Word: woundedness
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'This government won't fall because of this.' Xanana Gusmao, Prime Minister of East Timor, about a shoot-out that wounded the country's President, Jos? Ramos-Horta, and left rebel leader Alfredo Reinado dead
Iraqi insurgents wounded Gerald Cassidy in the deafening blast of a roadside bomb just outside Baghdad on Aug. 28, 2006. But it took more than a year for him to die from neglect by the Army that had sent him off to war. When Cassidy returned to the U.S. last...
Many Timorese were astonished by the news, for "the Major" - as Reinado was known locally - was considered a clever and cunning tactician who would rarely put himself in danger. In May 2006, half the Timorese army was dismissed following a strike protesting discrimination against soldiers from the west of the...
She has a wicked sense of humor, our president, even in a work as heavy as “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War.” In her first book published since taking the University’s helm, Drew G. Faust returns to...
Rebel forces, however, accused the French airlift of expatriates of providing cover for Chadian army attack helicopters operating out of the same base. By firing rockets at rebel formations, those helicopters allowed Déby loyalists to drive insurgent troops to the outskirts of N'Djamena on Monday. Regrouping outside...