Word: gunfights
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...turnout in a similar referendum prompted parliament leaders to say that they will ratify E.U. entry regardless - a move that angered many Slovaks. FREE AT LAST ALGERIA Seventeen European tourists held hostage for three months by Islamic militants in the Western Sahara were freed by Algerian commandos after a gunfight that left one soldier and at least four kidnappers dead. Military officials said that the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) were responsible for the kidnappings. Germany's intelligence service says the group has never targeted civilians, and one of the hostages said the kidnappers wanted money. Members...
...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...