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Satanic Verses Victim The Norwegian publisher of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses was shot in the back at his home outside Oslo by an unidentified gunman. William Nygaard, 50, was expected to recover fully from the attack. He is the third person to be injured or killed as the result of an association with the book...
...move, following a tricky routine perfected by reporters since the first U.S. troops landed last December. ''Getting around depends entirely on your translator and the driver and guards you hire,'' he reports. ''The right translator makes all the difference. 'Said' saved my life in December by talking a gunman out of shooting me for looking like an American.'' (He's actually Canadian.) Guards are also important: several gunmen protecting Andrew fired back when his truck was ambushed in the Bakhara market earlier this year, enabling him to make a quick getaway. Andrew rides around Mogadishu in an old Toyota Land...
...Jerusalem last suffered a terrorist attack in March, when a gunman entered a Jewish seminary and opened fire, killing eight students before he was shot down. That case was eerily similar to Wednesday's rampage in that both men appeared to be leading normal lives, with no apparent ties to Palestinian militants before something made them snap and start killing Israelis...
...deeply religious-the most openly devout political leader of Britain since William Ewart Gladstone more than 100 years ago. He handles questions about religion deftly. He doesn't back down. His longtime press secretary and consigliere, Alastair Campbell, remembers Blair in 1996 at a school in Scotland where a gunman had killed 16 children and a teacher. In a bloodstained classroom, Campbell asked Blair, "What does your God make of this?" Blair, says Campbell, stopped and replied, "Just because man is bad, it does not mean that God is not good." There was, says Campbell, a force, a sense...
...Millan appears to have been targeted in retaliation for the federal police jailing such top cartel figures as Sinaloa honcho Arturo Beltran. The accused gunman, Alejandro Ramirez, was waiting inside the police chief's Mexico City apartment early last Thursday morning when Millan, 41, returned home. Ramirez allegedly shot Millan nine times as Millan turned on the lights. Millan's bodyguard was also shot, but managed to subdue Ramirez, who was arrested along with Montes and five other alleged conspirators. Mexican authorities say Montes, the federal police officer, was collared with incriminating documents, including the license plate numbers of senior...