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...mortars for six hours, one of the local fighters known as peshmerga told me, "These bombs don't recognize your identity." Territory shifts frequently. The day before the blast, the checkpoints were manned by a local fundamentalist militia, known as Komal, which is allied to Ansar and protects its northern flank...
...when a taxi passenger strapped with explosives detonated himself at a checkpoint. Afterward, Kurdish intelligence sources warned us that more bombers were aiming for journos and our hotel in Sulaimaniyah. American agencies also warned media organizations that intelligence traffic had picked up a threat against the press pack in northern Iraq. The Kurdish military increased protection for us, beefing up troops around our hotel, introducing stricter registration procedures and logging our travels more closely...
...been planning for the start of Gulf War II for months, so when the bombing began last week, we had more than two dozen journalists in the region. As you will see in the following pages, our colleagues very quickly witnessed the grimness of war. Last Saturday in northern Iraq, Michael Ware and photographer Kate Brooks were reporting on al-Qaeda-linked guerrillas when a suicide bomber detonated a taxi, killing five people, including an Australian cameraman. Early Sunday, Jim Lacey was sleeping in his tent in Camp Pennsylvania, in northern Kuwait, when he suddenly heard loud bangs. Two grenades...
With the win, Harvard virtually assured itself a spot in the NCAA tournament. The Crimson moved up to No. 12 in the USCHO.com PairWise Rankings, boosted by losses by Ohio State and Northern Michigan in the CCHA tournament and Minnesota State-Mankato and Minnesota-Duluth in the WCHA...
...Harvard men’s tennis team’s tough spring break road trip began unpleasantly in northern California, but concluded with a pair of encouraging wins in San Diego...