Boy soldier defends his book
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Ishmael Beah, author of a best-selling memoir about his time as a boy soldier in Sierra Leone, disputes newspaper reports that he had exaggerated his war service, telling The Associated Press on Wednesday that he will "stand by" what he wrote.
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From Salman Rushdie to Monty Python, free speech even if offensive is worth protecting, Britain's interior minister said on Wednesday, defending a knighthood for Rushdie which has drawn protests from Muslims.
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ISTANBUL -- In a new case pitting free speech against Turkish nationalists, a young novelist is due in court here this week to defend herself against charges that she insulted ``Turkishness" because a character in her newest book, ``The Bastard of Istanbul," refers to the deaths of Armenians in 1915 as genocide.
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One of the soldiers has proudly served in the military for 10 years. Another passed up a chance to remain safely at home, instead re-enlisting in the Army Reserve and heading to Iraq so "the young kids in that unit" would have someone experienced alongside them.
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Backs to the wall! Members of Weston Home Guard in an invasion exercise. TWO logbooks, much worn and grubby by frequent handling and their pencilled entries so faded in places as to be undecipherable, have been ...
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FORWARD OPERATING BASE THUNDER, Afghanistan -- The story of a 6-year-old Afghan boy who says he thwarted an effort by Taliban militants to trick him into being a suicide bomber provoked tears and anger at a meeting of tribal leaders.
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A new book argues that in playing video games, boys are actually training for the new world of work, not avoiding it.
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Letâs not lose the plot. In defense of âbadâ words in childrenâs books.
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The title of Robert Redford's  "Lions for Lambs" comes from a comment made by a German officer  in World War I about the bravery of British soldiers compared  to the criminal stupidity of their commanders.
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Fight for our troops and our country by fighting against President Bush's pro-torture bill. My lifelong friend, who now serves in Iraq, dreads what new precedent Bush's ineffectual and dangerous torture ideology will have for the safety of himself and those serving with him.
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A respected Pakistani author accuses the government of blocking the launch her book about the military.
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The U.S. military asserted that an American soldier was justified in erasing journalists' footage of the aftermath of a suicide bombing and shooting in Afghanistan last week, saying publication could have compromised a military investigation and led to false public conclusions.
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FORT HOOD, Texas - A lawyer for a soldier accused in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal claims that public positions taken by President Bush and military leaders have made it impossible for his client to get a fair trial by a military jury.
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The heated debate over the authenticity of documents aired by CBS News purporting to show an effort to &quot;sugar coat&quot; President Bush&#39;s military record grew louder yesterday, when the Los Angeles Times reported that a retired major general who was consulted
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It was the marching that got him. Soldiers thump-thump-thumped in unison across the pavement. To the child, then no more than eight years old, solidity flowed from their boots. They infected him with an awe that, even after the span of a decade and the encroachment of a war, has not darkened.
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A U.S. soldier pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of killing Iraqis and trying to cover it up by planting weapons on their bodies.
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(CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.) - The publisher of a Tennessee newspaper says the paper should have told its readers that one of its own reporters helped frame a soldier&#39;s complaint to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.