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Fallujah hundred and fifty marines at war with an Iraqi sniper

At the end of the 150 U.S. Marines in March on Fallujah did not believe his eyes. In front were two three-story buildings along the highway number 10, on which was a sniper lurking enemy. First they ordered two air raids: the buildings are already crumbling shells rained down from 200 kg. Then they fired thirty-five times with 155 mm mortars, ten others with guns mounted on tanks and accompanied Abram shots with gusts around 30,000 of their automatic rifles. The buildings were a heap of smoking ruins, but the gunman continued to shoot.

The New York Times devoted a moment of the battle of Fallujah, the assault of U.S. troops to the stronghold of the Iraqi resistance, opening the first page.

The sniper, if indeed only one, has managed to keep at bay for almost 150 American soldiers a day. Another lesson, the newspaper said, the nature of the enemy that the Americans have faced in the hell of the streets surrounded by the ruins of Fallujah. Not all martyrs are ready to sacrifice themselves at the first opportunity between the guerrillas are also trained killers who know how to do their job with cold precision. And never die.

"It makes you think he is up there if they have to eat sandwiches - said Lt. Andy Eckert, who took part in the siege - and we went crazy trying to get him out." It's funny, but there is little to laugh about. No Highway 10 has claimed the lives of two soldiers of Company B of the first battalion of the Eighth Regiment of the Marine assault troops. Snipers them gunned down a mosque a mile further back, before it was razed.

Even with their deadly arsenals if the Americans should do with the tenacity of the insurgents, the tension of being under fire is skyrocketing, and when it seems to have reached the maximum rises again. The battle is fought with the nerves, in the twilight with eyes in the scope of his rifle to hunt for any suspicious movement.

On another occasion, the snipers Americans have heard something in a building. A cat is finally out of the closet began to wander in the neighborhood. "I can do fire, sir? A Marine would ask your supervisor." Absolutely not "felt answer.

At five in the afternoon of Wednesday, when the company thought he had finally secured the area, some soldiers have crossed the highway and began to scour the Detrich's three-storey building. At five and a half times the sniper started shooting again.

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and President 'Bush again and I lost my hundred dollars wasted a good end (in the ass to the pessimism of reason.) The last time I felt this way 'I was sitting on a couch watching the gold cup final of the additional samples between Barcelona and Sampdoria. But at least the punishment of Koeman and 'a second time, not forty-eight hours. I have to dig through the memories of women ruthless to reach this peak of disappointment, anger and surprise, the defeat of Kerry burns on the skin as the denial of rights, such as guilt, betrayal, broken promises like. A

things done I waited three hours in the cold in the middle, hiding under the jacket of the press pass to cry in peace, democratic as everyone else. Li, on the pavement of Quincy Market, the heart of the old Boston to give a final farewell to John Kerry, another senator of the city 'who tried to follow in the footsteps of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and failed. "At least four years ago - he says the old woman Dorothy, the same as just before I had screwed a cappuccino at Starbucks - we were sure that the Republicans had stolen the result. This time we really lost. I do not know anymore, 'Who are the Americans now. "

The stage of the festival set up in Copley Square now there's' more '. Even the headquarters in the luxurious Fairmont Plaza. Bruce Springsteen and' a distant comet. The news Kerry will speak 'at Faneuil Hall just spreads the message of Republican victory, after a night and a morning of uncertainty. But the auditorium of "democracy" in Boston, not' even sufficient to accommodate all the journalists to Following the campaign. In front of Faneuil Hall on Congress Street are now a few thousand of us assembled people. wait with folded hands to the bitter cold, with downcast eyes, the coming of the procession of the defeated. It seems to attend a funeral.

The parade begins to arrive. Before the off-road with John Kerry, his wife Teresa and daughters Vanessa and Alexandra. Then the car with John Edwards and his wife Elizabeth. Comes the symbol of Boston senator, Ted Kennedy. The first applause. "Do not give up, keep fighting for us in the Senate." Then again the wait. The cold weather and the tears of those who do not believe it's over ... Who would have thought that one day I could suffer so 'as to the wounds of a country not mine.



Act One Democratic Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts will not go on stage at Copley Square, the square of the festivities in Boston that night. But supporters Democrats are already waiting at the gates to hundreds. Brooches designer Kerry and Edwards mingled with the Red Sox caps, the local baseball team who last week won the American League. Democratic speakers take turns on stage and rock stars, John Bon Jovi to Sheryl Crow.

