Word: dahran
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...rampaging soldiers would kill again before withdrawing. Not far away, a 14-year-old boy named Dasran Dahran was dragged into a field, lashed to a scarecrow and shot through the head. Two other men disappeared at this time and are presumed dead by the villagers. And still the terror wasn't over. The villagers said the soldiers went house to house, pounding on doors with their rifle butts, pistol-whipping men of all ages. One was Zul Karnaini, a slender 28-year-old with a bandaged head. "One soldier shouted that I was a dog, a pig, a communist...
...atmosphere of disbelief. Everybody expected the Iraqis would pull out rather than be bombed, but there we were at U.S. headquarters in Dahran and the air raid sirens were going off as the allied air strikes against Iraqi positions began. Everybody was getting into the elevators and going down into the shelters; I got into one going up onto the roof to be able to watch. I'd been in Philadelphia before that covering the crack wars, and this felt safe by comparison...
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