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...York City's security systems have been among the strictest in the country since Sept. 11, 2001. But the city learned today that those measures are not infallible, after a gunman entered City Hall in Manhattan and shot a councilman to death...
...hours after the shooting, which occurred just after 2pm, New Yorkers were horrified that a gunman could have brought a weapon into a municipal building after Sept. 11. In this case, Davis had brought his killer into the building himself, inadvertently helping him bypass security. New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg said security videotapes - which do not record audio - showed Askew and Davis outside City Hall, where they had a conversation. They then went through the security booth at the west gate, but did not pass through the metal detector. Bloomberg said city council members, as well as the mayor, were...
...Other talk-radio hosts have faced similar threats?and more?for their outspoken ways. In the mid-'80s, Jun Pala, a firebrand radio host in the southern Philippine city of Davao had his program interrupted when an assailant shot him in the recording booth. The gunman was believed to be a communist insurgent, angry at Pala's vocal anticommunist stance. This year, Pala was shot at again, this time by men in police uniforms. Although Pala escaped unscathed, two of his bodyguards were seriously injured. A fellow Filipino radio broadcaster wasn't so lucky. The same day Pala was attacked...
...lone gunman rounds the hill, keeping his enemy in the crosshairs. As a band of mercenaries encircles him, he tosses a plasma grenade their way, killing two of them on impact. Then he raises his rocket launcher and shoots his nemesis right between the eyes. But this battle is not totally without compassion. Turning to his left, the gunman asks, “You all right, Wildfire? Your head looks kind of caved...
Naked force and utter ruthlessness were Saddam's preferred methods for staying atop his country's turbulent politics. From the day Saddam at age 20 launched his career as a gunman for the nationalist Baath Party, he knew what it meant to be in an enemy's cross hairs. When Iraq's military toppled the monarchy in 1958, mobs dragged the mutilated bodies of the regent and Prime Minister through Baghdad's streets and hanged them from city gates. Saddam himself tried--but failed--to assassinate the leader of the coup, Abdul Karim Qaseem. And when Baath plotters did murder...