The battered and disfigured body of the 28-year-old Cambridge PhD student, who was pursuing sensitive research in Egypt, had been found in a roadside ditch between Cairo and Alexandria seven weeks earlier.
In the deadliest of those attacks, a roadside bomb between the southern cities of Nasiriya and Basra struck a bus full of Iraqi civilians, killing at least 16 and wounding 22, Iraqi police officials said.
"The book is very cinematic in some ways," Mr. Haythe said, pointing to a few scenes, like a roadside quarrel between Frank and April, that practically contain their own stage directions.
The incident involving Manziel and his girlfriend, Colleen Crowley, transpired on Oct. 12 when police responded to a roadside dispute between the two.
As one example, Gray, Mora and the others described how a roadside bomb, planted between checkpoints manned by the Iraqi Army and the police, had killed an American soldier.
There are definitely some British S.A.S. types around: a number of sightings, including one by a colleague who bumped into some yesterday at a roadside pit stop between Benghazi and Adjabiya.
In the northern part of the West Bank, six Palestinians allied with Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian Authority chairman, were blown apart in an explosion at a roadside tin shack between Nablus and Jenin.
Think of the difference between a roadside store and a shopping center.
LO: I would describe my music--or at least my romantic version of it--as a roadside motel love affair between old school outlaws and country crooners.
The site is also at ∼60 m from the centre of the motorway and so sits between a roadside and background site location.
