They met with little more compassion on the other side of the border, held overnight in a police room with only a table and chairs, still covered in Madina's blood, cold, hungry and desperate with grief.
Cecil Beaton, the official war photographer, records: "The following would be an interpretation of the barks, wheezes and grunts that turned my blood cold: 'Hey damn you, young fellow, what the hell are you up to with your monkey tricks?
Just last month, while I was walking alone near a park to collect a takeaway at 8pm, a drunk man unzipped his jeans and ran towards me with a shout of, "Oi, bitch, come here!" It turned my blood cold and instinctively made me run.
No, these 10 films probably won't turn your blood cold; instead, they'll warm your heart.
The hurt arm goes around me, the tiny spot of blood cold against my back.
Amazingly, Logan sounds like the most devoted member of McChyrstal's P.R. staff or even his family... Logan's cheap parting-shot that "Michael Hastings has never served his country the way McChrystal has" should leave one's blood cold.
