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...nighttime you pass cities briefly and only once in a while, because those rides are just getting from one place to another. No one talks on the night buses. As the buses got further south and west the drivers make their announcements in Spanish. “Cinco minutos aquí.” Sometimes we would pass a truck on a country road with the truck coming in our direction and the bus would vibrate a little with the shadow of impact...
...which each country's forces operate according to their own particular caveats - many of which include no fighting - shocked Gates during his visit a year and a half ago. "He heard that we had a soldier who was shot and was in Spain's AOR [area of responsibility]. The Spanish troops had to call back to Madrid to seek permission to medevac him," a Pentagon aide told me. "The soldier lived. But Gates was furious." He also heard that while wounded soldiers in Iraq were guaranteed a medevac within the "golden hour," in Afghanistan they could wait as long...
...Spanish politician Gaspar Llamazares looks familiar, that's probably because his image recently appeared on the FBI's list of most-wanted terrorists--next to Osama bin Laden's name. In an effort to depict how the elusive al-Qaeda leader, now 52, may have aged over the past decade, an FBI forensic artist took a photo of Llamazares from the Internet and merged it with bin Laden's features. The bureau has apologized to Llamazares and removed the picture from its website...
Ehrlich attempted to say “It’s not my fault” in Spanish but instead said “I don’t understand...
...season ends in June, and Ehrlich may stick around for some time to see Spain and Europe. As for a career in Spanish football, he doesn’t think...