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...against the U.S. occupation army are part of the regular routine. At the modest farmhouse of a fellow member of his network of insurgents one recent evening, Abu Ali--the nom de guerre he has chosen--welcomes seven fighters into a room lined with worn sofas. Despite the steady whoomp-whoomp of circling U.S. helicopters, the insurgents sit back, chain-smoking and chatting about weapons, tactics, the long lines to get gasoline, whose children are starting to crawl. A young man spreads a plastic sheet on the floor and lays out plates of roasted chicken, rice, bean soup and boiled...
...before 5 a.m. Sporadic machine-gun fire has been heard throughout the night, and in the early hours of the morning, a hilltop observation post tells the team of U.S. special forces that there is suspicious movement south of the perimeter. Then comes small-arms fire, followed by the whoomp of an incoming rocket-propelled grenade. Tracers show a stream of outgoing rounds in reply. Afghan soldiers fighting with the Americans send their own RPGs into the night. The local Afghan commander, a short, stern man called Ismael, says they were plundered from a store of Taliban weapons...
...best line of the movie actually came from the audience. During the climactic scene of the movie when the police force rebels against the feds, the audience in the Loews Cheri started chanting, "Whoomp there...
...that scene, and particularly that whoomp-in NBC's upcoming made-for-TV movie High Ice-took six weeks and more real-life dash and daring than will likely be visible on the 19-in. screen...
Despite the danger to all involved, there were no major injuries. Relieved, Jones relaxed by shooting a nude scene between two of the actors. American viewers will not see that sequence, but he figures it will help attract theater audiences in Europe, where audiences apparently think whoomp! means something other than an exploding helicopter...