"Has any Islamic state in history ever tried that?" Zawahiri also counselled against cutting off the heads of captives; a bullet would suffice, without the damaging publicity.
At the wheel was Nuwan, a young, solidly built Sinhalese whose slight mohawk gave his head the appearance of a bullet.
Twenty-one years old, diminutive, and clean-shaven, with a line of pale scalp on the side of his head where a bullet had grazed him, he introduced himself as Vietnam Kobanî.
In the side of his head was a bullet hole.
An hour and a half earlier in San Antonio, a man was grazed in the back of his head with a bullet after a fight with two men.
Rich Meyer, who manages the Michelangelo pizzeria across Route 111 from the shopping center and lives next door, wondered why the police have not linked a fifth find, of a head with a bullet wound found in January, to the Manorville cases.
Then it was the killing of thirteen year old Kevin Miller in Hollis, an innocent, young man walking home from school who was shot in the back of the head from a bullet that was never meant for him... a passerby in someone else's gunfight, however the someone else happened also to be young, 16.
When he climbed down again, he was clutching the side of his head, a bullet in his brain.
For example, it said, as Mr. Nashiri sat in shackles, an interrogator racked a semiautomatic handgun next to his head, simulating the chambering of a bullet.
His face is set, and his head is a bullet.
