"We had been talking about car bombs, shootings, letter bombs," said Charles Jennings, the program's director.
There were suicide car bombings, shootings and other attacks when I went there last winter to interview M.N.L.A. leaders.
Fuckhead's stories are lousy with things gone or going wrong: car crashes, shootings, overdoses, burglaries, abortions.
The story proceeds to bring all of them together through an apparently random series of car accidents, shootings and hijackings.
There's plenty of bloody violence in the book -- car wrecks, shootings, poisonings -- and much of it has a peculiar weightlessness.
But its very inexpensiveness has slowed its entry into American emergency rooms, where it might save the lives of bleeding victims of car crashes, shootings and stabbings — up to 4,000 Americans a year, according to a recent study.
This spring, Kirkuk city has been rocked by car bombings, shootings and suicide attacks that have killed at least a dozen police officers, three Assyrian Christians, a high-ranking Arab police official and workers going to the oil fields.
Most comprehensive was the horror section, in whose narrow aisles I keenly remember begging my parents to let me check out a copy of "Faces of Death" — the notorious pre-Internet mondo anthology of both real and convincingly staged car accidents, shootings, and decapitations — the complete series of which took up an entire shelf at Video Magic.
Even with its gimmick of playing in real time -- each hourlong episode covers an hour of action, for 24 weeks -- the series feels like an extended popcorn movie, loaded with so many betrayals, car chases, shootings and hairpin plot twists that viewers blink at the risk of getting lost.
The group has killed 829 people since 1968, typically using car bombs or shootings.
