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...offering them: surrender or obliteration. Instead, those Iraqis still fighting have, according to an American officer, "turned matador," changing into civilian clothes, sidestepping the full might of advancing forces only to reappear later to inflict cut after cut in the Americans' flanks with guerrilla strikes on convoys or suicide bomb attacks. In this atmosphere every civilian is suspect, and the longer the conflict lasts and the more innocents that are sacrificed, the less welcome the Americans may be. The recent suicide bombing, in which four 3rd Infantrymen were killed, swiftly followed by the 3rd Infantry Division's killing of seven...
...minutes walking distance from Harvard’s athletic facilities. Both played baseball together for BB&N, winning Independent School League championships in 2001 and 2002. And both will be playing the infield for this year’s Harvard baseball squad. “If you hit a bomb on our field, it can land in BB&N, where Zak and Josh played,” Walsh says. “It’s important for us at Harvard to get the kids who are in our own backyard. I can’t take credit for digging...
...calling attention to what he called Iraq's heroic resistance. He was inadvertently acknowledging that the defense of his regime had been put into the hands of a grizzled old peasant armed with a hunting rifle. So much for uniting the Arabs, for developing the first Arab A-bomb, for "burning half of Israel," for winning the Mother of All Battles, for all the grand promises that Saddam made and could never keep...
...have established checkpoints throughout the city in addition to bridges and tunnels. We are providing additional protection to subways and ferries, adding bomb sniffing dogs, radiation sensors and the National Guard to subway cars and platforms. Radiation sensors will also be deployed city wide at street level. The financial district is under strengthened 24-hour protection. Our high visibility deployments will include a stepped-up presence of heavily armed Hercules teams as well as Cobra teams. These are specially trained teams in chemical, biological and radiological events. These and other HAZMAT teams will be in place citywide. We are assigning...
...they lost at most half their fighters, so I expect they will be back sooner or later). I spent a week trying to get into the head of this dour, brutal and often suicidal group of fighters. I did not succeed, although I did spend time looking over their bomb paraphernalia, was given my very own bomb timer, and wandered through a particularly sinister detention center...