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...Mexican authorities fear that incidents like the shootout at Minatitlan may also signal the start of a new wave of violence along the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexican border. The U.S. believes organized smuggling rings are responsible for a dramatic increase in illegal traffic along the border--and in the unprecedented numbers of migrants dying in their attempts to get in. This year more than 250 migrants have perished along both sides of the border, including at least 100 this summer, when crossings are the most dangerous because of the desert heat. (In Arizona, 50 migrants died in July alone...
...lovely interlude with Charley and the spinster, where the cowboy has to recall gentlemanly codes of conduct (picking up clods of earth that his boots have left on her foyer carpet) and learn again how to make his heart soft for her while keeping it hard for the inevitable shootout in town...
...Sunday, said Hamid, a complete reading of the Koran in honor of the slain men will begin at the mosque in Owja. The last thing the Coalition Forces want is for the memory of these men and their final shootout to become a rallying cry for the resistance. No doubt, they're hoping it will now all be quietly laid to rest...
...stay away from the desert kingdom, citing intelligence reports of a terrorist attack in the final stages of preparation. Just last week, Saudi security officials uncovered a cell comprising some 19 al-Qaeda members allegedly planning attacks on the royal family (the suspects managed to elude capture after a shootout). Also last week, self-styled al-Qaeda operative Abu Mohammed al-Ablaj had emailed a message to a Saudi weekly newspaper warning that the movement was planning a major operation in the Gulf, "targeting the rear of the American army...
...Killed. Sam (Mosquito) Bockarie, 40, West African warlord, former hairdresser and champion disco dancer; in a shootout with Liberian soldiers; near the Ivory Coast-Liberia border. A native of Sierra Leone, Bockarie was one of the most feared guerrilla fighters to emerge from the overlapping civil uprisings in West Africa. In March, a U.N.-backed special court investigating atrocities in Sierra Leone indicted Bockarie for crimes against humanity. In a 1999 interview with a wire service, he admitted, "I cannot tell how many people I have killed...