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When the bomb went off, police sargent Ayub Alous Jabbar felt the sting from the piece of shrapnel entering his left thigh almost before he heard the blast itself. "Glass was flying in all directions," he says, his body still shaking from the adrenaline charge, 15 minutes later. By the time he thought to duck, it was all over. A giant black cloud was rising from the site of the explosion, just 100 yards away, half a dozen cars were ablaze, and people around him were screaming at each other to run. "Everybody was shouting at the same time,? Jabbar...
...stumbled away from the scene, clutching at his thigh, he remembers thinking: "How can this happen here?" Within an hour, as the news of the latest terror attack spread through the Iraqi capital, all of Baghdad was asking the same question: how did a car bomb get into in the heart of the city's security establishment, the high-security compound of the Baghdad police headquarters...
...Walks. Drawings accompany the easy-to-understand text, and many moves use available props like waiting-area chairs, meal trays and barf bags (the last are wrung to release wrist tension). The stretches are effective, yet the book's attitude stays light (a benefit of the Mile High Thigh Tone is that it develops "sexy stewardess legs"). One quibble: we would prefer a spiral-bound version, given that there's not enough room at most airline seats to hold the book open while reading the directions...
Uday and Qusay Hussein hated each other. When they were boys, Uday would torture his younger brother, going so far as to stab him in the thigh and break his ribs and to try to blind him with a burning cigarette stub. Over the course of four decades they would become, apart from their father Saddam, the most feared men in Iraq--responsible for untold numbers of maimings, jailings and murders and, in the case of Uday, rapes as well. The brothers never outgrew their mutual contempt. Qusay loathed Uday's drunken rampages and reprobate lifestyle; Uday railed to friends...
...April 24, Lehe had heart surgery to insert a metal device through a catheter in his thigh and into the hole between his atria. The surgeons also inserted a camera in his throat to monitor their progress...