Word: hut
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...road. Sabur was in the back of a brightly colored pickup; two Americans sat in the cabin, and another team of special forces followed them. As the truck splashed around a muddy bend, Sabur told TIME, "al-Qaeda opened fire on us with something big." In a mud-brick hut was hidden an antiaircraft gun or mortar. Munitions ripped through the cabin. Sabur took shrapnel in his leg. The convoy returned fire and called in air support. Three helicopters thundered up the canyon, blasting away at enemy positions. A few days later, another Afghan from the convoy showed a TIME...
...airport, he disappeared inside and called a friend to pick him up. For the second flight east, Yuki strapped him to the seat. Ohno quickly became the uncut jewel of the U.S. program, but his lack of dedication was profound. He would duck into a Pizza Hut in the middle of training runs. "I just messed around during training, not focusing," he says now. "I didn't even know how to focus. I'd just...
Seven [Mexicans] take possession of a cross-roads hut in the outskirts of Parras. After three days of waiting they see an automobile coming down from the big ranch in the hills. As the car slows up at the cross-roads they open fire from seven rifles. Of 40 bullets which catch the car, 16 sink into the body of one man. Pancho Villa has been killed by his enemies... At the height of his fortune Villa commanded 35,000 men. He might, after his capture of Mexico City, have become dictator, but he lost his head, and in March...
yoram barak brushes past some purple bougainvillea and unlocks the heavy door to one of the psychogeriatric wards at Abarbanel. It's a hut built by the British army to handle mentally disturbed World War II soldiers. "If you'd been stuck in this place for 50 years, you wouldn't be doing very well, believe me," Barak says. Inside, old people in thin hospital smocks sprawl on the floor tiles to keep cool in the seaside humidity. Until they moved out last year, this was how the hospital's Holocaust survivors had lived for half a century. That move...
...Jihad checkpoint on the road outside Poso. "Do we have a letter of authorization?" he asks, keeping his finger on the trigger guard of his rifle. Although they muster only an antiquated shotgun and a homemade rifle among them, he hangs back from the villagers manning the makeshift wooden hut from which the black flag displaying Laskar's symbol of crossed scimitars droops in the afternoon heat...