Word: snipered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...initial setting for the film is the war zone of Belfast in 1974. English troops parole the streets with rifles on their hips; when a youth, stealing scrap metal from a roof, waves a stick around, these troops pronounce him a "sniper" and shoot at him. The young man flees, and is chased through the small alleys and homes of Belfast; meanwhile, its inhabitants beat the walls and pavement with trash can lids to raise an alarm. Soon a riot has been provoked, and English tanks and soldiers careen through the streets. The young man who started this uproar...
There was nothing unique about the Muslim sniper's bullet that seriously wounded a Serb or the U.N. soldiers' response, a radioed request to their base in Visoko for medical evacuation of the injured...
...artillery shells explode and sniper fire rains down on a ruined city, editors and reporters of a small newspaper called Oslobodzenje, or "Liberation," are risking their lives to produce a daily newspaper out of an atomic bomb shelter in war-torn Sarajevo...
...reporters, who constantly risk injury and even death, work seven days a week in shifts, with some starting at dawn and others at dusk. They avoid leaving the building, for fear of drawing Serbian sniper fire...
American troops back from Somalia say they weren't surprised by the physical hardships: poisonous snakes and malarial mosquitoes, wilting heat and foul water. What came as a shock was the sniper fire against bulldozer drivers trying to clear roads for food convoys. And the viciousness of the clan warfare they found themselves caught up in from the moment they arrived. And the sight of their comrades going home in coffins...