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...convoy lumbered all the way through downtown. There was no gunfire, no real sign of hostility. But in the houses and behind the walls, Saddam's soldiers and militia were reaching for their AK-47s and rocket launchers and heading into the morning, into the bounty that had been laid before them. King finally noticed his mistake...
They scuttled everywhere, a hundred, two hundred, more. They flowed from the doors and windows and swarmed along the rooftops and into the street, and the AK-47s bucked in their hands as they fired on full-automatic at the slow-moving trucks. The Iraqis, most of them in loose-fitting, soiled civilian clothes, did not seem to aim at all, but to just shoot and scream and shoot. They sprayed bullets at the convoy and waited for the Americans to drive into their own death...
...paper published Monday, Institute research fellow Bibhu Prasad Routray warned that SIMI had been stepping up its operations in Bombay and the surrounding state of Maharashtra. He described several "SIMI strongholds" in the state, adding that the "seizure of 30 kilograms of RDX, 17 AK-47s and 50 hand grenades from Aurangabad and Malegaon [two Maharashtran towns] between May 9 and 12 and subsequent arrests of 11 LeT terrorists pointed to linkages between SIMI...
...Rampage, the documentary that has its Australian premiere at the Sydney Film Festival next week. In 103 fast-and-furious minutes, we meet Lovett's neighborhood of Brown Sub. It's Miami Vice without the pastel suits and palm trees, a no-go zone where AK-47s are the weapons of choice and violent crime runs rife. Gittoes' energetic camera records a life for the Lovett family no less harrowing than the abuses at Abu Ghraib. "It's very rare that people come to see us," says brother Marcus, "unless it's something tragic...
...grenade launcher, and it's not until another Marine arrives to relieve him that he finally turns for the slit doorway. "Let me get outta here," he says. "I'm hit pretty bad." But the battle goes on: below the Marines' outpost, al-Qaeda fighters toting AK-47s dart in and out of view. As blood from Sardinas and Wilson pools at his feet, Sergeant William Morrow grips the grenade launcher. A fellow Marine spots an insurgent in the open. "Waste his ass," Tasayco urges as they open fire on the enemy below...