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...Iraqi terrorist network being set up. "People are moving; gear is under way," says one source. The attacks would not be confined to the Middle East; they would hit targets in Europe, Japan and the U.S. Nor would the terrorists confine themselves to the classic means of bomb and bullet; they too might resort to biological warfare. Some analysts conjure up nightmare visions of a light plane scattering anthrax powder around the Washington area...
Gaffney sent a rocket just to the left of the cage. Kristen Fowler fired a bullet, but just missed...
With each passing day, the grim tally mounted. In Brooklyn an 11-year-old girl was wounded in her family's home by a stray bullet from the street outside. Two days later an 18-year-old Bronx man was stabbed to death by a panhandler who had demanded a dollar. Then a Queens man was shot and seriously wounded as he chased gunmen who had robbed a neighborhood grocery store. A typical week in New York City...
...long hallway, a showcase of war mementos greets passers-by. Dominating the scene is a life-size photograph of Bush, the kind that tourists in Washington pay $5 to pose with. But Bush's version, a Christmas gift from the U.S. Army, is framed and has a dozen-odd bullet holes in its head. It was retrieved from the private pistol range of Manuel Noriega. Nearby are the original police mug shots of Noriega, face front and silhouette. Does the President enshrine these images as prehistoric men wore totems from which to derive strength? Or is this the beginning...
...team assigned to murder Iraq's military ruler, Abdul Karim Kassem. Saddam and his confederates sprayed Kassem's station wagon with machine-gun fire as it sped through downtown Baghdad, but they missed their target. Although bodyguards killed several of the assailants, Saddam escaped with a bullet in his left leg. In the glorified words of his own hagiography -- the truth is less dramatic -- he carved out the bullet himself with a razor dipped in iodine, then disguised himself as a Bedouin tribesman, swam across the Tigris River, stole a donkey and fled across the desert to Syria...