The tom-toms that could be a memorable night has been quick to circulate, the square that looked like a desert sprang to signs, banners, stalls, street improvised choruses. Prudence begins to slip from hand also to Democratic leaders, the party chairman Terry McAuliffe came to the Fairmont Plaza Hotel, getting into the press room with a smile from ear to ear: "Tonight - has -that America has turned the page, tonight John Kerry is elected president. "

Senator symbol of the city, Ted Kennedy, in an interview with CNN altrettando seemed optimistic:" It seems that America has decided to divide on a new path. "

The certainties to start celebrating are not there, but the euphoria is evident, including drinks and canapés, giving way laughter, smiles, pats on the back. In 2000 the same happened, then the party was ruined by the big disappointment: the exit polls turned out to be a sieve, then-Vice President Al Gore thought he won too.

Act Two

Take to the streets with hope, Democrats begin to evacuate from Copley Square with the disappointment on her face painted. While the show started outdoor-concert in the lobby of the Fairmont Plaza Hotel, the headquarters of the campaign, measure the temperature of the voltage. Only an hour ago, bursting with joy, cheers and laughter, now took over the power, in small groups of delegates and party insiders follow the update of the results on a dozen screens, intervinte the spinner on the American networks have reduced in number.

The first partial results tell a different reality from the dream that too many had hatched the entire afternoon, the Republican president George W. Bush has taken so far were all won four years ago and leads in both Florida and Ohio. The square does not see him, the trickle of results, but feels that something is going wrong and, under a light rain, many are beginning to evacuate.

"Zogby, Zogby - Eric exclaims, sitting in front of the TV with a hat full of pins and vest democratic Journal of the Boston Red Sox - Zogby predicted a Kerry victory and instead ...". The reference is to more cautious estimates of the pollster American analysts took as a bomb in mid-afternoon.

The only two in the last hour and a half timid applause greeted Kerry's victory in the State of New York and the abysmal advantage in Pennsylvania, fifty points. The data is representative and involves only a few counties but is good for the heart.

Act Three

The announcement of the victory of Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts in California is enough to explode into a roar endless Coplay Square, the plaza in Boston where they are collected in a pending music thousands of supporters of democracy. The night the presidential election, after great anticipation, has been generous with good surprises for the Democrats, with thousands crowding in the rain.

The California Democratic stronghold, is anything but an unexpected result but allows Kerry to narrow the gap in the balance of electoral votes. On the stage of Coplay Square, the background of the library of Boston (the oldest of America) has performed James Taylor. The event has as main stars John Bon Jovi and Sheryl Crow.

Act Fourth

After the "fall of Florida" - as it is called Bush's victory in the state - the hopes of the Democrats are now clinging to the outcome of the vote in Ohio. In the halls of the Fairmont Plaza Hotel democratic supporters are glued to television screens to hear comments and analysis of policy experts. A little 'as if the football team was losing the game of the year, everyone looks to pass the images of election results.

Outside, meanwhile, continues to rain. Jon Bon Jovi, a singers who have supported the Democratic campaign, began to sing for the supporters of Senator Kerry. Domina pero 'a sense of sadness in many are leaving Copley Square, the square where the festivities had been prepared for victory.

Kerry and 'still at his residence in Beacon Hill with his family and some friends.

Epilogue

On the U.S. presidential election the curtain falls: George W. Bush was reelected for a second term in the White House. The script was already written by the winning time: the Democratic candidate John Kerry in the White House threw in the towel shortly after 11 hours of Boston (the 17 in Italy). He has not made a statement his supporters or the press but directly with a phone call of congratulations to the President.

The disadvantage in the decisive state of Ohio, 136 thousand votes can not be retrieved with the counting of provisional votes, subject to those expressed for suspected irregularities in the registration on the electoral roll. The Democrats have resisted the evidence of the numbers a night, until the admission of defeat.

The president has got about three and a half million more than Kerry in preferences at the national level, winning the popular vote four years after losing it in the challenge against the former vice president Al Gore. By winning the state of Ohio over the edge of the 270 electoral votes needed to secure the victory in the presidency. The remaining two states, Iowa and New Mexico, but remained uncertain, however, are not able to overturn the result.

