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...Malay headman to jail or torch a Kenyan village in the privacy of one's own colony; it's quite another to do so in the full glare of TV lights. One unarmed Afghan--or Iraqi--killed by a scared G.I. can have greater political consequences than a truckload of humanitarian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing by Mogadishu Rules | 4/7/2003 | See Source »

...Malay headman to jail or torch a Kenyan village in the privacy of one's own colony; it's quite another to do so in the full glare of TV lights. One unarmed Afghan - or Iraqi - killed by a scared G.I. can have greater political consequences than a truckload of humanitarian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing by Mogadishu Rules | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

...pilot with a canvas helmet and large goggles over his eyes looking down at me. As the plane headed north toward the mountains, I saw Japan's insignia, the Rising Sun. "How dare they come over and attack our land and country?" I raged to myself. Then a truckload of Marines came over and yelled at me to go home. On the way I saw a couple of Zeros on fire, plunging into the hills over my town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dec. 7, 1941 | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

...inspection team ousted in 1998, the real dirt will ultimately be mined by comparing the new documents with the million pages on file at the U.N. and teasing out inconsistencies in the new inventory. The length of the declaration is no doubt intentional, Butler tells TIME. "Dumping a truckload of material is part of the process of obfuscation," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saddam is playing nice, but exposing Iraq's arms will take more than surprise palace visits | 12/16/2002 | See Source »

...Basri presented residents of the small town of Venelale with a proposition: give me your youngest children. I will feed them, I will educate them, and most importantly, I will protect them. At the time, Jose Pereira, a poor local farmer, awoke each morning wondering if that day the truckload of Indonesian soldiers would appear in their vengeful hunt for independence fighters and attack his family. He listened carefully to what the stranger offered. Hasan said he had government funding. He would take the children to a school in the town of Bacau, an hour's drive away, where they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Timor's Lost Boys | 12/15/2002 | See Source »

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