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  • In another, a bullet-pocked Ford sits with its tires missing, telltale signs of a fierce firefight.

    Murder in Mexico Nicholas Casey 2011

  • Now it is a bullet-pocked, crumbling garrison shrouded in black smoke from mortar fire, and home to hundreds of Kalashnikov-wielding tribesmen who are battling it out in the streets with President Ali Abdullah Saleh's security forces in an effort to end his three decade-long rule.

    Yemen edges closer to civil war as tribal leader takes fight to Saleh 2011

  • Tullie House Museum And Art Gallery, Sat to 27 NovRCThese two films bearing the same title by Albanian artist Anri Sala and Sarajevo native Sejla Kameric recreate the imperiled journeys through Sarajevo's bullet-pocked streets between 1992 and 1996 with the citizens who lived there.

    This week's new exhibitions 2011

  • And in Lebanon, a man works on a wall of a bullet-pocked apartment building.

    Photos of the Day 2012

  • Wilson, Morris, and the rest of the shaken Republicans made their way out of the bullet-pocked house and into the street, the warm air acrid with the scent of burnt powder.

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • Wilson, Morris, and the rest of the shaken Republicans made their way out of the bullet-pocked house and into the street, the warm air acrid with the scent of burnt powder.

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • In the seat pocket in front of you on Safi, you will find an article on Kabul heroin addicts, photos of bullet-pocked tourist sites and ads for mine-resistant sport-utility vehicles.

    An Airline Magazine That Makes Travelers Want to Pull the Rip Cord 2010

  • I even took a turn up by the ruined Residency, and found my heart beating faster as I looked at the bullet-pocked walls, and marked the window where Broadfoot had tumbled to his death - and from there I turned and tried to find the spot where the Ghazis had set on me and the Burnes brothers, but I couldn't find it.

    The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

  • Then last week, after a new offensive by the Zetas, one of the two groups that have turned the town into a no-man ' s land, hundreds of residents packed what they could into their cars and fled, leaving eerily empty streets with burned out shells of cars and bullet-pocked walls.

    Northern Mexico Nicholas Casey 2010

  • He sat in the open door of a bullet-pocked Huey helicopter, which had crashed through the canopy of ficus trees and was now rusted and cobwebbed with vines and wispy air roots from the ficus.

    The Convict and Other Stories James Lee Burke 2010

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