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...their doors. The attack, locals later said, was hardly a surprise: insurgents reportedly set up ambush points around the city, waiting to assault any foreigners who might venture in. As the Blackwater vehicles made their way down the divided road, according to reports, at least three men cut the convoy off and opened fire with assault rifles. An eyewitness says the assailants threw two grenades at the SUVs. Three of the Blackwater employees apparently died instantly; another was badly wounded, only to be beaten to death with bricks by a mob that gathered at the scene. As horrific...
...McGirk: It could have a huge impact if this resistance spreads to other tribes. And we're seeing the first inkling that this may be happening already. An army convoy rushing reinforcements to the battle in south Waziristan was attacked yesterday, in a different tribal area. And in north Waziristan, there was a raid on an army outpost today, in which a major was killed. President Musharraf is taking a huge risk here. These tribes are well-armed and they could make common cause with the Taliban and other anti-coalition elements in Afghanistan. Also, many of the soldiers...
...first came at 12:31 of the first period, when Mudryk took a pass from Joe Bauer and led his linemates on a 3-on-2 convoy before beating Dov Grumet-Morris low to his glove side. Mudryk struck again midway through the second, pouncing on a wayward rebound of Paul Crosty’s point shot...
...beer turned into three or four, the dark realities of their lives began to surface. During a cigarette break outside the palace, Aaron—a tan, spiky-haired 25-year-old who liked to talk like Mr. T—told me about the time when his convoy got stopped on the outskirts of Kirkuk. Stopped at a checkpoint, a young boy approached Aaron’s truck with an AK-47 in his hands. The child pointed the assault rifle at Aaron and Aaron shot the child in the head. He bluntly stated that morality...
...from Kale Prison in Sagaing, northwest Burma. A Defense Minister in the mid-1970s before falling out with former dictator Ne Win, Tin Oo helped form the NLD in 1988. He was detained along with Suu Kyi and hundreds of other pro-democracy supporters after their convoy was attacked by government-backed thugs last May. Like Suu Kyi, he is now under house arrest in Rangoon...