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...neighboring Paktia province. That raid was supposed to take out a powerful clergyman named Mullah Jalani, who was accused by the Pentagon of operating training camps for mujahedin, hiding a sizable arsenal inside his stockade and firing at U.S. troops with what officials call a "crew-served machine gun." But many question why Jalani had been targeted. Just two days before, he had been drinking tea and cracking jokes with the pro-U.S. governor of the provincial capital, Gardez. Special-forces teams that operate out of a fortress near Gardez maintained a hands-off policy toward Jalani. They...
Barely two years after Sept. 11, the aging star of such thumpingly patriotic films as Top Gun returns to the screen in a film that glorifies suicide missions and characterizes a government as deserving of destruction because of its embrace of modernization and, most odiously, “the West...
With each passing scandal, we further alienate him from society and promote the eccentric behaviors we revile. The cycle needs breaking. To paraphrase Fiona Apple, it’s time we stopped fondling his trigger and then blaming his gun. It’s time...
Once again, the Harvard women’s hockey team unleashed an arsenal of offense upon its opponents, and once again junior winger Nicole Corriero proved to be the biggest gun...
...bullet-riddle corpse and a girl with a gun baffle a battered Nestor Burma in "The Bloody Streets of Paris...