BAGHDAD–Marwa Jasim has two children and a pair of metal rods in her legs. The latter are a result of injuries she received when a mortar shell crashed through the roof of her house, blowing out the windows and killing her husband.
Monthly Archives: February 2008
The Spud That Feeds the World
Pushing the potato's power to ease hunger and spur growth
In Baghdad, a Precarious Balance Between Sunni and Shiite Forces–With Americans in the Middle
BAGHDAD–In retrospect, Ahmed Khltahn agreed, leaping unannounced out of the taxi at the Ghazaliya checkpoint and loudly ratcheting back the loading mechanism of his AK-47 assault rifle was not a good idea. He was, after all, only going to pick up some takeout food. And the Iraqi Army guards working the checkpoint later conceded...
Putting a Human Face on the American Military Presence in Baghdad
BAGHDAD — Michael Duquette speaks with the slow and methodical cadence familiar to most old New England Yankees. He sports a salt and pepper mustache and uses silence as a soft cudgel to manage a conversation. While some of the more impetuous young infantry lieutenants will badger people into telling them something, even to...