Word: blindfolded
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...only ones at stake. Just as our troops fight for all of us, they also die for all of us. Families, pundits and pols can disagree on what the flag that shrouds those coffins stands for. But that flag is not, and should never be, a blindfold...
...They beat him in the car as they barreled off. When they arrived he was blindfolded and beaten some more, his pockets emptied, and a picture of his young daughter rifled from his wallet. "Who is this?" a captor quizzed. "This is my daughter," he says he replied. "Can I ask you a favor? Can I kiss that picture before you kill me?" The price for his release, he was warned, was $20,000 by morning-or he would never see his daughter again. To drive home the point they lifted his blindfold just enough to let him see bare...
...Twelve hours into his ordeal the attack on the hideout began. The man is currently hard of hearing, thanks to a gunman he could never see because of the blindfold who opened fire next to his head with a PKC machine gun. Once the firing close to him stopped he could tell the special forces had breached the perimeter. "I'm the guy kidnapped, I'm the guy kidnapped," he hollered. He was urged to come out, and a soldier put his hand on his shoulder. "We've come to rescue you," he was told...
Britain's biggest ever cash robbery, some $93 million stolen from a depot, prompted a huge manhunt last week. Local police first said the theft had been "executed with military precision." Really? Now it looks more like a comedy of errors. Future tips: DON'T FORGET THE BLINDFOLDS: Gang members posed as bogus cops to kidnap Securitas manager Colin Dixon and his family. But without a blindfold, Dixon was able to provide a composite image of the man who abducted him, whose beard (believed to be fake) was a different color from his hair. DON'T LEAVE CASH LYING AROUND...
...person bombmaking cell. Fox Company hits two "dry" houses before they find Saleh, a burly, bearded man in a grimy dishdasha. "I am a teacher! I am a teacher!" he protests as the Marines march him out into the courtyard, bind his hands with plastic ties and blindfold him. The Marines order his four young sons to kneel and face the wall as punishment for cracking wise when the troops entered the house. As Saleh is bundled into a waiting truck and taken to a detention facility, Lance Corporal John Hammar, 20, spots the man's daughter in tears...