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...Qaeda fighters had been buying the houses with mud walls, like miniature medieval fortresses. "Those who didn't want to sell," Wardak told TIME, "were asked to leave." Some al-Qaeda fighters hunkered down; high above the valley floor, others headed for the caves that Mansoor's father had dug 20 years...
Person of the Week SIX FEET UNDER John Rusnak was just another suburban dad?or so his Baltimore, Maryland neighbors and bosses thought. However, this $85,000-a-year currency trader surreptitiously dug his company, Allied Irish Banks, a $750 million financial hole the firm may never get to the bottom...
According to Professor of History Andrew D. Gordon, Deptula dug up Masako’s old pay records and won herself a brief appearance on Japanese television news shows...
...universities. Soon after the Japanese left, a young Korean National Museum official named Hwang Su Young went to Kaesong and surveyed the damage. "I saw tombs that were empty and destroyed," Hwang, now 83, says angrily. "People came up to me and said, 'They threatened me with guns and dug up my ancestors' tomb...
...days of horror in 1222, when Genghis Khan's armies razed the city and massacred all its inhabitants as punishment for resistance. You can still find human bones here, says Nasir, my guide. The Taliban were great art looters as well as destroyers, it seems: they dug here for treasure and, in the process, brought human remains to the surface. To illustrate this, Nasir pokes around in an earthen bank with a stick, discarding bits of animal bones, and finally pulls out a human vertebra. The soldiers offer a more pleasant souvenir: fragments of pottery, smashed by Genghis Khan...