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...mortar fire. (Both ambassadors were slightly hurt.) Two weeks ago, in one of its most audacious attacks so far, the Tigers used two small planes (the government says it was just one), which the group had smuggled onto the island piece by piece over the past few years, to bomb an airfield adjacent to the country's international airport outside Colombo. The attack killed three and wounded 16, but officials say government planes weren't damaged. The air attack was so unexpected that the improvised bombers were able to make it back to rebel territory unharmed. The Tigers sent journalists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Endless War | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

...billion oil development project, and since the start of the genocide, it has announced that it is constructing a $1 billion oil refining facility in Port Sudan, set to be completed by 2009. Worst of all, Petronas’ fuel is used for government military aircraft, which then bomb villages in Darfur...

Author: By Peter N. Ganong | Title: Divest Selectively From Sudan | 4/2/2007 | See Source »

...degrees, light breeze. The streets were empty because it was the first day of the weekend here, when many Iraqis visit mosques to hear sermons. The evening news reports were refreshingly short. No one was killed in Ur city in the northern section of the capital when a homemade bomb exploded as worshipers were leaving Friday prayers. Two were injured in al-Dora, a neighborhood on a bend in the Tigris, when a taxicab exploded. The residents of al-Amel hid in their houses during a firefight between an armed gang and the Iraqi army as U.S. Apache attack helicopters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Too Bad a Day in Baghdad | 3/30/2007 | See Source »

...with U.S. soldiers marking numbers on the necks of men and hands of women to keep track of residents during lockdown. Some 16 insurgents lay dead, but the bloodshed would continue through Sunday. The Apaches would kill 12 more suspected insurgents after some of them were seen triggering roadside bombs against a U.S. convoy. As dusk settled, another bomb exploded next to a parked humvee, killing four U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: The Small-Town War | 3/29/2007 | See Source »

...tunnel was shielded with white steel plates and girders, which led into a small steel-walled chamber. The room, which was bare apart from two empty five-gallon water containers, must have been at least 100 feet underground, and could probably have withstood a direct hit by a heavy bomb. A power cable along the walls linked several bare bulbs, while a black plastic bag hanging from a hook contained the remnants of what last summer could have been fresh oranges or apples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Hizballah's Hidden Bunkers | 3/29/2007 | See Source »

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