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...Ahmed tells the story, sometime after midnight he retired to a bedroom in the safe house and prayed for a few minutes "until my heart rested." Then he rejoined the others and stole out into the night. The posse split up, says Ahmed. Five moved on foot, and three rode small motorcycles. At about 1 a.m., they attacked from two directions, opening up with Kalashnikovs and firing two rocket-propelled grenades at the buildings. Ahmed says that the U.S. soldiers returned fire and that the next day they left the compound. "Every time they retreat it is a victory...
...just a writer making the most of the lavish realities of Latin America. After reading his abundant new memoir, Living to Tell the Tale (Knopf; 484 pages), you'll be inclined to agree. In a warm but largely matter-of-fact style, he recalls the headless man who rode past one day on a donkey, killed by a machete in a settling of accounts on the nearby banana plantation. Then there was the fishing town full of men mutilated because they had been too slow to throw the sticks of dynamite they used to stun the fish. Or the first...
...Diego, a fire fighter trying to save a house died when a freak turn of wind blew the fire in his direction; the colleague who tried to save him sustained burns over 20% of his body. Some people were luckier. A couple in Lake View Hills Estates rode out the fire by diving into their swimming pool as the windows of their house exploded around them...
Karzai's chief aide, Omar Daudzay, told a Kabul radio station that "the talks were initiated at the Taliban's request." But why has Karzai, of all people--the man who rode into Afghanistan on a motorcycle soon after the Sept. 11 attacks to foment an anti-Taliban revolt among Pashtun tribes--responded to their overtures? In a word, pragmatism. The Taliban and al-Qaeda are gaining ground in remote areas, where they have found support among Pashtun tribesmen who feel Karzai's government is too top-heavy with Tajik, Uzbek and Hazara tribal leaders--their rivals for political power...
When poll numbers indicated that his opponent was beating him in the last days leading up to the election, Romney rode through the state on a bus named the “Wheels of Change...