Routine Evil
There was an awful inevitability to what happened to those two American soldiers.
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Gangland Slaying
Ahmed Fadhil Nazzal al-Khalayleh was a murderous Jordanian thug who might have died relatively unknown. But the sullen, quick tempered, semi-literate gangster, thought by some in his own hometown to be a dangerous half-wit, had "found religion" as the expression…
Confronting 'He Who Confronts'
If I may paraphrase the late Richard Pryor. That Saddam. He BAD.
Armor All
Pfc. Steven Tschiderer fell thunderously when a high power round from a Dragonoff sniper rifle hit him in the chest.
An Ugly Little Reality
The bomb attack on the Palestine Hotel, in Baghdad, last week was typical of the vast majority of terrorist bombings in Iraq. It was a military failure, but to some extent a propaganda success in that it got the attention…