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...What has changed, says Bampi, is the way the drug moves around the streets. The footpath used to be the marketplace, but since police in Footscray and other known suburban hotspots began cracking down with more patrols, undercover surveillance and arrests, dealing has moved to darker corners. There, says Tregear, it's harder for police, health professionals and drug workers to find addicts. "You used to almost get killed in the rush of people selling out there," he says. Bampi's friends now ring contacts to organize deals, arranging to buy in cars, parks or busy shops. "It might take...
...Within minutes of the blast the scene at the embassy was one of furtive screaming, blazing vehicles, dismembered victims and rescuers blindly running in belching smoke, scouring for survivors. The wounded, draped in blood, were stumbling onto the footpath or being carried from the building towards the wailing of approaching ambulance sirens. Nearby, naked torsos littered the pavement and embassy doorways. Little crimson lakes of blood pooled on the concrete. People dashing in and out of the building stepped high over the dead, some without looking down, their gaze fixed ahead. The wounded went to the ambulances first. As each...
...sliced through the windscreen and panels of the 4x4, hitting Qadir in the head. Turning wildly to the right, the vehicle collided with metal poles lining the driveway, tearing them from the ground. The gunmen continued firing, pouring rounds through the rear window as the car careered along the footpath and crashed into a concrete wall at full speed. Jaffa's lifeless body was later pulled from the wreckage. Blood and brain matter covered the 4x4's dashboard. White tufts of padding poked through holes in the Qadir's passenger seat headrest. Black prayer beads were coiled on a console...
...target is not dogs. "He wants to hurt people," she says. "He is motivated to target and hurt the dog owners for some reason, to create misery." To that end, police offer a more prosaic premise. According to Skinner, the killer is likely annoyed by dog droppings along the footpath. "It's more probably a revenge thing," he says. "Basically, the rationale would be: 'If you're going to foul the path, then I'm going to kill the dogs...
...Arab street has, for all intents and purposes, been quiet." His office has tallied the number of demonstrations in the Arab world since the U.S. began bombing Afghanistan; there were nine that first week and only a few afterward. That maddened street now seems more like an overgrown footpath...