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...been waiting for Rehman across the border in Pakistan should he have succeeded and survived his bid to kill Karzai. He did neither. Instead, Rehman was gunned down after opening fire on the president's car on September 5, missing his target but wounding a provincial governor and a bodyguard...
...grazed Sherzai's neck, and another struck a U.S. soldier. A nearby youth, 19, by some accounts the one who had moved forward to greet Karzai, shoved Rahman to the ground. The U.S. commandos then bounded out of their vehicle and opened fire. Rahman, the youth and an Afghan bodyguard died in the fusillade. Back in Kabul that night, Karzai seemed unfazed by his brush with death but aware that it probably will not be his last. "I'm fine," he said. "I expect things like this to happen...
...years Saddam's elder son, the wild, thuggish Uday, was considered the heir apparent. But Uday's penchant for excess was too much even for Saddam after the son, in a fit of pique, murdered a beloved bodyguard of Saddam's in 1988; Uday was jailed for several months. He has largely recovered from a 1996 assassination attempt that has left him barely able to walk. Though he is still a feared man, he has clearly been eclipsed by Qusay, 36. Qusay, say observers in Baghdad and Washington, is a force to be reckoned with. Sober, hardworking and deferential...
...wife had been shot. Blake is due to be arraigned this week. The police say he will be charged with one count of murder with special circumstances (lying in wait) and two counts of solicitation of murder. The aggravated-murder charge can carry the death penalty. Blake's bodyguard, Earle Caldwell, was also arrested, and police say he will be charged with one count of conspiracy to commit murder. A creepy bit of foreshadowing: in the pilot episode of Baretta, the cop's TV wife is killed outside a restaurant...
Lastly, the Americans have called on Arafat to do more, which the writer suggests is impossible One thing that he could easily do, something that doesn’t require a personal jet or a bodyguard or even a working cellphone, he has refused to do: condemn suicide bombings, in Arabic. Until he does so, how can Israel relate to him, and the people who maintain him as their leader, as anything less than an enemy? It is by his own choice, with the rejection of the Barak plan and every day since, that Palestinians do not have a state...