Word: ganges
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...speed up the digging, the gang blows out a crater at the surface with dynamite. They are careful not to set off the charge directly over the tomb--the impact might collapse the roof...
...tunnel 115 ft. deep is excavated. The gang uses ropes to lower members and gear into the hole. An AIR BLOWER powered by a PORTABLE GENERATOR pumps in fresh air from the surface...
...raiders saw through the tomb's wood-plank roof. Wearing GAS MASKS, the gang now has access to the burial chamber--and all the treasures it contains...
...Despite these small victories, it is still just the beginning of a difficult battle to root out terrorism in the Philippines, a task that is further complicated by the predominantly Catholic country's longstanding warfare against two other terrorist groups: Abu Sayyaf, an Islamic gang of kidnappers, and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), a homegrown Muslim separatist organization in Mindanao with some 12,500 members. While attempting to harass Abu Sayyaf into extinction, Arroyo has also been trying to end years of bloodshed by negotiating a peace treaty with the MILF...
...immigrant, suffered shrapnel wounds in Iraq in early April. "My son is a hero for what he did in Iraq, but for him to die in America like this makes no sense," his mother told the San Francisco Chronicle. Investigators say Ung may have been shot mistakenly by a gang member...