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...doesn't take long for the war to interrupt our reverie. At dusk, gunfire erupts from Al Shifaniyah as a Black Hawk flies low overhead. An hour later, Staff Sgt. Scott Fountain snaps open the company radio. "Rock 6, Rock 6. Two men walking across the bridge, something in their hands." Illuminated rounds are sent up, the two men hit the ground and don't move. After watching them for half an hour on his Bradley's thermal scanner, Captain Melendez orders several bursts of rounds over their heads to scare them off. It works. The men slink off down...
...group of percussionists from MIT, wearing white jumpsuits, beats a complex rhythm on a full complement of real instruments as news and police helicopters circle overhead...
Over the course of the day, the protesters—some laden with pamphlets and posters, some limping on crutches—moved from Cambridge to Boston, pausing for almost half an hour on the Harvard Bridge to sit and to dance as helicopters hovered overhead and a drum team from MIT beat syncopated rhythms and swayed on the asphalt...
...southern Iraq, however, reconnaissance on the key city of Basra is proving difficult. Overhead surveillance can help identify targets and track large weapons and troop movements. "We know where everything is," the Western diplomat asserts. But Special Forces Groups face a much harder task, forging local alliances and even gauging what the mood is on the ground. "Southern Iraq is an intelligence black hole," says a senior British military source, noting that Marine assault units will be guided into the area by Iraqi exiles, some of whom haven't been inside their native land for a decade...
...bodyguards--American special forces--are so wary of another assassination attempt that even Cabinet ministers are frisked before they enter his office. When Karzai left the palace last week to begin the journey that will take him to Japan and the U.S., American F-16 fighter jets prowled overhead to ensure that no missile-toting foe shot down his plane...