Word: gunman
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...gunman stood sentry near the gates of the compound, waiting for an opening as the departing motorcade approached. Inside a luxury suv was Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan, who had come to Kandahar to attend his brother's wedding. His security detail, a clutch of U.S. commandos, rode in a separate vehicle. Karzai was on his way out of the compound of Gul Agha Sherzai, Kandahar's provincial governor, who sat beside him in the car, when he was approached by an Afghan youth hoping to meet the President. A leader known for his affability, Karzai lowered the window...
...gunman, Abdul Rahman, 22, who was part of Sherzai's security detail, raised his weapon and pumped several rounds into the car. Amazingly, Karzai managed to duck the bullets. One grazed Sherzai's neck, and another struck a U.S. soldier. A nearby youth, 19, by some accounts the one who had moved forward to greet Karzai, shoved Rahman to the ground. The U.S. commandos then bounded out of their vehicle and opened fire. Rahman, the youth and an Afghan bodyguard died in the fusillade. Back in Kabul that night, Karzai seemed unfazed by his brush with death but aware that...
...seize parts of Palestinian Authority territory and hold them as long as attacks continue. Dozens of Israeli tanks and armored vehicles backed by helicopter gunships stormed the West Bank towns of Jenin, Qalqilya and Nablus. Troops entered Ramallah and Bethlehem, while helicopters .red on the Gaza Strip. A Palestinian gunman killed five Israeli settlers in Itamar on the West Bank. EUROPE Empty Skies Travel plans were thrown into chaos as air-traffic controllers went on strike to protest an E.U. plan to put the Continent's airspace under international controls. Almost all French short-haul flights were affected...
Fortuyn had laid out some of that political smorgasbord last Monday afternoon at a Hilversum radio studio, where he also predicted he would live to the ripe age of 86. As he left the studio, a gunman approached him in the parking lot and fired five shots, hitting the candidate in the head, chest and neck. He died soon after...
NETHERLANDS United in Death In life Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn divided his countrymen with controversial views on immigration. But after a gunman shot dead the flamboyant sociologist, who founded his eponymous party three months ago, thousands of Dutch, including many opponents, came together to demonstrate their horror at his death. More than 15,000 people lined the streets and 800 packed Rotterdam Cathedral for his funeral. Police arrested animal-rights campaigner Volkert van der Graaf on suspicion of the murder...