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In Modern Warfare, the latest entry in the Call of Duty first-person shooter series, an infamous U.S. attack is fictionalized as Russian, rather than American, violence. In the Modern Warfare single-player campaign's eleventh mission, players engage Russian snipers along a wartorn highway in the fictional country of Urkistan. Strewn with burnt out vehicles and bomb craters, a rebel leader named Farah leads players in an attempt to capture a terrorist leader known as "The Wolf." While the country and characters are fictionalized, Farah's description of the setting directly references a real-world event.

MIAMI, Florida (Reuters) -- An Oklahoma woman drove around for days with her mother's decomposing body in the passenger seat of her car, Florida investigators said Thursday. Sheriff's deputies found the woman's body Tuesday in a car parked outside a Wal-Mart store in the northeast Florida city of Palm Coast. The medical examiner ruled the 65-year-old woman had died of natural causes at least five days earlier. The woman's daughter, in her mid-30s, was inside the 24-hour store, where she had been shopping since the night before. She was incoherent and unable to give a clear account of her journey...

Allied jets target Republican Guard convoysMar 27 2003 The Western Mail - The National Newspaper Of Wales IRAQI military in Baghdad and Basra were last night risking being wiped out in air attacks by leaving the confines of the cities to confront coalition troops.Saddam Hussein's elite Republican Guard left the capital in a column of 1,000 vehicles.And up to 120 Iraqi troop vehicles drove out of Basra in a southern direction.Harriers and Tornados flying out of Kuwait attacked the armoured convoys.An RAF source said, "A significant number of British aircraft are involved."It appeared the vehicles were heading towards British troops...

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British troops are in position around Basra Coalition warplanes are attacking a huge convoy of tanks and armoured personnel carriers which are heading south-east from Basra towards the al-Faw peninsula. BBC correspondent Clive Myrie is close to the area and says the battle has been raging for more than an hour. He says the movement of Iraqi armour may be a counter-attack to recapture ground lost over the last two or three days, or possibly a tactical retreat from Basra because of the possibility of an uprising in the north of the city. British radar spotted the column of between...

  "Now thou art come unto a feast of death."Shakespeare, 1 Henry VI 4.5.7 War is not about territories. War is not about oil. War is not even about winners and losers. In the end, all that can really be said is that war is about killing. It is about the taking of human life. John Donne wrote that "No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main.... Any man’s death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankind…" If this is so, then we belong to...