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...Pentagon. "I've got to tell you before we start there's some horrible, horrible news coming in," Leahy told the roomful of judges. By the time he was leaving the building, there were already 20 cops surrounding it. As he neared the Russell Senate Office Building, a Capitol policeman walked up: "Senator, I don't know if you want to go back to your office," he warned. "They're evacuating the buildings...
...wife, two-year-old son and four-month-old daughter back in Moscow, Sklyarov was typically upbeat about his imprisonment. He read mystery and romance novels to improve his English and felt he was learning a lot about U.S. society: "When you watch American movies, you see the policeman arrest somebody and read him his rights and that's all, but it's very interesting what happens after...
...burial, Gul says the authorities are claiming that Nadiya and Yusuf were caught in cross fire between security forces and separatist rebels. But he and other villagers are adamant there was no firefight. They say a policeman protecting the homes of minority Sikhs discharged his rifle by accident and the soldiers, on patrol nearby, thought they were under fire. "Even if there was a militant attack, who did they kill?" asks Nadiya's father, Nazir. His wife, Misra, looks at a picture of her dead daughter and begins to cry again...
...soldiers begin a sweep for the attackers. As Musharraf takes a break from his meetings to tour the Taj Mahal, men from the 8 JAK Rifles enter an orchard and force four laborers to leave with them. At dusk, villagers hear short bursts of gunfire. The next morning, a policeman reports that soldiers killed six "hard-core" militants during the search and a subsequent skirmish; three soldiers were injured. Four of the dead are later identified as Shawkat Ahmed, Mohammed Ashraf, Mohammed Sultan and Altaf Ahmed, all from the neighboring area of Rafiaabad. (The two others are not named.) District...
...Despite their optimism, Territorians have been prodded by the week's events to reflect on their home, and the vulnerability that comes with isolation. Dangling a shotgun as he waves down vehicles for inspection, a young policeman says this kind of violence is rare. But before motioning the next vehicle on, he adds a chilling caveat: "Now you wonder, though, how often murder does go on and we don't know about...