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...Bush is ever at odds with language, as if he does not regard it as a reliable vehicle of thought. At his worst moments on the stump, his surreal moments, Bush is a sort of amateur terrorist of language, like an eleven-year- old Shi'ite picking up a Kalashnikov assault rifle for the first time and firing off words in wild bursts, blowing out the lamps, sending the relatives diving through the windows. Bush is mostly oblivious to the nuances of language, as if some moral or cultural dyslexia were knotting up the thought (which may explain...
...Jabalia and the other camps and towns of the West Bank and Gaza has been going on since 1967, when Israel seized control of the territories after winning the Six-Day War. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Israeli troops waged a ferocious struggle with the P.L.O., whose Kalashnikov-toting fighters killed scores of soldiers and civilians in the occupied territories. The Israelis eventually wiped out the P.L.O. threat in the West Bank and Gaza, helped in large part by King Hussein's successful 1970 campaign to drive the P.L.O. forces out of Jordan...
...Kunar province, northeast of Kabul, the rebels recently succeeded in organizing one of the largest and most complex offensives of the war. Long columns of mujahedin, armed with everything from 19th century Mausers to brand-new Egyptian- and Chinese-made Kalashnikov assault rifles, trudged up the forested ridges along the Pakistan-Afghan border. On Nov. 13 some 10,000 rebels attacked Soviet and Afghan government troops along a 60-mile front. In the first hour of the fighting, a mujahedin Chinese-made BM-12 rocket launcher at Nawa Pass, southeast of Asadabad, completely annihilated an Afghan army post...
Within minutes, the craft's single passenger was fulfilling his bloody mission. Armed with a Soviet-made Kalashnikov assault rifle, a pistol with a silencer, and several hand grenades, he ran toward a military camp 175 yds. away. He opened fire on a truck outside the base, killing the driver and wounding a woman soldier riding with him. As the attacker hurled grenades and sprayed bullets, the single guard at the gate retreated, allowing the assailant free entry into the camp. The man, who turned out to be a Palestinian guerrilla, had killed six Israeli soldiers and wounded seven others...
...first, it was hard to tell whether rebel troops in northern and eastern Uganda favored the weapons technology of the 20th century or that of the Stone Age. While some insurgents fought government troops with Kalashnikov rifles, many others went into battle bare chested and armed with nothing more than sticks and rocks. These warriors were following the orders of a 27-year-old self-styled "priestess" known as Mama Alice, who was trying to overthrow the government of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni with an odd mixture of Christian theology and African witchcraft. Believers in her Holy Spirit Movement...