Word: woundedness
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Not all old soldiers simply fade away. Janko Bobetko, 83 and ailing, had been keeping a low profile in Zagreb, intent on living out his days in the quiet comfort of the villa he shares with Magdalena, his wife of 57 years. That was before the International Criminal Tribunal for...
It would be a morning of surprises. As the Pakistanis crept up the stairwell to the fifth-floor apartment, a grenade exploded in their path. The agents retreated outside the building. When reinforcements arrived, a gunman appeared at a fifth-floor window and began shooting at the officers, who returned...
“Immediately after the attacks there was a sense that America had been deeply wounded and had a right to retaliate,” he says. “There wasn’t much thought about the limits and restraints within which we should retaliate.?...
Shortly after nightfall, a pair of Black Hawk helicopters extricated Maroyka and the other seriously wounded men. As midnight approached, three CH-47s returned to the valley's southern tip. Perez wearily climbed up the ramp, where he ran into Grippe. "Are you sure we've got everybody?" Grippe yelled...
In October, as the U.S. began its Afghan-bombing campaign, public opinion in Pakistan turned against America. Sana did too. At stoplights near the Lahore bazaar, she saw vendors hawking bin Laden shirts and posters. She watched protesters spill into the streets, and though she didn't buy the bin...