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...tanks came rumbling back with their wounded cargo, they came under fire. A missile blasted one of the Merkav 4s, killing a soldier and injuring a battalion commander. The second ran over a large explosive device planted by Hizballah that is identical to those used to such devastating effect against U.S. armored forces in Iraq. The force of the blast flipped over the 65-ton tank, killing the vehicle's commander and injuring three other crew. Earlier in the 12-day ground offensive, the Israelis had lost another tank to a hidden mine, killing four...
...Three weeks later, General Smith's forces in Texas surrendered; and on June 23, the Cherokee chief and Confederate general Stand Watie, aware of Smith's surrender, accepted the inevitable. He galloped into the tiny Indian Territory hamlet of Fort Towson-in today's Oklahoma-and surrendered his battalion of Cherokee, Seminole and Osage Indians to Union forces. The Confederacy had officially become a lost cause...
...door-to-door work necessary to secure Baghdad-and if Baghdad can't be secured, the war is surely lost. "For this to have any chance of success, the Army has to make some basic changes," Krepinevich says. "Our current goal is to support each Iraqi battalion with an 11-person team of U.S. advisers. The proper number is more like 30. Also, we need the very best people doing this. Right now, being an adviser to an Iraqi battalion doesn't help you get the next promotion, so we have a lot of B players doing the work...
...implies he is from Baghdad.) At the beginning, five groups were represented on the council, including Al Qaeda in Iraq. The number of groups has expanded to nine, says Abu Bara. The groups are all Islamic hardline fundamentalist fighters with names like Brigade of Abu Bakr the Salafi and Battalion of the Foreigners. At the time it was formed, Zarqawi named Abu Abdullah Rasheed al Baghdadi (who had until then been known as Abu Hamza al Baghdadi) to head the council, technically putting al Baghdadi in a rank above Zarqawi. This could mean that the new head of Al-Qaeda...
PART OF. . . BATTALION Kilo is one of five companies making up the 3rd Marine Battalion, which is led by a lieutenant colonel