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...have the foot soldier, but we do not have Gaddafi." ROSEMARY WOLF, whose stepdaughter died in the Lockerbie plane crash, after this week's conviction of a Libyan defendant...
...crack down, those at the top, the brains running the muscle, are never touched. Take a man like Samnang. A 45-year-old arms trader, his daytime job is as a border guard on the Thai side of the border with Cambodia. "I am an ex-Khmer Rouge soldier," he says, smiling easily. We are talking outside his office at the bustling gateway, and Samnang is dressed for work - blue shirt and pants and a walkie-talkie. "Even when we were in power, I started selling weapons to make more money. You know how poor we were...
Militants making the return trip go through a reverse route, ending up at a Pakistani army base?sometimes with souvenirs. Abu Haibatullah, 32, was sent across the Line of Control in the mid '90s with a particular mission: to bring back an Indian soldier for interrogation. He managed to ambush and disarm a soldier, but when the Indian tried to snatch Haibatullah's gun, he killed him. He then decided to return home with the soldier's head. "Lots of people came to see the head," he recalls proudly. "Some were from the Pakistani army and they praised...
...began making hard-line comments about Arafat, perhaps letting his real ideas out of the closet. But his worst moment came when, addressing high-schoolers in Beersheva, he was confronted by Ilil Komey, 16, who told Sharon that her father had suffered mental disturbances ever since he was a soldier in the Lebanon war. "Ariel Sharon, I blame you for causing my father suffering for more than 16 years," she said. "I blame you for many things that caused suffering to many people in this country." Sharon's imagemakers stepped in: he stopped visiting high schools and canceled appearances before...
...from street cop to narcotics detective to lieutenant to captain and eventually to assistant precinct commander. Derwin passed on his sense of racial pride and civic duty to his kids. His son Michael, 17, says his father "understood, just like Malcolm X, that you're going to lose a soldier in a battle. He took that in, and he wasn't afraid. Yet he still pressed forward...