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...blast they heard next wasn't theirs. "I saw a flash of light that was thrown at us, but it didn't reach us. Immediately after, another flash of light," Sergeant Ron Drori told TIME. "I understood right away it was a bomb." It wasn't a suicide attack, as early reports suggested, but a bomb thrown from a balcony. When the device detonated just feet from the soldiers, Palestinians on the roof opposite opened up with automatic weapons. "It was like a curtain of fire," said Drori. "We couldn't see anything, and all we could hear...
Once armed and informed of the rules by a drill sergeant-esque worker, the men engaged in several intense battles that each lasted about 20 minutes. (The war over theism was not the only one raging that afternoon in Paintball Heaven. The course is constantly in use by other groups. Allegedly in the name of bonding, fathers suited up with top-of-the-line guns and shot the hell out of their children...
...Educated at Julliard, DeLay's students included Itzhak Perlman and Midori. DIED. THOMAS J. KELLY, 72, engineer who oversaw design and construction of the Eagle lunar module that landed the first astronauts on the moon; in Cutchogue, New York. CONVICTED. TIMOTHY WOODLAND 25, Okinawa-based U.S. Air Force staff sergeant, for the rape last June of a 24-year-old local woman on the hood of a car at a shopping center; by a Japanese district court in Naha. The incident was the latest in a string of public relations debacles for the U.S. military in Okinawa, whose personnel number...
...rival factions, President George W. Bush has expressly warned that Washington is not interested in any notion of "nation building." His military, already looking beyond Afghanistan at the next targets in the war on terror, is even more blunt. "We're here to kill and destroy al-Qaeda," says Sergeant Major Frank Grippe, a 10th Mountain Division ground commander, during Operation Anaconda. "It's that simple." General Tommy Franks, chief of Central Command, tells TIME: "Any evolution beyond that, in terms of support to the Afghan government, to the interim authority, will require a decision by our President...
...fighting off Taliban and al-Qaeda incursions. "My men were whacking people from 400 to 500 meters," he said, "but there were also gunfights. We're talking nose to nose." Incessant mortar fire kept men pinned, squirming, to the ground. "With small arms, you can fight back," says Sergeant David Smith, who was hit twice. "But with mortars, you can't do anything much about it. We had to just lie on the ground and basically take it." By the time the first rescue helicopters arrived at 8 p.m., the 10th Mountain had 17 wounded. One man lost two toes...