Word: shirred
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...Last week there were other visitors. Five four-wheel-drive vehicles carrying about 20 U.S. special-forces soldiers raced through Musa Qal'eh with U.S. helicopters and fighter-bombers overhead. Accompanying them was a band of Afghan fighters and the governor of Helmand, Haji Shir Mohammed. The convoy was on its way to the nearby town of Baghran to meet an aged, white-bearded tribal leader named Rais, better known as "the Baghran"-the most powerful warlord in the area and a possible link to Omar...
...fought hard for the Taliban, said last week he was willing to surrender to the new U.S.-backed Afghan government. What got the U.S. especially interested were intelligence reports that it was Rais who had chaperoned Omar on his escape from Kandahar. Rais denies those reports. On Saturday, Governor Shir told Time that in meetings with U.S. special forces, Rais had "confirmed the absence" from the area of both Omar and Osama bin Laden but agreed to help in the search. The Americans spent three days in Baghran, seized heavy weapons and ammunition, but made no arrests. The protracted surrender...
...Wednesday night the bandits came, brandishing rifles and flashing knives. In Kandahar's outer suburb of Manan Medical, 15 men smashed doors at one mudbrick house after another. Shir Mohammed's weaponless neighbors were robbed with blades to their throats. At 3 a.m. the thieves were at his house, tying up his guest and demanding cash. A businessman in a city of paupers, Shir admits "my guests have money, as do I." Shir's relatives fought back. They stirred into a one-family posse; the running gun battle lasting until dawn. The morning sun chased the robbers to their safe...
Currently the director of Mizmor Shir, the Jewish a capella group, Merlin said, “The real reward for learning is how it fits into my life and what I’m trying to build with...