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...Worst City in al-Anbar Province - Ramadi, hands down. The provincial capital of 400,000 people. Lots and lots of insurgents killed in there since we arrived in February. Every day is a nasty gun battle. They blast us with giant bombs in the road, snipers, mortars and small arms. We blast them with tanks, attack helicopters, artillery, our snipers (much better than theirs), and every weapon that an infantryman can carry. Every day. Incredibly, I rarely see Ramadi in the news. We have as many attacks out here in the west as Baghdad. Yet, Baghdad has 7 million people...
...that does not include regular beheadings and women wearing burqahs. There were seven of them. As they brought the mayor out to put him in a pick-up truck to take him off to be beheaded (on video, as usual), one of the Bad Guys put down his machine gun so that he could tie the mayor's hands. The mayor took the opportunity to pick up the machine gun and drill five of the Bad Guys. The other two ran away. One of the dead Bad Guys was on our top twenty wanted list. Like they...
...interaction with the troopers,” the charming and cordial actor says. “You remember that movie ‘The Hard Way,’ with Michael J. Fox? I was kind of like Fox, like ‘Hey guys, can I get a gun?’ And they were like, ‘Shut up, no.’ They didn’t give me a gun, luckily...
SPEAKING OF POLICE, the Cornell Daily Sun reports: "Police Prepared for Violence." Wait, is there a threat on campus? Well, no. But there have been a lot of school shootings recently, and, well, you can never be too prepared. Cue the guy with the gun: “We have carefully-devised, well-rehearsed plans affecting the health and safety of the community,” said Chief Curtis Ostrander, director of Cornell University Police Department. “Because we use firearms, we train for incidents and emergencies during the summer, when students aren’t here...
...longer to approve a blue-helmeted force” for Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region as mandated by UN Resolution 1706. Sudan’s President Omar El Bashir responded by insisting that the situation in Darfur is under control. But even as he spoke, gun fights erupted between his army and Darfuri rebels in the posh streets of Omdurman, across the river from the Sudanese capital of Khartoum. With a third of Darfur’s 7.4 million people displaced and an estimated 200,000 killed by the conflict since it began in 2003, aid agencies...