Word: ambusher
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...strategy." Zú?iga insists that the 68-year-old leftist - serving a life sentence in a Lima prison specially built for him - is still the motivating force for insurgents who have carried out more than 400 armed actions in the past two years. Most, like an ambush last July that killed five Peruvian army soldiers and two guides, have taken place in the central highland jungles, where Shining Path now taxes the lucrative coca-leaf shipments for cocaine traffickers. The revival of Sendero Luminoso, as Shining Path is known in Spanish, is a stinging sign of Peru...
...bomb blasted their convoy, and another perished west of the city when his unit was hit. Three days later a G.I. lost his life to an RPG, and two others were killed in Baghdad's turbulent Sadr City when a false cry for help lured their squad into an ambush. Over the next four days, three G.I.s died in separate combat incidents. On Friday three U.S. soldiers and 10 Iraqis died in a fire fight at the Karbala headquarters of a Shi'ite cleric, and another American fell in Baghdad...
...Karbala last Friday, when they clashed with religious groups. And they are alienating poor farmers like Abdel Fattah Naef, who once maintained lush orchards in a town 60 miles north of Baghdad. Soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division bulldozed his farmland last month following a series of ambush attacks on American convoys traveling past it. "If nine people in this area hated the Americans before this," says Naef, "now there...
...ranges from house makeovers on “Trading Spaces,” complete transformations on “Extreme Makeover” and everything from “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,” “Nip/Tuck” and “Ambush Makeover” in between. Allure magazine beauty experts suspect that “LiftTime, the Plastic Surgery Channel” will not be far behind...
...staffed by Chechens. But he never lets his chopper land at the planned destination. "I always order the pilot to land some two or three hundred meters away and open fire at our supposed landing site," he says. "Then we find dead rebels who have been waiting to ambush us there...