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...previously sent help in the form of equipment and training for Yemeni forces to take on extremists in the tribal areas, but with mixed results. Earlier this year, in raid on a village where al-Harthi and others were seeking shelter, government troops were repelled in a fierce firefight that killed 18 Yemeni soldiers and allowed the al-Qaeda men to escape. This time, when U.S. intelligence got al-Hathi in their sights, they chose to do the job by remote...
KILLED. RODDY SCOTT, 31, intrepid British freelance journalist and cameraman who chose a hazardous career documenting neglected conflicts in such places as Sierra Leone, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan and Ethiopia; by a bullet in the eyepiece of his camera while filming a firefight between Chechen rebels and Russian troops; in Ingushetia. Russian forces discovered Scott's body among dozens of dead Chechen rebels...
...just over the mountains from Chechnya that is a safe haven for drug dealers, kidnappers, Chechen guerrillas and, if U.S. officials are right, a small number of al-Qaeda operatives. A Russian military jeep drives up a narrow, winding track and is ambushed by bearded gunmen. In the resulting firefight, one of the attackers is killed. Such skirmishes happen almost daily in Chechnya, where Russia is fighting a war against separatist guerrillas. Just last week Chechen rebels shot down a Russian helicopter in neighboring Ingushetia, after reportedly entering the area from Georgia. But this particular scene is part of Marsho...
...night before and carried a spare in a plastic shopping bag. "All he said was that he was going to a public rally," recalls Ahmed, who had taken care of Siddique's family ever since the lad's father, a Pakistani artilleryman, was killed by Indian soldiers in a firefight in Kashmir in 1980, when Siddique was just...
...addict, murdered by drug runners when he was eight. After being sentenced to a maximum security prison in California for armed robbery in 1991, he found Islam. From there he headed to Afghanistan to train with Harakat-ul Jihad, then to Chechnya, where he lost a leg in a firefight with Russian special forces, and finally to Kosovo to help fight the Serbs. He describes with childlike glee his love of weapons and tactics. A daring nighttime raid on a Russian bunker becomes a brutal game when he and his comrades strip and take the encampment bare-chested, armed only...