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...chaotic conditions at the stadium appalled the intelligence official and a Pentagon source who accompanied him there. The men saw young boys being held at gunpoint, kneeling in the hot sand. An Army sergeant, asked why a boy was being detained, replied, "He was caught riding on the back of a stolen bicycle." Says the intelligence source: "This kind of treatment would never be tolerated in the U.S., so why here? Aren't we supposed to be showing them a different way?" Hamoudi, who eventually made it to Jordan, says the American soldiers who arrested him stole two wristwatches...
...recalls the day Israeli soldiers spotted his white Citroen van on the shoulder of a back road outside the West Bank town of Nablus and, hearing the murmuring behind its closed curtains, concluded they had stumbled on a nest of suicide bombers. At gunpoint, the American exited his vehicle and explained that the six Palestinians with him were a clandestine Christian Bible-study group avoiding the prying eyes of their neighbors. "They are in danger," he told the baffled soldiers--"in danger of being killed." Sam claims to have led more than 100 Palestinians to Christ but says that...
...that he had secured his first cousin's release from another gang. So Salahuddin knew exactly what was happening when 10 armed men surrounded his Jeep on March 25 as he drove to a party meeting in a remote corner of India's northeastern Bihar state. Holding him at gunpoint, they yelled: "Move and we'll shoot!" Salahuddin recalls: "There was nothing I could do. In some ways I wasn't even surprised...
...dispatched by the Thai government to Umphang, 670 kilometers northwest of Bangkok. Today, it's a region showered with ecotourism awards for its hill-tribe homestays and treks. But back then, it was a hotbed of communist insurgency. Five guerrillas had stopped Boonma at gunpoint one day and marched him to a village. "I was so scared," he recalls. "There were communists everywhere, more than 1,000 men, and I realized I'd stumbled upon their hideout. The leader introduced himself, put his gun under my chin and told me they shot government spies." Boonma was beaten and interrogated. "They...
...Windward Mark grow tense when asked who is the best video game player. Most members demur, insisting that it “depends on the game,” and their favorites range from Privateer Wing Commando to The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. At gunpoint, however, most admit that Truelson, when motivated, is always capable of being the best at a game. By contrast, they speak loudly and in unison about their least skilled member. “Aaron [Siegel] is the worst,” they say, and he nods his head up and down...