America is divided into two halves, one, that of Bush, slightly wider than the other. In his phone call to Bush, which lasted less than five minutes, Kerry took the opportunity to put pressure on the president to commit itself to heal the divisions of the country and offering his cooperation to work together. The phone down, game over for the Democrats after a campaign tense and no holds barred.

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Kerry will win 'as the Red Sox, I confirm my one hundred bags, we win

On the day of the great victory of the Boston Red Sox in the American League baseball not 'a surprise hit at a Kennedy, the family symbol of the city' of beans, say its the last of the great American dreams come true. Massachusetts Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy, younger brother of former President John Fitzgerald and the first and most 'strong supporter of the candidacy for the White House colleague John Kerry, he did, commenting on the victory of the team, after a wait which lasted about ninety' years. Kerry, on Tuesday, 'will do' as the Boston Red Sox, said: 'win' for all Americans, for all the dispossessed. "

The Sox (who seemed doomed in the semifinals and ended up ringed eight consecutive victories by winning the crucial challenge last night against St. Louis) are the favorite team of the Boston and Kerry Kennedy. Inevitable that the victory would turn into a real desire in the presidential elections. But in the words of Kennedy there is 'something more': the Red Sox (and Kerry) for him to become the hope of redemption for all the dispossessed of America, the "fruit of the labors, the battles and perseverance" of the Americans .

baseball metaphors that are in the U.S. and Italy are the football metaphors. But the victory of the Red Sox enter the myth and this is all the value for Kerry fans. The defeats of the team are (actually were) the salt of the more 'chat legend of Boston, the closest' principal of New England, and American sports. The last victory in the American League goes back to 1918 when the star of the team was Babe Ruth. Discovered by a minor league, Ruth is still the Pele 'of baseball, a legend to generations of fans. A Boston
Allow 'to win championships repeatedly until' the owner of the Sox, who needed money to produce a show on Broadway, he decided to sell it to rival New York Yankees. Boston did not win more 'and since then have given the fans
long, long series of disappointments of the team to the "curse of the child," Babe, of course. Since yesterday the curse there is no 'more'.

Kerry and 'presented in his first rally of the day in Toledo, Ohio, with a Red Sox cap stamped with the unmistakable "B" red, a smile and an ear to the other arms up as if he had just made an off-screen. "Once the radio someone told me that I was elected president
only when the Red Sox had won the championship - he joked Kerry - and now my loved ones are on track."

Kennedy, who repeated to more 'occasions such as this is "more than the election' of his life," said that "the Red Sox are the hopes and dreams not only of the people of Massachusetts but of all those who are difficulties '. When the Yankees were ahead three games to zero, you must be a person who believes in and' in trouble, you must believe in determination, perseverance, you must believe in hope to catch up. That's what gave the victory to the Red Sox
. Boston and 'took to the field and turned the story: "we can now do the same with our country."

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the wolf, literally. The team U.S. President George W. Bush prepares to give the final paw to undecided voters (sorry undecided) in the last days of the campaign. The latest Republican ad shows a pack of wolves that wander into a forest as a metaphor for America threatened by the terrorists of al Qaida. Bush will know 'protect the country, his Democratic challenger John Kerry will end' to weaken, leaving it a prey to wolves and their fears.



The spot, directed with attention to detail, looks more like 'the trailer for a thriller Hollywod that appeal to a constituency. According to Republican strategists (read Karl Rove, so a 'good to be able to elect Bobo Craxi al Quirinale, hands down) so would have an impact' on violent spectators who will be 'aired in the climax, in the last days of campaign Election not to leave the Democrats time to fight back.

Eleven days before the election the two candidates were equal in the polls. The president is trying to close the account with voters turning presidential in a referendum on national security, defending the fruits of its strategy against terrorism and saying that Kerry and 'drag-queen of a surfer who, incidentally, have one child. Kerry is betting everything on a lack of transparency in the White House at home and on issues of international politics itself as an alternative "smart" to Bush. Mica wants the moon, he wants to.

Kerry-style, that is 'too difficult to understand if you're a fool of the American Rockies, the Democrats have already' made their move, the new Republican spot shows an ostrich with its head in the sand does not look not to see (iraq and friends). Kerry meanwhile, flies in the sky like an eagle graceful ready to mail worms from Muslims. As if to say, speaking of umbrellas in the ass, the whole world 'country.