Word: ambusher
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...hour. It was followed by a bizarre tug-of-war in which the Palestinians tried to drag three Israeli bodies out of the area. They were stopped by an Israeli rescue force. One of the rescuers, Lieut. Eyal Yoel, and another soldier rushed into a house overlooking the ambush to provide covering fire. But as Yoel entered a room, he hit a trip wire. The explosion knocked him unconscious and set him afire. He died before his comrades could reach him. When the shooting finally stopped, 13 Israelis lay dead, including four members of a rescue squad. Ten Palestinians were...
...night before the ambush, soldiers from the 5th Brigade had gathered in a house inside the camp to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day. The 28-year-old head of one company, Lieut. Dror Bar, had spoken about the symbolism of the moment. "In Europe, Jews couldn't fight back," he had said. "Today we're being attacked, but we can fight back." The soldiers had lighted candles and read a Psalm. During the next morning's ambush, Dror Bar was killed...
CHECHNYA Not Over Yet At least 17 members of the pro-Moscow Chechen police were killed in an ambush in central Grozny. On the previous day six Russian soldiers died and 11 were injured in a mine attack, reportedly in retaliation for Russian mortar strikes on the southern village of Gorgachi, which killed two children and a pregnant woman. Two hours after the Grozny explosion, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared in his State of the Union address that the "military stage" of the conflict in the rebel republic was over...
...Ashley Wills, U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka, suspects Prabhakaran may find it impossible to leave behind his days as a guerrilla despot, always on the run, always planning the next military ambush or presiding over yet another farewell dinner for a cadre being sent off on a suicide bombing mission, one of Prabhakaran's signature rituals. "There's nothing I'd like more than for him to prove me wrong," says Wills, "but I have my doubts." Prabhakaran's supporters, however, have none. Vasantha, 21, says: "Our leader knows best. We will agree to whatever he decides." Even if that...
...probably stood back approvingly. The government in New Delhi, led by Atal Behari Vajpayee and his staunchly pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), didn't send in the army to cool things down for several hours. By the weekend, more than 300 people had been murdered following the Godhra ambush - most of them Muslims...