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...unit. "Eyal is lying in there burning!" he shouted to the medics. "There are a lot of others you need to rescue." But nine men caught in the initial ambush died, as did Yoel and three others of their would-be rescuers. A few hours later, a Golani Brigade soldier was shot on the edge of the camp. With 14 dead, Day 7 became the Israeli army's worst day of combat casualties since the Lebanon war ended...
...Overt hostilities between North and South were supposed to stop with the 1953 armistice. They didn't, says Lim, who was sent across the dmz in 1965. His orders: blow up a camp housing 162 soldiers. Lim, who asked that his real name not be used, carried the bomb switches; his three men carried five-kilo bombs. They crawled to the perimeter of the camp, knocked out the guards by spraying them with gas from plastic containers, then scrambled out moments before the camp exploded. "I was a soldier working for the South Korean army," Lim says. "I thought this...
...unsung hero of the 1990s economic boom was the continuous business traveler, the frenzied foot soldier of the New Economy. Hopping from Dallas to Dulles, he lived a never-ending parade of airline lounges, airport bars and expense-account meals in strange cities. But for those who missed the Internet boom and its resplendent wonders, this one-part exciting and two-parts vertiginous lifestyle has been conveniently encapsulated at the Blue Room. This bustling Kendall Square restaurant is just two T stops away, but with an unremarkable décor and unplaceable cuisine, it seems a faceless world unto itself...
...school is funded by a charity that is linked to the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, a group responsible for innumerable attacks on Israeli soldiers and civilians. In the lobby, the custodian keeps a Karl Gustav machine gun in his desk drawer. Two of the girls in Qawasmeh's school have been injured in the fighting that broke out 1 1/2 years ago. Shireen Rajabi, 8, has a scar above her right eyebrow; she says a soldier hit her with his rifle butt at a checkpoint...
Last month Shamas' husband, a Brooklyn native of Lebanese descent, failed to pick up on a soldier's signals as he crossed the checkpoint and suddenly found the red laser dot of the Israeli's rifle sight dancing on his face. He was saved by his American-accented English and the U.S. passport he slowly pulled out of his pocket. "My God, it hit me," Shamas says. "Nobody is safe. Think of the ease with which that soldier could have decided to kill." Every day her daughter Diala, 17, crosses the checkpoint to go to school. "Not every...