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...When he heard on the radio that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center, he immediately knew that it was no accident. By the time he arrived at the lab and the second plane had hit, the Army reservist knew that the country would be going to war. And by the end of the day, the Tennessee native decided that he would do whatever it took to defend his country...
...story goes back to Oct. 30, 2004, when Tory Bowen, then a 21-year-old student at the University of Nebraska, met Pamir Safi, an Army reservist, at a downtown Lincoln bar. After sharing drinks, they left the bar together, went back to Safi's apartment and engaged in sexual intercourse. Bowen says she was too drunk - and, she believes, drugged - to consent to sex. Safi says their encounter was consensual...
...fighters - despite resolutions passed by the U.N. Security Council last summer calling for it to disband. What's more, the Shi'ite party appears to be preparing for battles on two fronts: against Israel and against Hizballah's sectarian rivals in Lebanon. Hizballah has begun marshaling a new reservist army of Shi'ite street fighters, which would allow Hizballah's regular combatants to concentrate on confronting Israel rather than becoming embroiled in fighting fellow Lebanese. "The war is coming definitely and Hizballah needs a fighting society," says Mohammed, a young Hizballah activist in Beirut...
...Harvard Yard (“looking puffy, greasy, and lumpy all at once…lighting a cigarette as if it might be his last”) is just plain blogworthy. Same goes for students who inject themselves into the public arena. When a Columbia student and Marine reservist started debating campus military recruiting on FOX News, for example, he became fair game; when it emerged in March that he’d acted under the nom de porn Rod Majors in such films as “Glory Holes of Fame 3” and “Touched...
...These sources said the bomber had left Gaza and crossed through the Sinai desert mountains, picking up his suicide vest from cohorts along the way, and then cut across the frontier, probably guided by Bedouin smugglers, not far from where he was picked up hitch-hiking by the Israeli reservist...