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  • The Hardest Job in the Army

    05/12/2003 10:23:08 AM PDT · by gubamyster · 4 replies · 775+ views
    The Weekly Standard ^ | 05/19/2003 | Matt Labash
    From the May 19, 2003 issue: Meet the men and women of Mortuary Affairs. by Matt Labash 05/19/2003, Volume 008, Issue 35 "And so we brought our dead man home. Flew his body back, faxed the obits to the local papers, called the priests, the sexton, the florists and stonecutter. We act out things we cannot put in words." --Thomas Lynch, "The Undertaking" Camp Wolf, Kuwait The backstretch of the Kuwait International Airport, like much of the rest of the country, is ugly. It is barren and arid, and the frequent sandstorms that whip through make the entire place look...
  • 'Chemical Ali' Possibly Survived

    04/24/2003 6:24:11 AM PDT · by Stand Watch Listen · 2 replies · 163+ views
    Philadelphia Inquirer | April 24, 2003 | Juan O. Tamayo
    The Hussein ally reportedly died in a raid in Basra. Hospital workers say he was in Baghdad days later.By Juan O. Tamayo, Knight Ridder News ServiceBAGHDAD - Hospital workers say they saw the infamous Saddam Hussein henchman known as "Chemical Ali" alive in Baghdad just before the city fell, contradicting British army reports that he had been killed in an air raid on a house in the southern city of Basra days earlier. The eyewitness reports that Ali Hassan al-Majid, who ordered poison-gas attacks on Kurdish villages in 1988 that killed 5,000 civilians, was at the Baghdad Nursing Hospital on...