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...interviewer (translated from German), "First, I'm going to do theater in London"--she will star in the play Proof--and then "I'd like to live in Europe for a while, in Berlin or Paris." She could just be making nice to Europeans, but she also sent a rocket back home: "The fact is, Hollywood is a male-dominated world." That doesn't seem to have hurt her career so far, though maybe an Oscar nod for The Royal Tenenbaums would have helped...
...traveling into the Taliban heartland, I normally join a vehicle full of soldiers, about eight or nine men armed with rocket-propelled grenade launchers and heavy machine guns to deter any unwanted attention. The trick I've adopted lately is wearing an Afghan costume and speaking a little Pashtu. It's allowed me to sneak in and out of the front lines with Afghan troops. But it has its downside. Soldiers think I'm Afghan and treat me like an Afghan. I've been manhandled and roughed up, and then I've had to reveal my identity...
...machine-gun fire has been heard throughout the night, and in the early hours of the morning, a hilltop observation post tells the team of U.S. special forces that there is suspicious movement south of the perimeter. Then comes small-arms fire, followed by the whoomp of an incoming rocket-propelled grenade. Tracers show a stream of outgoing rounds in reply. Afghan soldiers fighting with the Americans send their own RPGs into the night. The local Afghan commander, a short, stern man called Ismael, says they were plundered from a store of Taliban weapons he has discovered...
...World Trade Center bombing was not enough to convince Clinton to take a serious look at terrorism, what about the following bombings of American embassies around the world? In 1998 rocket-propelled grenades exploded near the heavily guarded U.S. embassy in Beirut. Shortly after, al-Qaeda terrorists bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, leaving 258 people dead and more than 5,000 injured. What was Clinton’s response? He blew up a pharmaceutical facility in the Sudan that he claimed was financed by Osama bin Laden. Later, serious doubts were raised about whether the facility was actually...
...altitudes above 8,000 ft. (2,440 m), troops fought on rocky, snow-patched mountain terrain and faced subfreezing temperatures at night. Enemy fighters were entrenched, zealous and far more numerous than the U.S. had estimated, using rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns against allied ground troops and aircraft...