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...squat Gate of Humility, a large door reduced to a tiny entryway during the time of the Turkish Empire to prevent looters from driving carts inside the church to carry off their booty. Some of the men waved and cheered a victory; others knelt to pray. A man with bullet wounds came out on a stretcher. All passed through metal detectors. U.S. embassy officials later found more than 90 rifles and other guns left behind, and Israeli troops said they found 40 explosive devices. From the rooftops around the adjoining Manger Square, relatives called out "God is most great...
...shots were aimed at them, launched flares to illuminate the area. The flares, as they came down, set fire to some rooms in the Franciscan area of the complex. An officer of the National Security Force, Khaled Siyam, 25, rushed to put out the fire; a sniper's bullet killed him instantly. Disgusted by the carelessness of his comrades who fired into the air, an intelligence officer bitterly told a friend, "I wish the Israelis would come in here and slaughter every...
...snapped. One of them walked into the camp commander's office with a laundry basket, pulled out a crowbar and drove it through the commander's forehead. The revolt quickly turned into a massacre, with 17 guards gunned down or drowned trying to flee the island. Yang took a bullet through the neck but survived...
...same day she found Yusuf Khan, father of four, beaten unconscious with steel pipes. She carried him to an ambulance, but he died hours later. On the same street Abdul Munaf, 26, is nursing his bandaged hand. The very day Hamid and Khan were attacked, a policeman's bullet passed through Munaf's knuckles and grazed his chin as he threw rocks at the security forces that were strafing his first-floor balcony. "God, please do justice to them," hisses Qureishi as she navigates the rubble and the firebombed homes left by two months of rioting. "Please God, give them...
...change, then we execute them. Sometimes, we use torture?it depends on the interests of the people." The village authorities make a report, which is passed up to the district party leadership to rule on the punishment and who should administer it, he says. "We use the kukri, the bullet, or beat them to death with a wooden stick. It's the party leaders who decide...