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...were later trapped in the fort with Dave, Spann asked the prisoners who they were and why they joined the Taliban. They massed around him. "Why are you here?" Spann asked one. "To kill you," came the reply as the man lunged at Spann's neck. Spann drew his pistol and shot the man dead. Dave shot another, then grabbed an AK-47 from an Alliance guard and opened fire. According to eyewitness accounts given to the German team, the Taliban fighters launched themselves at Spann, scrabbling at his flesh with their hands, kicking and beating him. Spann killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Battle at Qala-I-Jangi | 12/1/2001 | See Source »

...Shit...shit...O.K....Shit...O.K. Hold on, buddy, we're coming to get you," he said. Then, cutting the radio, he turned to his commander: "Mike is MIA. They've taken his gun and his ammo. We have another guy. He managed to kill two of them with his pistol, but he's holed up in the north side with no ammo." As a hurried discussion of tactics began, Harley-Davidson went back to his radio. Then he cut in: "Shit. Let's stop f___ing around and get in there." Pointing to the sky, he added, "Tell those guys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Battle at Qala-I-Jangi | 12/1/2001 | See Source »

...sacrificed their careers to help ‘weaker friends along the stony and difficult path of self-government.’” Earlier that day, Roosevelt had made the eyes of Harvard President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, go wide by slamming a large pistol onto a guest room dresser and declaring his habit of packing heat in public places, including, it seems, Harvard’s normally gun-free commencement platform...

Author: By Graeme Wood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NO HEADLINE | 11/30/2001 | See Source »

...sacrificed their careers to help ‘weaker friends along the stony and difficult path of self-government.’” Earlier that day, Roosevelt had made the eyes of Harvard President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, go wide by slamming a large pistol onto a guest room dresser and declaring his habit of packing heat in public places, including, it seems, Harvard’s normally gun-free commencement platform...

Author: By Graeme Wood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Theodore Rex' Speaks Loudly | 11/30/2001 | See Source »

...Taliban grabbed some guns and started fighting, there were two Americans inside the fort: one of whom was disarmed and killed - he was called Mike - and another one was also in trouble; he was out of ammunition, he had managed to sort of hold off the Taliban with his pistol but he was out of ammunition when the main body of American and British people arrived. There's no word on his fate yet. But the Americans were mounting a rescue operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Update: American rescued from Taliban-held fort | 11/26/2001 | See Source »

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