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...explosives-packed vehicles in advance at separate gas stations on Jhanda Chichi Road in Rawalpindi. As the convoy carrying Pakistani leader Pervez Musharraf approached, the suicide drivers sped into action. A guard stepped into the path of one vehicle, costing him his life and causing the assassin's van to crash into a car in the motorcade and instantly explode; within a minute, the other vehicle blew up just yards from Musharraf's armored Mercedes, shattering its windshield. In all, 16 people were killed, including the bombers, security guards and bystanders. The President was unhurt in the Christmas Day attack...
...prison terms of between five and 20 years. Prosecutors said the murder was masterminded by former Minister Alain Van der Biest, who committed suicide in 2002. Case Closed CZECH REPUBLIC Fifty-six years after his fatal fall from a window, police concluded that Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk's death in 1948 was murder, not suicide as was ruled initially. WMD Found? IRAQ Danish troops operating in the south announced they had discovered dozens of buried mortar rounds that initial tests showed could contain blister gas. Results of final tests on the shells, which had been buried for at least...
...existing highway would be of little use without branches connecting to suburban communities, and those branches would take yet more land and money. Even worse, the Pike delays that would be necessary for the monorail’s construction would be devastating—just ask commuters on the Van Wyck Expressway in Queens, who suffered for years during the construction of an “AirTrain” to John F. Kennedy International Airport. (Kennedy ’40 was a former Crimson Executive.) And hasn’t Amorello ever seen the cautionary episode...
...something of a miracle that Musharraf saw the New Year at all. On Christmas Day, a van and a car packed with explosives tried to ram Musharraf's motorcade from both ends as he returned to his home in the military cantonment of Rawalpindi from a meeting in the capital. According to investigators, a police officer stepped into the path of the white van, which hit one of the first cars in the motorcade and instantly exploded. Less than a minute later, about 40 kilos of explosives in a car detonated just meters away from the presidential limo, shattering...
...steely grit around the guys but cries on the phone to her father when she talks about what she has witnessed in Iraq. Sergeant Jose Cesar Aparicio, 31, a reservist, heads a psychological-operations team attached to the platoon. The leader of the Tomb Raiders, First Lieutenant Brady Van Engelen, 24, took over command two months ago and is still fighting for his soldiers' respect...