Many of those killed were shot with live ammunition to the chest, head and neck, though the interior ministry maintains its forces fired only tear gas.
During that deployment to Iraq, many Marines I knew, guys in their late teens or early twenties, would behave as they thought Marines at war were supposed to behave: you smoke Marlboro Reds, you crisscross bandoliers of machine-gun ammunition over your chest, you tuck an ace of spades into your helmet band.
Another man roared up on a motorcycle, an ammunition vest around his chest and a weapon over his shoulder.
But the door was opened by a soldier with bands of ammunition strung across his chest and a broad smile on his face.
LARKANA, Pakistan, Oct. 25— At the gate of the Bhutto family home here, a swarthy guard, almost as wide as he is tall, stands watch, magazines of ammunition strapped to his chest and an embroidered cap on his head.
Many wear ammunition belts around their chests.
Others kneeled on the ground with belts of ammunition draped over their chests and prostrated themselves in prayer.
At midnight, with clips of ammunition slung across their chests, they faced off against demonstrators, the air filled with the singing of students and the sound of gunfire.
The indelible image of BPP members defiantly armed with rifles, some with ammunition belts across their chests, on the steps of the California State Capitol in Sacramento, on a spring afternoon in 1967, is just as riveting and unbelievable nearly 50 years later.
The Brotherhood said the girl, Asmaa al-Beltagy, was shot in the back and the chest with live ammunition.
