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...campaign to root out extremist militants and terrorists hiding among sympathizers in Waziristan's villages. Hussain showed up for the cease-fire ceremony unarmed, as agreed. But if the Pakistani officer expected his adversaries to reciprocate by laying down their weapons, he was disappointed. Accompanied by some 7,000 defiant tribesmen, some waving guns, rebel leaders, including former Taliban commander Nek Mohammed, appeared wearing their sidearms. Eyewitnesses say that all the general got from a slyly grinning Mohammed was a rusty sword. "We never war-gamed this," says a chagrined colonel in Islamabad of the military's failure to pacify...
...Apollo or struts naked through a tent--his elaborately muscled body a perfect subject for sculptor Praxiteles and already gold-plated by the sun--he gives a sense of the beast god luxuriating in his earned star quality. "I've known men like you my whole life," says the defiant virgin Briseis (Rose Byrne). "No, you haven't," Achilles replies, not as a boast but as a warning and a promise from a war stud...
...Thai military headquarters in Pattani to collect his father's corpse. Military officials described to Makasan how, together with 31 other men, six of them from Som, his father attacked a police checkpoint, killed two officers, then retreated inside the crumbling, red brick Krue Se mosque to launch a defiant stand against the might of the Thai military. When the automatic-weapon fire had ceased and the tear gas had cleared nine hours after the siege began, all 32 lay dead, their bodies lying in bloodied heaps on the stone floor of the mosque. It was not the only blood...
...unclear whether Summers was in the building when protesters yelled defiant chants at his windows, but according to University spokesperson Joe Wrinn, he was likely given advanced briefing on the event...
RELEASED. MORDECHAI VANUNU, 50, former nuclear technician who was imprisoned for treason for 18 years--including 12 in solitary confinement--for revealing Israeli nuclear secrets to a British newspaper; in Ashkelon, Israel. A convert to Christianity who has had severe restrictions placed on his travel, he was defiant on his release. "To all those calling me a traitor," he said, "I'm proud and happy to do what...