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...house in Fallujah a few blocks from two sites the cell had decided to target: the mayor's office and an adjacent building once belonging to the Baath Party but now used by provisional Iraqi officials and, on this night, U.S. soldiers. As Ahmed tells the story, sometime after midnight he retired to a bedroom in the safe house and prayed for a few minutes "until my heart rested." Then he rejoined the others and stole out into the night. The posse split up, says Ahmed. Five moved on foot, and three rode small motorcycles. At about 1 a.m., they...
Illusions to Strummer’s past abound. “Arms Aloft in Aberdeen” recalls his days with The Clash when he asks, “May I remind you of that scene?” “Midnight Jam” features vocal samples echoing the words “this is London calling.” “Burnin’ Streets” poignantly chants “London is burning,” but trades the raucous and youthful frustration of “London’s Burning?...
Slipping in under the midnight wire to the newly re-established Bow Street Dunkin’ Donuts, that glittering beacon of inexpensive (and occasionally stale) caffeinated products and baked goods, a late-night customer is immediately struck by the ample stock of untouched muffins and doughnuts, getting staler by the minute under the heat lamps...
...where they are stabilized before heading to the U.S. The most seriously injured are flown to Andrews Air Force Base, outside Washington, usually on nighttime flights, and then transported to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington or Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland. "The wounded are brought back after midnight, making sure the press does not see the planes coming in with the wounded," said Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont on Oct. 16 on the Senate floor...
...residents’ dismay, many of the alarms have sounded at the time when most students are in the building—between midnight and breakfast...