The explosion killed an American colonel and wounded 16 others.

Twenty-one days later, he was released, and then only after the intervention of an American colonel.

He then left the hotel grounds, asking the guard to tell the American colonel to wait for him.

The American colonels come here, and always they leave crying.

"There is no war here," an American colonel told me a couple of days before in frustration and disgust.

"We've got an entire command dedicated solely to keeping track of everyone," said an American colonel involved in military planning here.

A moment later he realized it was the American colonel who had hauled him upright.

The American colonel shook his head, and even that appeared to hurt him.

Look, I had an American colonel come to my office the other day.

Once, an American colonel made a visit to the institute, and saw a double-flower petunia.