Word: jeep
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...early January 2002, and I wish I could close the back doors of this jeep to keep out the cold afternoon wind. I am tired and uncomfortable in a bulletproof vest, and scared of a bullet into the back of our vehicle looking for my head, or Ami’s, or Simon’s. It is reading period, and I am back in Israel for my yearly reserve duty; this time I am assigned to patrol the area between Jenin and Afula. We are five armored jeeps, our mission is to secure the famous 1967 border?...
MARKET DAYS A bone-jarring two-day jeep ride across Kyrgyzstan's border with China lies Kashgar, a hub on the Silk Road for more than a millennium. Camel trains laden with tea and textiles would emerge from the Taklamakan Desert, meeting other traders descending from the lofty Pamir Mountains, all survivors of terrible deprivation and brigandage. The glory days might be long gone but so are the bandits, and Kashgar welcomes ordinary tourists eager to see Central Asia's most spectacular market...
...edge of the casbah, Colonel Noam Tibon and his patrol funnel from their jeeps and spread out. It's 1 a.m. and the dark streets of Nablus, under curfew for almost four months, are deserted. Twelve hours ago, a Palestinian gunman shot two Israeli border policemen on this spot. Even now, the shadows and silence are deceptive. "If we stand here a few more minutes, they'll shoot at us," says Tibon, the 40-year-old commander of the Nahal Brigade. In those circumstances, most people would leave right away. But Tibon plans to stay. Israel's reoccupation...
...Once grown and pressed, Afghan hash is sold to freelance truck and jeep drivers who take it to Tajikistan or Kabul, where it is resold at four times the price. It's then smuggled via Central Asia or Pakistan to the West, where Afghan hash finds many eager buyers. But as dope smokers celebrate the new "enlightened" view of pot, any thought of the distant, parched land where it is grown has been lost in the haze. Back in the dust-bowl fields around Mazar, the growing foreign demand and new freedom to exploit it translate into a rare chance...
...people died on poll day, including nine civilians killed when suspected militants attacked a passenger bus in Kathua. In the following days, at least 22 more people were killed in separate incidents across the disputed territory. The dead included seven members of India's Border Security Force, whose jeep was blown up by a land mine. The election is scheduled to end on Oct. 8. PHILIPPINES Abu Sayyaf Strikes Security patrols were stepped up in the southern Philippines after a nail bomb killed an American soldier and two Filipinos. The blast, outside a bar near a Philippine army base...