Word: gunfights
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...Branchville, Ala.--particularly the women--were so angry about the marriage that they picketed the couple's home and openly insulted Melanie, calling her "white trash." Darryl, who admits to having had a temper back then, struck back when someone fired into their home in 1996, and a gunfight erupted. Melanie's son Adam, then 13, was wounded...
...Afghan border town of Spin Boldak, much farther south, and four U.S. intelligence agents carrying satellite phones and bags full of gear arrived at the nearby Pakistani town of Quetta, capital of Baluchistan province. At the same time, persistent reports, denied by Administration officials, came in of a gunfight involving two of bin Laden's sons close to Ribat, a smuggler's crossing in the far west of Baluchistan where the borders of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran meet...
...with a toothless League of Nations-style operation than with decisive action of any sort. But Bush--and his divided Administration--have been less than magisterial in their poker game with Saddam, a game that seems destined to end as so many did in the Old West, with a gunfight...
...ocean and you see how far you are from home and you're never going to get there, that all works on your mind." Meanwhile, at a secret location, CIA officers continue to question Abu Zubaydah, the suspected al-Qaeda operations chief who was captured after a March gunfight in Faisalabad, Pakistan. Abu Zubaydah, say CIA and other U.S. government sources, is not being tortured, but a variety of methods are being used to encourage him to talk. Typical military interrogation tactics would include depriving him of sleep, changing the temperature of his cell and "modulating caloric intakes"--spookspeak...
Perhaps most significant of all, Abu Zubaydah was captured in March after a gunfight in Faisalabad, Pakistan, at the end of a police raid. He had played key roles both in the camps and in running al-Qaeda operations, and his arrest, says Roland Jacquard, a leading French expert on Islamic terrorism, was "an enormous, stupendous blow to al-Qaeda." Abu Zubaydah seems to have specialized in organizing al-Qaeda operatives based in Europe and North America. Ahmed Ressam, the Montreal-based "millennium bomber" captured at the end of 1999 while attempting to cross from Canada into Washington State with...