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...country, and members of Congress were hearing about it from their constituents during recess. "Iraq was the No. 1 issue on people's minds," says Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins. Her state has the third highest rate of deployed National Guard members and reserves in the country. One reserve unit, the 94th Military Police Company, has been deployed overseas on active duty for 2 1/2 of the past four years. The reservists were finally scheduled to come home on Easter weekend, but their tour was extended three months. "To make matters worse," Collins says, "they literally were...
...night before the game, Tillman showed up at McGinnis' Seattle hotel room along with his wife Marie and his brother Kevin, who had signed up and fought with him in the same unit in Iraq. Two other friends were also in tow. Both brothers were taking part in a three-month Ranger training program. "Pat told me right off," says McGinnis, 'Coach, there are some things I can talk about and some things I just...
Harvard’s own Tha League are celebrated for being a charismatic, skilled unit of rappers, and their stage presence and lyrical polish was clear. So was the impact of their homegrown beats (from Dominique C. Deleon ’04), which sound infinitely better coming through a big system than they do on the Veritas Records compilation. But an hour-long set was perhaps too much to expect. If, as they say, they’re just doing their own thing, it’s ambiguous who their ideal audience might be if not Harvard students. Perhaps...
...local Marine commander, and will be charged with subduing insurgent activity in the city to end attacks from there on Coalition forces. Many of the insurgents fighting in Fallujah are believed to be former members of Saddam's Republican Guard and intelligence services, to whom an Iraqi unit comprised of members of the old army and run by a familiar commander may appear to be a friendly force. That may give it the capacity to enforce a cease-fire and end the immediate crisis, although it is questionable whether such a force would be going in for a fight...
...fight the insurgents. After the initial mutiny three weeks ago, comfort was taken in the fact that the 36th Battalion of Iraqi Civil Defense Corps had held firm. Or at least they had until last week. The Iraqi Defense Minister on Wednesday told Britain's Independent newspaper that a unit of the 36th had, in fact, rebelled last week and opted not to continue fighting in Fallujah. More ominously, perhaps, the split reportedly occurred on ethnic lines, with most of the Arab soldiers quitting while the Kurds agreed to fight...