed he was to healing the wounds between Catholicism and Judaism. But Benedict's arrival here on Sunday was also rich with its own significance...
...Oxyride is most suited to run: digital cameras, MP3 players and handheld games. So the company advertises heavily on youth-magnet media such as MySpace com Yahoo! Instant Messenger and MTV com Panasonic has also become the battery sponsor of Anheuser-Busch theme parks and the Dew Action Sports Tour, a competition featuring skateboarding, BMX biking and freestyle motocross...
...outfit known as Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, wasn't new to Iraq last year when it moved into Haditha, a Euphrates River farming town about 150 miles northwest of Baghdad. Several members of the unit were on their second tour of Iraq; one was on his third. The men in Kilo Company were veterans of ferocious house-to-house fighting in Fallujah. Their combat experience seemed to prepare them for the ordeal of serving in an insurgent stronghold like Haditha, the kind of place where the enemy attacks U.S. troops from the cover of mosques, schools...
Military sources told TIME that the first probe is focusing on the unit's leader, who was at the scene of virtually every shooting that day in Haditha. Pentagon officials say the sergeant has served more than seven years in the corps and was on his first Iraq tour. At least two other enlisted men may be directly involved, Pentagon officials say, and perhaps as many as nine others in the 13-man unit witnessed the shootings but neither attempted to step in nor reported them later...
Only months after finishing that tour, Jim was deployed again, this time to Kuwait. He has had weeks to get his men and his aircraft ready, whereas Laura's battalion is still assembling aircraft and preparing to move to a newly built camp closer to the action but farther away from hot meals and telephones. Signs that the battle is approaching multiply by the day: the electrified fence along the border has tank doorways cut through it. The U.N. border observers are pulling out, and civilian officials are pulling back. At the various base camps, soldiers can wait in line...