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...orders to border police commanders not to send their men into Nablus without his knowledge. Tibon strides to an observation point and trains his binoculars on the ambush site. He's ordered retaliation on the area from which the Palestinian shots originated. The thumping reports of a tank machine gun crash around the valley. "It's a punishment," he says. "Nobody's going to shoot at my soldiers and get away with it." If the surrounding houses are damaged, Tibon believes that Palestinian residents will press the gunmen not to attack from there again. Tibon says the message is getting...
...Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms inspectors are visiting Virginia's 2,200-plus gun dealers and pawnbrokers, searching records for sales of rifles that fire the .223-cal. bullets used to kill nine people and wound two others...
...commander, "because it's used for killing foxes, coyotes, rabbits and prairie dogs." Last week someone in the Washington area was using it, with chilling efficacy, to hunt people. After seven sniper-style killings, Montgomery County, Md., police and federal investigators linked five of the murders to the same gun, firing a lightweight .223 round...
...weapons. But the bullet offered clues. Because the police did not find casings at most of the crime scenes, they suspect that the killer fired from a vehicle. (The shells fly a long way, and the shooter would have had little time to retrieve them.) And since a long gun was used, there's a chance that witnesses may turn up. While some officers thought that the style and accuracy of the shootings suggested a marksman, Coulson says modern gun sights make "a shot of 100 meters or so" fairly simple. And the apparently random selection of victims, says former...
...village called Shakhshirale close to the Turkmenian border, hash farmers shot dead a man who walked all day to demand two buckets of water. And in Saifudden's village of Dalicharbolak, the men there admit that after 12 people died of malnutrition over the summer, some among them gunned down two cannabis growers who were hoarding water upstream. An hour's drive to the east of Dalicharbolak, a village headman says his is the only settlement out of 38 nearby that has potable water?in effect, a single half-meter-wide well must provide for 60,000 people. The headman...