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...what happened and is going to talk to internal affairs, thus destroying a legendary career. So Will has a motive to kill him. And--this is the best part--his judgment is clouded by sleep deprivation. It is summertime in this land of the midnight sun, and the perpetual daylight induces in him the malady of the title...
...first pair had come under attack. As the troops clambered out of the wrecked MH-47, they were ambushed. Hagenbeck ordered AC-130 gunships to the battle to provide close air support, but the al-Qaeda barrage was so intense that U.S. troops couldn't be lifted out during daylight. Fighting continued through the day, as the first team searching for Roberts fought its way to the downed Chinook. It was not until midnight that the last U.S. soldier was evacuated. The choppers also carried 11 wounded and the bodies of seven Americans--Roberts and six of his would...
...first pair had come under attack. As the troops clambered out of the wrecked MH-47, they were ambushed. Hagenbeck ordered AC-130 gunships to the battle to provide close air support, but the al-Qaeda barrage was so intense that U.S. troops couldn't be lifted out during daylight. Fighting continued through the day, as the first team searching for Roberts fought its way to the downed Chinook. It was not until midnight that the last U.S. soldier was evacuated. The choppers also carried 11 wounded and the bodies of seven Americans?Roberts and six of his would...
...grown quite stale. Nobody who matters believes any of them. Bush’s political opponents certainly don’t. I recall a certain House Minority Leader, in the Democratic response to the State of the Union, saying of President Bush, “there is no daylight between us on this war on terrorism.” The American public certainly doesn’t. In an ABC poll released this week, Bush came out at number three (behind Lincoln and Kennedy) when Americans were asked to name the country’s greatest president...
...resident bomb-disposal expert decided to wait until dawn before venturing out of the fortified embassy to investigate. That's what makes him an expert. The explosion was only a decoy. The real killer was a land mine that was invisible in the dark but was spotted in the daylight half buried. Says Corporal Matthew Roberson of the Marine antiterrorist unit at the embassy: "It looked like somebody did it so we'd come running out and step on the mine...