Word: gunman
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...Haji Shir Mohammed began by defending the resilient warlord he'd come to tame. Rais was never the Taliban powerbroker people had thought, the governor insisted. I looked at our Taliban gunman. He had fought with Rais against the Northern Alliance in the Panjshir Valley and well knew his authority. The gunman rolled his eyes. The governor went on: Rais and the elders had "confirmed the absence of Mullah Omar". We asked how he could be so sure? "All the people of Baghran are of our tribe, my own tribe (Alizai). I'm quite sure they wouldn't create problems...
...treated John F. Kennedy's gunshot wounds; of natural causes; in Fort Worth, Texas. In his controversial 1992 book, JFK: Conspiracy of Silence, Crenshaw argued that the President was shot twice from the front in addition to having been shot from behind--suggesting the involvement of more than one gunman. The Warren Commission had found that a lone Lee Harvey Oswald fired from behind...
...story's protagonist, Maria McShane, lost an eye in a bombing in Northern Ireland in 1976. She was pregnant at the time. Eighteen years later, the son she was carrying back then was shot by a Protestant gunman. Her son's murder shattered the family, but Maria says, "We always told our other children, 'Protestants didn't do this, one man did this...
...Sides At least 49 people died in a week of politically inspired killings. Paramilitaries from the right-wing United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia shot dead 24 men in the village of Buga. Leftist rebels were blamed for the deaths of two kidnapped policemen, while an unknown gunman assassinated congressman Luis Alfredo Colmenares...
SWITZERLAND The Gunman with a Grudge The peace of a quiet Thursday morning in the Swiss town of Zug was shattered by a gunman armed with an assault rifle and a grenade. Friedrich Leibacher burst into a regional assembly meeting and opened fire, leaving 14 dead, before turning the gun on himself. Three of the victims were members of Zug's cantonal government. Police believe Leibacher's rampage originated in a row with a Zug bus driver two years ago. Athough nearly 400,000 Swiss men are army reservists who keep weapons at home, gun crime has been rare, with...