“There has been 50-caliber machine gun fire coming from the Israeli settlement. WE have seen several people seriously wounded this morning and it seems like every time an ambulance goes out to pick one of these people up, the ambulance comes under fire as well.”
“He's somebody you can rely on to get a good reading of the local situation -- and certainly not the sort of person you would expect to fall into a situation like this.”
“This was an event ... that really shook Iraq to its core because the late ayatollah was a very powerful figure among the Shiites in the post-Saddam Hussein era,”
“This was an event ... that really shook Iraq to its core because the late ayatollah was a very powerful figure among the Shiites in the post-Saddam Hussein era.”