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...courts. So when Sheik Mohammed al-Ebadi got a call from a British officer to help defuse a riot in Majar al-Kabir, northwest of Basra, he drove there, fast. As he approached the village, he saw British paratroopers engaged in a fierce fire fight with locals armed with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades. The locals, enraged by reports of heavy-handed searches carried out by British troops, had attacked a patrol. When the fighting was done, four Iraqis had been killed and 17 wounded, including a 12-year-old boy. The British had said they needed al-Ebadi...
While much of Iraq is subdued, resistance to U.S. forces there remains fierce north and west of Baghdad in a triangle of territory dominated by conservative tribes adhering to Islam's Sunni branch, to which Saddam belongs. Though sporadic gunfights are to be expected in a country where AK-47s are standard home furnishings, the combatants in recent weeks have used more sophisticated weapons such as RPGs and land mines. An RPG was used to kill a U.S. soldier south of Baghdad last week a day after two Iraqis died in the capital when an American soldier fired...
...Tikriti did not tell her why he wanted the house, but Yunis suspected it might be used as a storage site or meeting place. When she returned to her home two days after the strike it was empty, but official papers were strewn everywhere. She found a box of AK-47 ammunition and six touch-tone phones with labels reading HEALTH MINISTRY and REPUBLICAN GUARD. TIME visited Yunis' home, which sits across from a church in the graceful neighborhood of al-Mansur. On close examination, the handwriting on the military maps Yunis says she discovered in the house match those...
...brawny pirate. He has two silver rings in one ear and dark eyebrows arched like two hissing cats. He picks up his cell phone and jokingly plays the part of a low-life genie: "A Russian hooker who looks like Pamela Anderson? Ecstasy? A bottle of Black Label? An AK-47, or a 40-carat diamond? It's all here?just a phone call away." In his sleek, black outfits and his silver bracelets, Amin is a familiar figure at Karachi's private parties and rave clubs, which never advertise or display signs and are set back from the street...
IVORY COAST International peacekeepers arrived in the western town of Zouan-Hounien to enforce a cease-fire agreed by government and rebel forces at the beginning of May. The French and West African troops were greeted by children - some wearing women's wigs - firing AK-47s into the air. The western region has seen brutal fighting since an armed rebellion split the country in two eight months ago. Ivorian rebels, many of them children, have engaged in recent weeks in pitched battles with mercenaries from neighboring Liberia. - By Kate Davenport/Zouan-Hounien Caught on Camera BRITAIN An 18-year-old British soldier...