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...black coffee and smoking cigarettes, denies it all. "We've never been drug traffickers," he insists. And like other AUC leaders, he vows the group will never give up its wealth or submit to prosecution in the U.S. "We'll defend our freedom to the death," he says, a pistol slung from his hip. He leans back in a rawhide chair and calls his pet jaguar. "I don't like to keep her in a cage," he says as rifle-toting AUC soldiers in battle fatigues look on, amused. The AUC, whose top commanders are finally expected to arrive...
...arrived in Saudi Arabia a week earlier to cover the aftermath of the May 29 terrorist rampage in the oil-industry city of Khobar, which killed 22. As Gardner and Cumbers prepared to do some filming, a car pulled up alongside them. A man opened fire with a machine pistol, killing Cumbers and leaving Gardner fighting for his life. A photo taken by a bystander shows Gardner, his shirt and trousers soaked in blood, struggling to escape as a group of Saudis stood and watched. According to one account, he pleaded for help by claiming, "I'm a Muslim...
When Saddam Hussein was rousted from his spider hole in Dawr, a town near Tikrit, by U.S. soldiers last December, Iraq's fallen dictator was clutching a pistol. He is now in detention at an undisclosed location, being questioned by American authorities and awaiting charges for war atrocities and crimes against humanity. But what ever happened to the pistol...
...sidearm has made its way to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Sources say that the military had the pistol mounted after the soldiers seized it from Saddam and that it was then presented to the President privately by some of the troops who played a key role in ferreting out the old tyrant. Though it was widely reported at the time that the pistol was loaded when they grabbed Saddam, Bush has told visitors that the gun was empty--and that it is still empty and safe to touch. "He really liked showing it off," says a recent visitor to the White...
...pistol's new place of residence is in the small study next to the Oval Office where Bush takes select visitors after pointing out better-known White House pieces like the busts of Winston Churchill and Dwight D. Eisenhower and a watercolor called A Charge to Keep, which gets its name from a Methodist hymn. The study--the one where Bill Clinton held some of his infamous trysts with White House intern Monica Lewinsky--has become a place where Bush keeps the memorabilia that hold special significance for him. Another of the room's mementos: a photograph of special-forces...