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Cortez returned and said, "If we are going to do this, let's go before I change my mind." He and Barker started changing their clothes, putting on their black, silk-weight Polartec tops and bottoms and balaclava thermal face masks to obscure their faces. They wanted to look like insurgents, they said, and ordered Spielman and Green to do the same. Green objected, saying he wasn't changing. At least take your patches off, Cortez said, which Green did. Spielman only wore his uniform bottoms and a T-shirt while Green kept his whole uniform on. Cortez insisted they...
...Year's arrival sounds like a gag even in strike-happy France. That's because Fonacon's protest is decidedly tongue in cheek - though don't expect Marie-Gabriel to admit it. In videos on the group's website, fonacon.net, he dons the signature black balaclava of guerrilla commandos as he calls sympathizers into action...
...videotape discovered by police in a 2005 raid on a JI safe house in central Java, a balaclava-clad man believed to be Noordin is heard ranting: "America, Australia, England and Italy are all our enemies. We especially remind Australia that you, [then Foreign Minister Alexander] Downer and [then Prime Minister John] Howard, are killing Australia, leading it into darkness and misfortune and mujahidin terror." In May 2004, despite being the subject of one of Indonesia's largest manhunts, Noordin managed to marry his second wife, Munfiatun Al-Fitri, who, according to the ICG report, had wanted to marry...
...Mosque - after the seminary in Islamabad where dozens of radical young students died last month in a military raid ordered by President Pervez Musharraf. "We took over the mosque [to protest] against Islamabad's action against the religious seminaries," declared Usman, a young man wearing a balaclava, when I visited last week. I could feel the anger in his brown eyes...
...stood waiting for what felt like hours in a large field between wooden buildings with bright murals depicting socialist utopias in Mexican villages. My hands shook as a man approached wearing a black balaclava that disguised his identity despite his brightly-colored traditional peasant garb. He led me into a barn that was only lit by the sun filtering between the cracks in the rough boards of the walls. My eyes slowly adjusted to the darkness to reveal two other men and a woman seated on a bench in the corner who were similarly dressed and disguised...