Ghost Snipers on the Rampage

May 4, 2004

MOCHTAR Ode moved stealthily behind the ruins of a building. The whistling of bullets and the smell of smoke from burned-out structures filled the air over the town of Ambon. Ode, a 15-year-old boy, carried Rifaldi, 13, on his back. Rifaldi was dying, his back pierced by a bullet that had been fired from an unknown direction. Only the whizzing of the projectile had been heard for a fraction of a second. Afterward, the shooter disappeared b

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