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...Mountain Division found themselves locked in a 12-hour battle against a few dozen al-Qaeda and Taliban guerrillas. It was the fiercest combat U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan have seen in more than 18 months and an extreme test of valor under fire. An American was killed by a sniper; quick thinking by U.S. soldiers averted many more deaths. "Most of us feel this strange mixture of sorrow and exhilaration," says Major Paul Wille. "It was the perfect fight...
...from Specialist Robert Heiber's arm. It hurts like fire, but Heiber mostly feels anger. He uses his Leatherman pliers to yank out the shrapnel and keeps on firing. When a medic tries to take Heiber back with Gilstrap to the firebase for treatment, Heiber refuses. He is a sniper and has spotted a curl of smoke from al-Qaeda mortar tubes above a rock gallery, some 600 yds. away...
...image of a dark, lifeless, abandoned space between blasted out buildings. Through Neven's personal history Sacco gives us the inside story of fighting against the Serbs during the siege. This job fell to loosely associated, legalized gangs headed by popular warlords. Trained in the Yugoslav army as a sniper, Neven joins a paramilitary unit made up of "distinguished sportsmen, all-in-all criminals, or a little bit of both," and commanded by Ismet Bajramovic, AKA Celo, a violent, handsome ex-convict with intense charisma...
...From one of the first scrimmages we had last year, she stood out to me as a sniper,” says junior forward Nicole Corriero. “A strong, powerful forward who could come down the ice and pick the corner...
PLEADED NOT GUILTY. JOHN MUHAMMAD, 42, accused sniper; of the murder of Dean Meyers, 53, an engineer shot with a high-powered weapon at a Sunoco station in Manassas, Va., last October; on the first day of his first trial in connection with the three-week shooting spree that left 10 people dead in the Washington area; in Virginia Beach, Va. Muhammad's alleged accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, 18, begins a separate trial next month...