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...been killed in an Israeli missile strike yesterday on their way south to fetch Hussein's wife and six children and bring them to safety. According to Hussein's cousin, Majid Hammadi, the two men were about a mile from their house when an Israeli missile struck their car, killing both. When a rescue truck attempted to retrieve the bodies, Hammadi said, the Israelis struck again. Today, they say, after a day in the street, the bodies are still unclaimed because people are too scared to approach the destroyed cars. Neighbors who witnessed the attack had called Hammadi with...
...Critics of the mainstream media's war coverage might hope that the soldier's unmediated view would be a more positive one. Vice President Cheney complained last March that the public's dwindling support for the war was due to the "perception that what's newsworthy is the car bomb in Baghdad," rather than what success has been had "in terms of making progress towards rebuilding Iraq." Talk show host Laura Ingraham encouraged those covering Iraq to "talk to those soldiers on the ground" in order to get a sense of all the good things happening there that should...
...Chechen terrorist who masterminded numerous large-scale attacks on Russian civilians, including a siege of a school in the town of Beslan that killed 331 people, most of them children, and a 2002 attack on a theater in Moscow leaving 171 people dead; when a bomb in his car exploded in the republic of Ingushetia, bordering Chechnya. While Basayev's supporters said the explosion was accidental, Russian forces said they killed Basayev as part of a long-planned sting operation...
This war has turned Beirut inside out. The city's usually snarled traffic is almost gone and the blaring noise of car horns is absent. Conversely, parks that are rarely used are now full of people - those who have fled the bombings in the south, east, north, and, well, pretty much everywhere in Lebanon...
...finally decided to leave Bir al-Abed because of the pleading of his children. "My wife told me that my eldest son is very worried and my other son has stopped eating because he's scared. There's no space at my in-laws, so I slept in the car." His troubles haven't discouraged him from supporting Hizballah, however, and he even welcomed a ground invasion by Israel. "On the ground, they are weaker and we are stronger," he said. "We cannot retaliate against their military jets," he added. "It's not honorable to destroy a people...