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...April 20, he and seven other Apollo contractors headed out in a three-car convoy to collect an ERSM employee from the airport. In the lead, driving an unarmored BMW sedan, was James Yeager, an American weapons instructor. His passengers were two former British soldiers, Stef Surette and Mark (who did not want his surname used). The middle vehicle was the company's heavily armored Mercedes, used for transporting VIPs. It held two former British soldiers: Simon Merry at the wheel, and Ian Harris riding shotgun. Bringing up the rear of the convoy was Ahmelman, driving a second BMW; with...
...wounded Surette went on firing out of the side window. "You could see small dots leaving your rifle and rounds pinging off the back of the (attackers') vehicle, and everyone is yelling, 'It's armored, it's armored,'" says Mark, who was shooting across the trunk of the BMW. Surette continued firing until he passed out from loss of blood, while Yeager, unable to see the attackers, blasted away pointlessly at a barricade before running to take cover in a ditch on the opposite side of the road. In the rear car, Ahmelman was slumped against the window. Hunt, bleeding...
...feud between Yushchenko and Tymoshenko will play out. The post of Prime Minister is to get major new powers on Jan. 1, rendering the President much weaker. Yushchenko's own popularity has been slumping anyway in the wake of revelations that his son has been driving a $140,000 BMW imported in violation of customs laws, and that his family has trademarked the symbols of the orange revolution. These include the word Yushchenko and the slogan i believe, I know, we can, both against an orange background, as well as the word tak! (yes) written over a lucky horseshoe...
...moral probity. Lately, however, a succession of corruption scandals has dented the country's corporate self-image. In June and July, fraud and bribery charges were leveled against top executives at carmaker Volkswagen and at Infineon, Europe's second largest computer-chip maker. Now another iconic national brand, BMW, is making unsavory headlines. Last week, one of the firm's sales managers was arrested on allegations of taking up to $100,000 in bribes from an east German supplier for funneling orders its way. So far, the executive hasn't commented. Even the media are tainted. In July, public television...
...study of his white clapboard home in Bernardsville, N.J. There he toils all day Mondays, usually wearing a flannel shirt, baggy jeans and deck shoes. During the rest of the week he dons a business suit and drives 40 minutes to the airport in his metallic-gray BMW...