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...Jazeera carried video from a Baghdad market hit by missiles. As Iraqis pulled the mutilated dead from the rubble and the camera lingered on a boy with blood streaming from his head, waiters paused, holding their steaming plates of lamb stew. "This blood must be avenged," taxi driver Ata Ali said angrily. "We will see pictures of American children bleeding like that, God willing...
...first hamlet, and the Marines fan out, searching houses. A loudspeaker blasts a message in Arabic: Stay in your houses. We are here to help. "This is a place taken out of thousands of years ago when Jesus was walking the earth still," says Corporal Omar Monge, 20, driver for the battalion commander, Lieut. Colonel Bryan P. McCoy. A village elder approaches the battalion translator. Tell everyone not to be scared, he is told. But tell them if they shoot one bullet they will be very scared. We will shoot 2,000 bullets back...
...hamlet of Hajil, American helicopters overhead report white pickups, the preferred ride for the fedayeen, leaving town. A yellow-and-white taxi makes the mistake of pulling out in front of a tank, and the machine gunner opens up. Rounds explode across the car, and the driver is hit in the thigh and the back. He is treated and medevacked...
What an excellent report by Michael Duffy and Mark Thompson! General Franks is an outstanding leader of men, especially enlisted soldiers. I know from firsthand experience, having served close to him as General John Tilelli's driver during the Gulf War. Franks always kept our morale high with his great stories and humor. MIKE BALERO San Diego, Calif...
...work and travel in China." Yet just one day earlier, the WHO had issued its health advisory warning against travel to southern China. At ground zero itself, in Guangdong province, people seemed oblivious to the dangers because of the continuing local media blackout on the disease. Says a taxi driver in Guangzhou, the provincial capital: "Why wear a mask? This disease is a thing of the past." Li Liming, director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control, on Friday took the unprecedented?for a Chinese official?step of apologizing for China's poor coordination and information sharing...