Word: ambushed
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...runs through Fallujah. Shortly before the vehicles arrived in town, according to eyewitness accounts, a small group of men in masks detonated a small explosive device, clearing the streets and prompting shopkeepers to shutter their doors. The attack, locals later said, was hardly a surprise: insurgents reportedly set up ambush points around the city, waiting to assault any foreigners who might venture in. As the Blackwater vehicles made their way down the divided road, according to reports, at least three men cut the convoy off and opened fire with assault rifles. An eyewitness says the assailants threw two grenades...
...reasons for their decision to drive through such a hostile neighborhood remain murky. Sources familiar with Blackwater's operations say an investigation will have to determine whether the contractors, one of whom had arrived in Iraq only two weeks earlier, received sufficient training in avoiding and responding to ambushes. Standard operating procedure for security teams like Blackwater's, according to a former private military-company operator with knowledge of Blackwater's operational tactics, is never to stop the car in a potentially hostile area and "not to aid the other when one vehicle is hit in an ambush. They...
...Killing Continues KOSOVO Two U.N. peacekeepers died in an ambush as the fallout continued from the worst wave of violence to sweep Kosovo since the 1999 war. NATO troops and international police arrested almost 200 suspects in the previous week's riots, in which ethnic Albanian mobs targeted the Serbian minority, leaving 28 dead. U.N. agencies estimate that almost 4,000 Serbs were displaced, 366 homes destroyed, and 41 churches burned...
Rassmann told his story all over Iowa in the final days: about how Kerry's boat ran into a Viet Cong ambush and hit a mine, knocking Rassmann out of the vessel. Wounded in the blast, Kerry ordered the boat to race out of the cross fire, not knowing Rassmann was overboard. Two hundred yards downriver, when he discovered that the Green Beret was missing, Kerry turned the boat around and raced back to find Rassmann, still in the water, dodging bullets. His arm bleeding, Kerry reached down from the bow of the boat and pulled him in. "John didn...
...were superstitious or trying to change the subject. People bought Saddam golf balls, Saddam pinatas, voodoo dolls, to satisfy the need to hit back and not feel helpless every time he taunted his hunters with a new videotape to rally his followers, every time we heard of a new ambush conducted in his name...