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...mingled with the crowd. One wore an expensive gray suit and camel's hair topcoat. Two were in blue jeans and jackets, and had pulled scarves partly over their faces. The fourth sported a green beret. They were not traveling light: they carried 13 hand grenades and four AK-47 automatic rifles...
...about the time that the shooting stopped at Leonardo da Vinci, three men in dirty pants and combat jackets ran up the steps to the second-floor departure area at Vienna's Schwechat Airport. They opened fire with AK-47s. Passengers waiting to check in for E1 A1 Flight 364 to Tel Aviv threw themselves on the floor or leaped over ticket counters in panic. Police and E1 A1 security guards returned the fire, but the terrorists managed to get within 30 ft. of the counter. They rolled three hand grenades across the floor like bowling balls toward their victims...
Visitors who travel to Cambine are usually accompanied by squads of Mozambican soldiers toting AK-47 assault rifles. The settlement is protected by armed members of the local "home guard" militia. New arrivals build themselves grass-hut homes. Recently, a refugee named Joanna Cuevelo sat in front of a new hut, feeding her four children, whom she had just brought on foot to Cambine from a village 65 miles to the north. Her ten-year-old son, who was bitten by a cobra on the way, lay on a blanket, his face pinched and gray. "His mother won't part...
...army patrol that found the wreckage in the rain-soaked jungle also discovered a propaganda windfall. Not only was the craft loaded with black-market arms--70 Soviet-made AK-47 rifles, 100,000 rounds of ammunition, rocket grenades, boots and other supplies--but two of the three dead crew members found inside were Americans. The pair were later identified as William J. Cooper, 61, of Reno, and Wallace Elaine Sawyer Jr., 41, of Magnolia, Ark. A day later searchers cornered Hasenfus hiding in an abandoned shack. Though he was armed with a pistol and a knife, he offered...
...being slightly antiestablishment, the enfant terrible of broadcasting." In a 4 1/2-min. p.r. video being prepared for potential distributors and advertisers, al-Jazeera execs refrain from using bin Laden's image but otherwise do little to downplay militancy. To a techno beat, the video shows a gunman with an AK-47 rifle, street mayhem in Jerusalem and other disturbing images from the Arabic channel's news footage...