Word: guns
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hard to know exactly what happened. Soldiers involved in the shoot-out say they could see little through the rain and gun smoke and thick forest. One Scout who took part in the assault says he glimpsed the hostages on hammocks. When the firing started, they dropped to the ground but were pulled to their feet by the kidnappers and "used as human shields," according to Teodosio, who debriefed the Scouts. The bandits returned the army's fire, but it isn't yet clear how the hostages were hit--whether they were caught in the cross fire or targeted...
With his impeccably pressed white shirts and wingtips, Spitzer would seem to be part of the Establishment, not its nemesis. But he has taken up crusades that are far removed from the usual concerns of a state attorney general, battling coal-burning power companies over acid rain, gun manufacturers over product liability, grocers for exploiting immigrant workers. Spitzer and the team of lawyers he recruited from the ranks of prestigious law firms and federal prosecutors' offices often work unorthodox legal strategies, dusting off little-used laws to help their cause. In the fight with Merrill, for example, New York relied...
...example of how every encounter, from simple visa checks to complicated special ops, is fraught with the potential for misunderstanding, confusions and, in military parlance, snafus. Take the raid on the village of Band Taimore, 80 kilometers west of Kandahar. On the night of May 24, helicopters raining machine-gun fire descended onto the village wheat fields. The mission was a success. U.S. forces killed Haji Bajet, 70, a supporter of Taliban leader Mullah Omar since 1994, who also had links with Akhter Mohammed Usmani, the probable heir to the still-fugitive Omar...
...hard to know exactly what happened. Soldiers involved in the shoot-out say they could see little through the rain and gun smoke and thick forest. One Scout who took part in the assault says he glimpsed the hostages on hammocks. When the firing started, they dropped to the ground but were pulled to their feet by the kidnappers and "used as human shields," according to Teodosio, who debriefed the Scouts. The bandits returned the army's fire, but it isn't yet clear how the hostages were hit ? whether they were caught in the cross fire or targeted...
...cumin. The dessert was gulab jamun, two deep-fried balls of milk dough soaked in syrup. I finished off my meal with lassi, a frothy, sweetened yogurt drink flavored with rose petals. As I got up to pay the bill, I noticed that my waiter had joined the gun-toting men at the center table. Naturally, I left...