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Then Zubaydah and his companions pulled off a move that would have impressed any Hollywood stuntman. With a running start, they leaped off the cottage roof, sailed over the barbed-wire fencing and tumbled onto the neighboring villa's roof--a drop of 25 feet. They were immediately grabbed by four Pakistani cops waiting for them. Zubaydah was furious that fellow believers would act against him. "You're not Muslims!" he is said to have told the police disdainfully in English. "Of course we are," an officer replied. "Well, you're American Muslims," he sneered...
...Then Zubaydah and his companions pulled off a move that would have impressed any Hollywood stuntman. With a running start, they leaped off the cottage roof, sailed over the barbed-wire fencing and tumbled onto the neighboring villa's roof?a drop of 8 m. They were immediately grabbed by four Pakistani cops waiting for them. Zubaydah was furious that fellow believers would act against him. "You're not Muslims!" he is said to have told the police disdainfully in English. "Of course we are," an officer replied. "Well, you're American Muslims," he sneered...
...hotel in Salou or a boobytrapped toy that killed a woman and blinded her 10-month-old grandson. Interior Minister Mariano Rajoy blamed ETA's youth wing for this instance of kale barroka (street violence), while police connected those arrested to at least 12 political killings. UNITED STATES Mr. Stuntman, Meet Miss Liberty French paraglider Thierry Devaux dangled precariously 90 m above ground when his parachute caught the tip of the Statue of Liberty's torch, entailing a half-hour rescue operation to bring him down to earth. The daredevil stuntman botched an attempt to land on the torch after...
BASIC INSTINCT, THE SEQUEL: BEHIND THE SCENES WITH STUNTMAN PHIL...
British film stuntman Tim Lawrence was only 34 when he was diagnosed with the debilitating neurological condition Parkinson's disease six years ago. It meant a swift end not just to his parts in movies like Braveheart, Splitting Heirs and Frankenstein, but also to an active lifestyle that included acrobatics, martial arts and skydiving. With his body alternating between rigidity and uncontrollable spasms, almost the only physical recreation left for Lawrence was going out with friends to London clubs. Under the strobe lights his thrashing movements could be mistaken for enthusiastic dancing. So clubs became the one place he didn...