Word: ambusher
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...seems clear to others, including many American officers on the ground, that if the gangs of anti-U.S. fighters have not yet coalesced into a true insurgency, they are trying hard to become one. Attacks against coalition forces have grown bolder, better organized and broader based. A double ambush last week in Samarra "was the biggest, most sophisticated so far," says a senior intelligence official in Washington. (See "What Really Happened?") As a Pentagon official sees it: "They know they can't beat us militarily, but they think they might be able to defeat us politically." The guerrillas...
...were superstitious or trying to change the subject. People bought Saddam golf balls, Saddam pi?atas, 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...
...week began trying to arrange talks aimed at rebuilding a coalition of unionists and nationalists, but the D.U.P.'s hard-line stance didn't leave much room for optimism. - By Chris Thornton Toll Mounts IRAQ Seven members of a Spanish intelligence team were killed and one wounded in an ambush on a highway south of Baghdad . The attack brought the number of Spaniards killed during the conflict...
TIME: You said they hadn't trained you for an ambush...
...Yeah, well, I don't really know how you could train someone for an ambush. I guess it was just more, Defend yourself, get out of there alive...