Word: gunman
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Then al-Sadr sweeps out to his waiting convoy. "Turn your back to the mosque," a gunman orders a journalist as al-Sadr heads for his vehicle. Outsiders are not allowed to see which one he gets into. Al-Sadr's bodyguards and escorts race to their cars. One of them, a cleric in a turban and a long robe, totes a light machine gun and nods politely as he trots by. While the rest of the crowd disperses, the mosque loudspeaker system calls for blood donors...
...Mahdi Army, a band of militants loyal to the firebrand Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who has holed up in Najaf for the past month to avoid capture by the 2,500 U.S. soldiers surrounding the city. As the Volvo neared the tiny brick-and-reed building, a gunman in the car opened up with his AK-47, hitting one of al-Sadr's men. Mahdi Army members say they ran the Volvo down, killing one of the three gunmen and capturing the remaining two. But other witnesses say the car disappeared into the night, its occupants unharmed. Either...
...only by lively and high-spirited interviews with Dominique himself, forever employing flamboyant gesticulations and smoking a pipe—allows for little surprise when the final tragedy of Dominique’s own death appear in full brutality on screen. He was gunned down in 2000 by a gunman employed by one of Aristide’s associates...
...fateful return to the Philippines, then ruled by his archenemy, Ferdinand Marcos. Aquino was gunned down when he left the plane. Sandy placed her tape recorder against a plane window, and its record of gunshots and shouting?and her reporting?would cast doubt on Marcos' contention that a lone gunman had killed his rival. By the time Sandy left the magazine in 1998, the woman who had been reluctantly let out into the field had become TIME's foreign correspondent emeritus. ?Howard Chua-Eoan, News Director...
...DIED. DURAID ISA MOHAMMED, 27, pictured top, and YASSER KHATAB, 25, employees of CNN who were killed when their car was attacked; south of Baghdad. They were in a two-car convoy that was fired upon by a gunman shooting through the sunroof of a rust-colored Opel. "There is no doubt in my mind that if our security adviser had not returned fire, everyone in our vehicle would have been killed," said CNN correspondent Michael Holmes, who was traveling in the other car in the convoy...