Word: deserter
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...former officer in the Fedayeen Saddam militia who is well schooled in guerrilla tactics. A tall, sinewy figure with a weathered face, Abu Ali makes no secret of his ambition to attack Americans: "I want to kill all Bush's soldiers until they leave Iraq or it becomes their desert graveyard...
...called silent watch," says an Army official at the Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command in Warren, Mich., who requested anonymity. Fuel cells last longer than the batteries that currently support such operations. The devices can also provide soldiers with water, a much needed resource, especially for those stationed in desert conditions. The water vapor from the fuel cells can be recycled for human consumption...
...apparently unaware that invoking centuries of bloody Christian holy war against Muslims in the Middle East might undercut his insistence that his war was indeed not against Islam. (Europeans should be used to cringing by now; the last time we bombed Iraq it was called “Operation Desert Fox” with no apparent recollection that this was the nickname of the Nazi general Erwin Rommel, who overran Arab North Africa.) But when language is being crafted for American consumption, Bush has become the mouthpiece for an ingenious conservative language engineering operation, dating back at least...
...Wenders, the process of capturing these images, while complimenting his work as a director, is also unique and inextricably tied to the experience of living. As Wenders wrote in his book about his experience in Australia, “It takes a few nights of sleeping on desert ground and staring into the starry sky until you can scarcely keep your eyes open to value the experience of photographing again...
...know, I think I might take Rohit Chopra with me to a desert island, because even though he might try to micromanage the island, he would be at least telling it to do the right things...