Word: ambushed
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...They might have thought I was lying in ambush for them,” he said, “I don’t blame them...
...week after the ambush, Maupin appeared in a videotape surrounded by masked men. In the summer of 2004, an al-Jazeera broadcast purportedly showed his execution, but Pentagon officials said they couldn't be sure it was authentic. So his family - and the Maupins' hometown of Batavia, just east of Cincinnati - has kept a vigil for Matt ever since. A Pentagon official confirmed that Maupin's remains had been found last week, and that DNA testing confirmed his identity...
...ambush the committee," objected South Carolina Democrat Fritz Hollings at the hearing, accusing McCain of trying to squeeze through the amendment "in the dark of night." Hollings was also upset that McCain's proposal would upend a rulemaking process...
UPGRADES The Pentagon replaced 18,000 humvees with mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles (MRAPs) in 2003. They're superior--but not cheap...
...nearly three weeks in the autumn of 2005. But police and the government were troubled by the unprecedented degree of organization and communication by riot leaders, who apparently aimed to inflict as much damage as possible on police forces. Not only did the Villiers-le-Bel insurgents use strategic ambush points to stockpile and unleash stones, bottles and Molotov cocktails on security forces, they also repeatedly fired shotguns on riot cops, in what amounted to the most serious use of arms in nearly three decades of such periodic violence. The result was over 100 police officers injured in the mayhem...