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According to police, another shooting followed on June 6, when a male assailant approached an unidentified man seated in a parked car by the intersection of Putnam Avenue and Magee Street and fired several shots into the vehicle before fleeing. Police have not recovered a weapon or issued any warrants in connection with the shooting. Pasquarello said the motive behind this incident is still unknown but that investigators think it was also a targeted act. The victim survived and has been released from the hospital...
...Officers arrested Katia Antoine of Wilmington, Mass. at 220 Alewife Brook Pkwy. She was charged for assault and battery of a child with a dangerous weapon...
Where has the fine art of the insult gone? there was a time in Europe when the cutting gibe was a respected weapon in political discourse. Lady Astor, Winston Churchill's nemesis, once said to him: "If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee." Churchill didn't demand an apology or file a human-rights complaint. He just shot back: "And if I were your husband I would drink it." But these days we get the insult without the art, and so we respond with self-righteous outrage. Last week, when a German Member...
...there's plainly an insurgency at work. U.S. forces in and around Baghdad are under constant attack, and when there are no American casualties those attacks often go unreported. While attacks have come in the form of sniper fire, roadside bombs and mines, ambushes and close-range gunfire, the weapon of choice among those seeking to kill American soldiers in Iraq appears increasingly to be the RPG-7 rocket launcher. The cheap, portable, recoilless Soviet-designed rocket launcher has long been a favorite of guerrilla armies everywhere, because it evens up the odds against more heavily armed and armored enemies...
...Ashcroft said it referred to terrorists and not to mainstream Muslims, but the point seemed lost on her. "Islam is the terrorist," Barbara asserted. "Muslims are the victim." The class ended in prayer. "We mourn the loss of life" in Iraq, someone said. Added Barbara: "We pray that the weapon of mass destruction, Islam, be torn down. Lord, we declare that your blood is enough to forgive every single Muslim. It is enough...