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...himself even further when he uses bombastic language and complicated syntax to threaten America. If only he would speak in cooler terms we might be willing to overlook his calls for our country’s destruction. He could threaten to “whack” any U.S. soldier who invades Iraq, or he could drop the F-bomb a couple of times (in translation, of course). Better yet, let Saddam use a peremptory “fuhgeddaboudit” to explain Iraq’s plans to comply with UN resolutions. These relatively minor changes to his diction...
...Katz Antiques on Royal Street concentrates on antique and estate jewelry, according to its president, David Gibson. His offerings range from a pair of "retromodern" American 1940s earrings for $400 to an 1870 French emerald, diamond and gold bracelet for $125,000. Military-history buffs looking for antique toy soldiers can stop into David Dugas' shop, Le Petit Soldier, also located on Royal Street. There you can shell out anywhere from $20 for a 1930s, 3 1/2-in. papier-mache soldier to $4,500 for a 1930s windup German gunboat...
...Akbar is an urbane, educated and thoughtful military man who is currently teaching himself English. A Soviet-educated professional soldier, he had been one of many who left the communist regime during the Soviet occupation to join the resistance in the Panjshir Valley led by the charismatic Ahmad Shah Massoud. He fought in the Northern Alliance against the Taliban and was on the frontlines during last year's U.S.-led bombing campaign. In the new order of president Hamid Karzai, Akbar is a man on the rise. Though he owes his position to the powerful defense minister, Mohammed Qasim Fahim...
...Around Kabul over the 72 hours leading to Saturday night's bombing, a 107mm rocket overshot one of the largest ISAF installations in the city and a search located twelve more that had misfired; a U.S. soldier was shot by a sniper; and in Gardez, two hours to the south, a video store was bombed and a rocket fired at U.S. special forces. These rocket attacks have become increasingly common, launched by timers as basic as a punctured water bucket fixed to drain at a measured speed and complete an electrical circuit, or as sophisticated as electrical boards rigged...
...tanks and more than 3.5-m concrete barriers. On Nov. 20, 2000, the Cohen children boarded their bus to the nearest school, in a settlement two miles away. The bus had barely left the compound when Cohen heard a thunderous boom. He rushed to the scene. By the time soldiers allowed him through, an ambulance had taken away three of his children. Inside the bus, Cohen saw the corpses of two adults. With that image in his mind, he drove fast to find his children at the hospital in Beersheba. Orit and Yisrael each lost one limb; Tehila...