And the former commissioner, Walt Monegan, said he believes his refusal to fire Wooten led to his firing.
Elsewhere in Washington, the focus has been on the long-term viability of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who is under fire for his handling of the firing of eight U.S. attorneys.
How unlike the rapid firing off and counter-fire of email messages in which many of us find ourselves engaged nowadays as our predominant means of communicating with colleagues and friends, and even with complete strangers.
On Tuesday, Albania reported Serb troops crossed its border and seized the town of Kamenica after firing at border guards and setting fire to homes.
Israel retaliated by firing toward the source of the rocket fire, the IDF spokesman said.
The French soldiers shot at three vehicles approaching the airport after firing warning shots and themselves coming under fire, a statement said.
The investigation will focus on whether the Marines followed procedures to properly fire the weapon, whether there was a malfunction in the firing device or in the explosive mortar itself, the official said.
When the firing starts, only the most experienced and disciplined under fire will be able to respond.
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He said he was unsure whether the firing was from the Army or civilians but assumed the automatic fire could not have come from the Parachute Regiment because of the rules governing engagement in Northern Ireland at the time.
They returned fire with 50-caliber machine guns, they also returned fire with their M-16's -- Marines pointing out of the top firing, but not indiscriminantly, that is something the Marines point out -- only when they were fired upon and only when they could see the flashes, did they fire back.
On the grander dwellings a multi-storey tower, with lavish brickwork decoration and firing-slits, rises up to improve the household's field-of-fire.
The AK-47, for example, is widely available to private citizens around the U.S. as a semi-automatic version (firing one shot each time the trigger is pulled), but the military grade fully automatic (continuous fire while the trigger is depressed) model is illegal almost everywhere.
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