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...brilliant” scheme didn’t work out as he’d hoped. B.J. ended up kneeling on the runway, handcuffed, in the care of a group of unsmiling police officers...
...downtown, if you're invited by a member of the Bangkok Sports Club?a 3-iron from the Rajadamri skytrain station between Siam Square shopping centers and Silom office towers. Some golfers never leave the airport area. Hole one of the Kantarat, the Thai air-force course, stretches between runways. It used to be open to anyone, but since the November 2002 attempted rocket attack on a plane in Kenya, the runway links have been closed to nonmembers to keep terrorists from pulling a surface-to-air missile from their golf bag. With the right caddy, they might not miss...
...volume. According to the retired American general hired by the network to interpret the war, those shoe-box-shaped structures are enemy barracks and that dark broken line is a convoy of armored vehicles closing in on Baghdad from the south. Now move even closer: an empty airport runway, a damaged tank and there, along the bottom, where the general is tapping his pointer--a human body? The orbiting camera has reached its limits, but the mind continues to zoom in until it's looking the dead man in the eye. The big picture no longer matters, just this small...
...moment. Soon afterward one of them, Sid Davis, the White House reporter for Westinghouse Broadcasting, climbed on the trunk of a car at the edge of Love Field and was relating the story of that frantic, improvised Inauguration. He had to pause as Air Force One roared down the runway and took off, heading back to Washington--the most devastating and yet the most historic flight that grand airplane had ever taken...
...time we got to the airport, having been delayed by a broken fuel pump, Basra International was deserted. The battle for the airport--McCoy would later describe it as "brutal"--was over. Before they fled, the Iraqis had set fire to the airport administration building and had strewn the runway with debris to prevent U.S. planes from using it. All that remained was a statue of a waving Saddam standing forlornly amid the wreckage...