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...That threat may have emanated from a Nauru-registered Islamist website run by the previously unknown Brigade Istimata Internasional, which features what it claims is a floor plan of a U.S. embassy and lays out ways to attack the ambassador's office with rocket-propelled grenades or a mixture of TNT and the rodenticide Rodex. Anti-American sentiment has been running high in Indonesia, with the recently retracted Newsweek report on abuses of the Koran at the U.S.'s Guant?namo Bay detention camp prompting protests in several cities. And Indonesian newspapers reported last week that a group of 23 Indonesians...
...climbing the path toward the gun emplacement. The troopers fired shots and threw a grenade in an effort to keep them back, but the Afghans split up and outflanked them. Within minutes, bullets were whizzing from all directions. Machinegun rounds churned up the dirt, Kalashnikov bullets cracked overhead and rocket-propelled grenades screamed past. One grenade tore between two troopers who were just meters apart, detonating behind them with an ear-shattering airburst. The soldiers blazed away at the Afghans, trying to stop them from reaching the high ground. Discarding their packs, the Australians headed for a small plateau about...
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Mann, the power-hitting Crimson catcher, woke up his teammates with a rocket shot into the stands just beyond the home dugout to lead off the second. In the same at-bat, he bounded Harvard’s first hit of the day through the infield and, following a Steffan Wilson groundout, scored the Crimson’s first run of the NCAA Tournament...
Junior shortstop Morgan Brown and junior right-fielder Lance Salsgiver both made the second team. Brown—the team’s everyday shortstop and infield anchor—had missed five straight games due to a serious virus before returning to play last Tuesday against Northeastern. The rocket-armed, fleet-footed Salsgiver—who, notably, was clocked by scouts at 90 mph in relief against Dartmouth last weekend—led the team with 12 stolen bases in 14 attempts, hitting...