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...hamlet of Hajil, American helicopters overhead report white pickups, the preferred ride for the fedayeen, leaving town. A yellow-and-white taxi makes the mistake of pulling out in front of a tank, and the machine gunner opens up. Rounds explode across the car, and the driver is hit in the thigh and the back. He is treated and medevacked...
...WANT IT MORE THAN YOU DID BACK IN 1981 WITH RAGING BULL? You know, I never thought I'd get it then either. Particularly when I wasn't even nominated for Taxi Driver. And certainly when I didn't get it on Raging Bull. I just said, fine, I got to make the picture. And that's the rationale that has kept me going. With Goodfellas it was a little bit hard on my parents, I MUST SAY. That hurt a little bit. They were there. but I keep thinking, it's a good thing I didn't, because...
...media did not mention Bush's deadline, the people of Baghdad, with years of practice getting around government censorship, knew what was going on. Not that it mattered: Those who could flee have already. The rest wait. "Why should we listen to the news?" said Mohammad, a Baghdad taxi driver. "What change can we make to this equation?" Currency traders continued to handicap the war; the dollar shot up in the exchange market from 260 Iraqi dinars to 285 in the hours after Bush's ultimatum...
...Iraqi border guards. On March 1 Iraqi secret police posed as travelers and arrested the Iraqi border detail in a sting. Since then nothing has made it through. Trucks and aged Land Rovers that a week ago carried lucrative petrol and foodstuffs now make do with fare-paying passengers. Taxi drivers say the underpaid Iraqi soldiers are asking for "pocket money" so they can return to their homes before the war. It?s a war the Kurds of Duanzasiman hope comes soon, and with decisive result. "Tell the Americans not to betray us like they did before," says one angry...
...February 26, Ansar sent a suicide bomber behind PUK lines, killing two soldiers and a taxi driver outside of Halabja. The PUK's dialogue with Komal was designed to isolate and weaken Ansar from a potential ally...