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...target of opportunity. The National Museum was stripped of tens of thousands of artifacts from the cradle of civilization. Hospitals, colleges, markets, deserted air-conditioning factories were overrun by frantic thieves who cleaned them bare and then set them on fire. By night, there were more plumes of black smoke rising over Baghdad than at any time during the war. "We asked the Americans to stop this," said Mohammed, a former civil servant, "but they say they have no orders to do so. Saddam was a bad man, but he was a strong one. The Americans have no respect from...
...samba in McCoy's head is overtaken by a different beat--the whump of an artillery round. Suddenly, the courtyard where the infantrymen have assembled to make the charge across the bridge is black with raining oil and shrapnel and smoke. Marines are shouting, hitting the ground, running for cover. The round has slammed into an amphibious assault vehicle just five feet away from me, landing between the gunner's turret and the driver's hatch. Marines pull injured buddies away from the smoking wreck. Blood mixes with oil on the vehicle's metal ramp. They cover bodies...
...tense silence falls over the room. Three hundred people sit motionless, eyes down, concentrating on the cards in front of them. Their felt-tipped pens hover over the numbers, ink cobras ready to strike. The air is thick with anticipation, or at least cigarette smoke. Then the man up onstage begins his ritual call: "One and two, 12. All the sixes, 66 ?" Suddenly, the place is alive with movement - hands zipping back and forth, dabbing at the cards with sniper-like precision. Everyone racing to be the first to fill a row, two rows or a full house. Racing...
...officer was sent to Lamont Library on a report of smoke. The officer determined the cause to be a piece of paper that was on fire. Cambridge Fire Department officials responded and extinguished the fire...
...time I got to the wall, the two mounds were erupting like a pair of small volcanoes, with big bangs that produced mini-mushroom clouds of white and gray smoke. Shrapnel fell on the road and slammed against the wall. Somewhere behind me, I heard glass shatter. After one particularly loud blast, I heard a woman scream in fear from inside one of the houses along the alleyway...