Clutching the toy as she sleeps, she sits up to find giant mice, a toy soldier battle and a snowy realm.

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And a soldier wounded in that battle who never recovered -- Sergeant First Class Kenneth Westbrook.

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Canadian citizen Omar Khadr, now 23, is accused of throwing a grenade that killed a US soldier during a gun battle in Afghanistan in 2002, when he was 15.

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Last year he published his memoirs titled, "Wiser in Battle: A Soldier's Story, " and he has continued to be a vocal critic of the war.

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Flexible electronics will allow circuits, displays and solar captors to be integrated anywhere in the battle suit, including in the soldier's mask, as a transparent display.

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On Sunday, their rescue effort triggered a gun battle that left two pirates and a Puntland soldier dead.

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The sketch is captioned only with the name "Jenkins" and it was believed to be of a different soldier, James Edmund Jenkins, who died in the battle.

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On Monday, a foreign soldier was killed in another southern Afghan province during a long battle that NATO says left at least another 50 Taliban fighters dead.

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