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...attacks. "I said, 'Never, never, never do car bombs,'" he recalls. Rueful pause. "I never said, 'Don't do a camel bomb.'" That was a mistake. It was with horror that he later heard about the incendiary dromedary that, vaporized by remote control while tethered at a Soviet officers' canteen, killed or maimed more than a dozen people. There is an unpredictability quotient built into the business of "human intelligence," Bearden muses. "Today's freedom fighter," he says, "is tomorrow's creep...
...handgun at them with both hands [and said] 'If you want problems, I'll give it to you. Stay off the road.'" The resulting search of Koernke's van turned up a gas mask, a (legal) 12-gauge shotgun with 10 shells, K rations, two military shovels and a canteen. He convinced a judge that he had been acting in self-defense...
...spent more than half his life in the Marines. "I sat him down," Castro recalled in a thick Bronx accent, "and he said 'Thank you, thank you, thank you' -- he just kept on saying that." O'Grady was shivering, dehydrated and soaking wet. After he drank almost an entire canteen of water, Castro asked him if he wanted something to eat. He nodded, and an MRE -- a meal, ready-to-eat-was passed forward. O'Grady took three or four bites of the chicken stew and then said he couldn't eat any more. His uncontrollable shivering started up again...
...taken to prevent such a raid, embarrassing revelations emerged. Not only did police fail to beef up surveillance after a warning that a security-company robbery was being planned, but when the theft took place, most of the Brink's-Allied security staff were caught off guard in the canteen. The fiasco nearly turned tragic a week later, when journalist Veronica Guerin, who had written a profile of the chief suspect, was wounded at her home by a gunman; police believe the attack was linked to her report. Says actress Catherine Punch, 27: ``People tend to glamourize criminals...
...says Michael Gunnells, the assistant warden in charge of security. A year ago, for instance, at Camp J -- home to Angola's incorrigibles -- staff morale had bottomed out in a storm of hurled food, spit and excrement. Whitley responded with a strict set of disincentives. Curse a guard, forfeit canteen privileges. Throw a meal tray, lose your radio. "The burden is on prisoners," says Captain Davy Kelone. "It drives them crazy." That it does. Camp J inmate Virgil Smith likens his living conditions to a "concentration camp" and his punishment meals to "dog food...