Word: armoring
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...Rice hopes to use forum to rally regional powers and push Iran onto the defensive, according to a State Department official, by repeating U.S. charges that Iran is sending materials for armor-piercing road-side bombs to Shi'ite militias in Iraq. But Iraqi leaders are wary of being drawn into a U.S.-Iran conflict, and while they support calls for Iran to stop the flow of weapons into their country, they have also pressed the U.S. on the case of five Iranians arrested by the U.S. military in Erbil in January. Washington has thus far rebuffed calls for their...
...that the Kurdish region, unlike the rest of Iraq, is open for business. Passengers flying into Baghdad have to endure a corkscrew landing to avoid possible surface-to-air-missiles. But a trip to Erbil is so safe that I was the only passenger on my flight packing body armor. Upon arrival, my biggest problem was the $50 fare charged for a 10-minute cab ride by the drivers of Hello Taxi, and finding a reservation at one of the city's packed hotels...
...soon as U.S. troops from the air assault reached Qubah's ruddy streets, with insurgents letting machine guns loose from several buildings. One U.S. soldier took a burst of fire in the chest at virtually point-blank range that knocked him on his back. But his body armor saved him from serious injury, and a moment later he was up after emptying his own weapon into the gunmen while on his back...
...Oklahoma Baptists and one of Mohler's sharpest critics. "I wrestle with Al Mohler all the time; he is one of the key leaders of the fundamentalist takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention," Prescott said. "But I think this might be the first chink in any of these leaders' armor. At least it suggests that they are trying to reconcile science and scripture.... The first step is to realize science has something...
...your son. It's 2 o'clock in the afternoon here," he said. "We're all safe with our body armor. It's all good, Mom. Just wanted to say I'm safe and that I love you and, ah, I love you, and have a great...