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Even the governor of Gori was barred from returning to his town today. Waiting at a police checkpoint in his black Toyota Land Cruiser some 48 km (30 miles) from Gori, he said the Georgian government ordered him to leave yesterday for his own security after looters overran the town, ransacking his home and office. He said that, according to his sources, local Ossetians are urging Russian troops to stay. "They (Ossetians) don't want to be exposed (to retribution)," said the governor, Vladimir Vardzelashvili...
...shooting me for looking like an American.'' (He's actually Canadian.) Guards are also important: several gunmen protecting Andrew fired back when his truck was ambushed in the Bakhara market earlier this year, enabling him to make a quick getaway. Andrew rides around Mogadishu in an old Toyota Land Cruiser with goatskin seat covers, Armed Forces Radio booming from the speakers, but that doesn't provide much relaxation. ''It took me months to figure out whether Somalis traditionally drive on the right or the left,'' he says. (It's the right.) ''With no traffic cops, anything goes.'' Swimming...
...Iranians conduct such tests several times a year. While such testing is provocative, Iran has defensive motives for it as well: it was 20 years ago this month that the U.S. Navy cruiser Vincennes killed 290 people aboard an Iranian airliner as it flew across the Persian Gulf after the ship erroneously identified the airliner as an Iranian F-14 intent on attacking the vessel...
...tried to stop him from leaving, Wu struck his arm. Wu was then informed that he was being placed under arrest. As he was being escorted to the police vehicle, he kicked an officer, causing a laceration in his leg. Wu then kicked through a window of the police cruiser. At the police station, he kicked a “Miranda Warning” poster off the wall. HUPD confiscated a fake Michigan driver’s license. During his last hearing at the Cambridge District Court, Wu was denied pre-trial probation. Wu’s friends said that...
...tale of riddles and clever science, but at the heart of the story of HMAS Sydney are simple names like Robert, Keith and David. When the wreck of the Australian cruiser was found last week, 66 years after she was last seen drifting ablaze in the darkness, it was the 645 men who vanished with her who came to mind...