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...images that give "collateral damage" incidents their power to affect the course of war: the young Vietnamese girl, her skin burned away by napalm, running down a street; the corpses of Iraqi women killed in a bomb shelter; bodies strewn around a Yugoslav passenger train struck by a NATO rocket, and so on. Already Al Jezeera, the only TV network with a bureau in Kabul, is carrying images of the broken bodies of civilian casualties. And on the Internet, ordinary citizens are able to see the latest photographs posted by the wire services even before the photo editors of their...
...Afghans took down 269 Soviet aircraft with them in 340 attempts. But less high-tech weaponry will serve just as well; in 1993 in Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 U.S. soldiers were killed, including six Delta Force commandos who tried to rescue airmen from two Black Hawk helicopters downed by rocket-propelled grenades...
...Afghans took down 269 Soviet aircraft with them in 340 attempts. But less high-tech weaponry will serve just as well; in 1993 in Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 U.S. soldiers were killed, including six Delta Force commandos who tried to rescue airmen from two Black Hawk helicopters downed by rocket-propelled grenades...
Yenne received the ball at midfield with only one defender to beat. She wasted no time taking the ball hard at the defender. Yenne faked a shot and cut right, leaving the Tiger defender in her tracks before unleashing a rocket from 18 yards out that grazed the inside of the right post on its way into the back of the Princeton goal...
...precision - most guidance systems have been taken out by the bombing of Kabul. Instead they seem to be groping blindly through the sky, in the general direction of a plane, which circled unconcerned, high above our heads. A local guerrilla, a sort of village idiot with an RPG (rocket propelled grenade), climbed out the trench and did a clumsy pantomime, pretending in the full view of the Taliban to be shooting down the plane with his rocket propelled grenade. Suddenly there was an explosion in the distance, but for the first time in this war the smoke could be seen...