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...dozens of Australian soldiers crept silently into Fatu Metan, a district in the west of the East Timorese capital, Dili. They surrounded a small house and laid a ladder up against the partially completed second story; across the road, snipers with laser sights took up positions on the roof of a partly demolished house. The soldiers, members of the International Stabilization Force attempting to restore calm to East Timor, believed that hiding inside the three-bedroom home was one of the country's most wanted men, Lieutenant Gustao Salsinha - sought in connection with the Feb. 11 attacks on President Jose...
About lunchtime, Cassidy spoke by telephone with his mother Kay McMullen. "Mom, there's a lift dropping huge bundles of shingles on top of the roof," she says he told her. "It seems like I'm back in Iraq again--my head is pounding." But around dinnertime he had an upbeat conversation with Melissa. He talked happily about visiting home the next weekend. Two weeks after that, he was to return for good and continue treatment at a civilian hospital...
...animals we don’t have yet,” wrote Alexander N. D’Amour ’08. But other residents remained concerned about flooding in other parts of the house. “We’re actually having problems with leaking from the roof,” said Christina N. Cordeiro ’09. “We have a leak by the entrance, one on the way up the stairs, one from the fireplace. That’s our biggest issue.” —Aditi Balakrishna contributed...
...squabbling over who is responsible for what is widely perceived as a botched firefighting job. Some local media reports are saying firefighters left the ancient gate early on, mistakenly believing the fire was under control. Other reports claimed the firefighters had focused their hoses on the structure's roof - which is all but waterproof - while the fire took hold below. The firefighters say they were told by the Cultural Heritage Administration, a body charged with the care of the nation's national treasures, to temper their aggression in fighting the fire, in order to make sure Seoul's oldest wooden...
...jolting three-hour drive out of Dili led to a tiny village high in the razor-like ridges behind the city of Ermera. Reinado's man then hid TIME's vehicle under an old farmhouse roof and snaked through a warren of tiny villages. Suddenly a group of black-clad rebels armed with automatic rifles materialized on a small ridge. In the middle of a nearby glade, Reinado, dressed in camouflage fatigues, held court. "The leaders say different things in front of the people and then different things in the back of the people," he began, angrily waving his rifle...