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...Aviv on a suicide mission. Then the sight of one of his handlers munching a sandwich sets him thinking about his mother, and how he has forgotten to give her some last-minute household instructions. "Mom, before I forget," he says, veering from the script, clutching a Kalashnikov rifle, "I saw some good water filters at Al Mokhtar ... buy them there next time." In a film packed with wrenching moments, this one remains one of the most shocking, even for the filmmaker who crafted it. Abu-Assad, 43, an Arab-Israeli who emigrated to Amsterdam in the early 1980s...
...that the youngest was only 17 years old and would have to be retried in a juvenile court. A fifth defendant, Mohammed Issa Abbas, who was arrested in Genoa carrying false passports before the ship set sail, received a $1,700 fine and a nine-year sentence for smuggling Kalashnikov automatic rifles and hand grenades into Italy. Abbas, 24, told the court that he is a cousin of Abul Abbas. GREECE An Anniversary Gets Ugly...
...from the village below, some climbing the path toward the gun emplacement. The troopers fired shots and threw a grenade in an effort to keep them back, but the Afghans split up and outflanked them. Within minutes, bullets were whizzing from all directions. Machinegun rounds churned up the dirt, Kalashnikov bullets cracked overhead and rocket-propelled grenades screamed past. One grenade tore between two troopers who were just meters apart, detonating behind them with an ear-shattering airburst. The soldiers blazed away at the Afghans, trying to stop them from reaching the high ground. Discarding their packs, the Australians headed...
...last week following the coup on July 27 that ousted President Apollo Milton Obote. In contrast to the friendly welcome, the travelers gave chilling eyewitness accounts of the confusion and fear that shook the Ugandan capital of Kampala after the coup. Bands of drunken soldiers armed with Soviet-made Kalashnikov rifles, sometimes replaced by gangs of thugs brandishing long knives, roamed through the city, looting stores, stealing cars and harassing Ugandans and foreigners alike...
...Cassarà, 38, the head of Palermo's homicide squad, turned into the courtyard of the housing complex, Laura Cassarà waved to her husband from their apartment window. Cassarà and his two escorts sprinted up the steps leading to the building, but before the policeman could turn the doorknob, three Kalashnikov submachine guns sprayed a flood of bullets from the windows of three floors of a building across the street. Cassarà and one of his bodyguards died in the fusillade...