Word: jafre
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fighting vehicles, the American soldiers of Coldsteel Company swarm into a clutch of farmhouses as a platoon of Estonian infantry closes from the rear. The Americans are part of the 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment's operation to seal off a stretch of villages hugging the Euphrates in the Jafr Sakhr region, about 60 miles southwest of Baghdad. "Go round 'em up," a U.S. officer hollers, and male villagers of military age--one with his crying 3-year-old clinging to his neck--are sifted out. A humvee approaches and stops in front of the lined-up Iraqis. From within...
...showers. Then a couple of hundred Bedouins showed up one night, circled the camp, rattled their pots and pans and cried: "We are your guests." The law of the desert says that water must be shared, and that forced Abou Ben Spiegel out of Jebel Tubeiq. Recently at El Jafr, the company has moved prudently from water hole to water hole, will soon reach Petra, where, according to local legend, Moses struck the rock that gushed water. ¶ On Vieques, an island nine miles off the east coast of Puerto Rico, Director Peter Brook is doing a film version...
| 1 |