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...already matured, the 3,500 plants he was tending would have yielded some $8 million worth of pot--an investment worth protecting. In the fall, when scores of Mexican workers arrive to harvest and process the pot, shoot-outs occur between law-enforcement agents and camouflage-clad growers toting AK-47s. Sometimes the pot pirates mistake innocent tourists for thieves or cops. Last year kayakers on the Salmon River in the Klamath National Forest were held at gunpoint by traffickers, as were a hiker in the Sequoia National Park and hunters in Mendocino National Forest. Two years...
...house, blaring instructions in Arabic for those inside to come out. Witnesses say that moments after al-Zaydan and his son emerged, hands raised, gunfire erupted from the upper floor of the house. About 20 U.S. soldiers stormed the building. Inside, they were met with a hail of AK-47 fire, which wounded four soldiers. The Americans called for backup...
They didn't find him. But the raid did turn up some serious firepower: 50 lbs. of C4 plastic explosives, a cache of rifles hidden in the garden and seven AK-47 magazines wrapped in plastic and sunk into a pile of rotting chicken parts. The soldiers also found a Republican Guard uniform and posters of Saddam, and from a field beyond the house they unearthed a telltale box of star-cluster signal flares. "They initiate ambushes with these," says Lieut. Colonel Steve Russell. The flares are further evidence that the Tikrit area, home base for Iraq's fallen leader...
...festooned with human bones. A femur hangs beside a pelvis and near a piece of a vertebra. The guards at the God Bless You Gate are members of a Small Boys Unit, government-employed child soldiers. They say they are generals, lieutenants and sergeants, but even with their AK-47s, they look more like schoolchildren. Their leader, General James Curry, says he is 21; he looks a decade younger. "I shoot the man," he says when asked about the bones dangling from the tollgate. "I cut him, and then...
...incredible sense of freedom when you head-bang," says Rhys. "And a headache," offers drummer Dafydd Ieuan. Their tank is long gone - it was sold to Eagles frontman Don Henley - but Phantom Power shows the Super Furries haven't let up. The band even spent a day firing AK-47s and Uzis in a field just to get the right effects. Says Rhys, "We had to phone the police so they didn't think the Taliban had landed in Monmouth." Don't say you weren't warned...