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...that sniper," a Special Forces soldier tells his buddy. "I wanted to drop some mortar on top of him but the pesh were too close." On this day's battle, three American snipers lay behind a rock, patiently waiting to sight their Ansar counterparts far above in the Shram Mountain. "There's a sniper playing with us," says a soldier. The American snipers' high-powered rifles crack intermittently. After the incoming rounds seem to cease, they pick themselves up. "I think between us we smoked three guys, sir," one says. "Oh, at least," adds another...
Around this time, the trio vacated its mountain hideaway. And as the Smarts continued to hold twice-daily press briefings about their missing daughter, Elizabeth and her captors began living openly in the streets of downtown Salt Lake. With their eccentric dress--all three wore billowy robes, and the women adorned their heads with burqa-like coverings--the threesome was hard to ignore and at times seemed to flagrantly court attention. On Sept. 27, Mitchell had the first of two brushes with law enforcement when he was picked up for shoplifting batteries, gum, a flashlight and a beer from...
...Erbil to the north and west were filled with cars jammed to the gills, pickups loaded high. The family of Michael Ibrahim was stuffed into an Opel Vectra (11 people) and a beat up Nissan pickup (five in front, five small children perched on top of a mountain of the family's possessions tied down with yellow nylon rope in the back). A baby cradle was tied to the top of the truck. They were leaving Erbil and heading to the Duhok area. "We're afraid of [the Iraqis] using chemical weapons," he said. They were leaving only his brother...
...young boy returned to the mountain village of Letefoho in fear and disgrace. He was a child in 1999 when, swept up in the militia violence that followed East Timor's vote for independence, he burnt down his aunt's house and fled. When he finally came home this year, the teenager had no idea of what he would face. He bought new roofing material for his aunt and waited. And in a public ceremony last month, he apologized to her and to his neighbors, and was forgiven...
...Exorcist director William Friedkin—begins with a quote from the Bible, as interpreted by Bob Dylan: “Oh God said to Abraham, ‘Kill me a son.’” The plot follows accordingly, setting peace-loving L.T. Hallam (a mountain man reminiscent of Jack London, played by Tommy Lee Jones) on the trail of Aaron Hallam (Benicio del Toro), when the latter—a Special Forces superman scarred by his service in Kosovo—goes on a killing rampage in the suburbs of Portland, Oregon. Violently stabbing...