An Olympics in the Shadow of a War Zone - NYTimes.com
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BAKSAN, Russia — On Friday, exactly a week before the Olympics were set to open just 180 miles away, Russia’s security forces appeared on Makhov Street at 8:30 a.m. and cordoned off the area around a brick and stone house. One of the men inside called his father, who said it was the first he had heard from his son in 10 months.
“He said, ‘Papa, we’re surrounded,’ ” the father said. “ ’I know they’re going to kill us.’ Then he said farewell.”