Word: ambushed
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...Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences, such an appendage would have been worse than useless. But it would have been more than adequate for propping the animal's head above the water so that it could survey its surroundings or for anchoring it underwater as it waited to ambush its prey. The advantage of being able to gulp air through lungs as well as gills would likewise have been immediate, given that the fishapod made its home in warm, shallow waters that were frequently rendered inhospitable by decaying vegetation...
...underpants and socks. They tied his hands behind his back, threw him to the ground and began kicking him unmercifully. The assault was interrupted by a barrage of N.P.F.L. gunfire nearby. The unit commander, a Ghanaian captain, said accusingly, "You see? You've brought us an ambush...
...nothing that would stop me from signing up.”Through ROTC and Pershing Rifles, Sarvis has studied the skills she would need in a combat zone. She knows how to knock out a bunker. She has studied how to clear a room, set up an ambush, and react to enemy contact. She has practiced these battle drills on paper and during field training exercises. The guns they used were real, but loaded with blanks. Sarvis can’t know what it would be like to perform these maneuvers in a combat situation, or how she would feel...
...strong multinational brigade in the country's volatile south. "We are not going to change things just because of one unusual incident," says Canadian Forces spokeswoman Captain Julie Roberge in Kandahar. A military investigation of the Shinkay attack has so far turned up no evidence of a planned ambush. All the same, the episode has rattled Canadian troops. Says Roberge: "As a soldier you expect gunfire...
...Meanwhile, shadowy Islamic groups ran clandestine camps that trained jihadi volunteers in guerrilla warfare and slipped them across the Line of Control?the unofficial border between the Pakistani and Indian areas of Kashmir?to ambush troops, Hindu civilians and politicians on the Indian side. President Pervez Musharraf, under pressure from the U.S. after 9/11, says he closed the camps in Azad Kashmir. But as recently as last August, according to sources in the militant groups, bands of guerrillas were still crossing over the Line of Control, dodging Indian land mines and patrols...