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...Arabs will not leave willingly, we will make them leave by force." JAMAL ADNAN, a Fallujah taxi driver, on the foreign insurgents in Iraq who have made his hometown a battleground in their fight against U.S. troops...
...mother, ever the worrier, had not wanted me to go to Times Square for New Year’s Eve 2003, afraid as always that that would be the night terrorists would decide to turn 42nd St. into the latest battleground for jihad. Which of course meant that my then-girlfriend, Allison, and I would not only be headed to watch the ball drop, but we would try to make our way as far forward as possible. Despite arriving at our decision well past 11 p.m., with our Patrolmen’s Benevolence Association cards in hand, we coasted through...
...September 30. The Golf and Fox companies officially took command of Combat Outpost on September 17, five days after a seven-hour firefight had served as a reminder that Ramadi, the capital of al-Anbar province, remains a key battleground in the war to shape Iraq's future. Not quite a no-go zone like insurgent-controlled Fallujah, Ramadi instead is the scene of an ongoing contest for control - The Marines on one side, various insurgent groups on the other, the people of Ramadi in the middle. "There is fighting near houses in the neighborhoods, says one of them, Waleed...
...larger base nearby. Having returned from a raid about seven hours ago, Golf Company's 3rd Platoon now heads out again with several other units. Past the ambush site, the men dismount, charging into houses and up to the roofs to get a birds-eye view of the battleground. Amidst sporadic gunfire, company commander Capt. Jeffrey Kenney radios that satellite pictures show the insurgents have moved west, and he directs his troops that...
Iowa may have only seven electoral votes, but in a tight contest, it's an important battleground. (Al Gore won the state in 2000 by less than 1%.) So residents of Davenport were hardly fazed when PRESIDENT BUSH and JOHN KERRY showed up for rallies on the same day, just blocks apart. The crooks in town weren't fazed either. With the cops preoccupied, three banks were robbed...