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...Palestinian commanders. The Palestinians tried to counter this assault by sending a swarm of civilians to the house of a militant commander who was the intended target of Israeli air strikes. Faced with the prospect of killing so many Palestinian civilians, the Israeli planes veered away. At one Israeli checkpoint, a Palestinian grandmother belted with explosives blew herself up and only lightly injured her intended victims, the Israeli sentries. In a video filmed earlier, the suicidal granny had claimed she had been driven to such a desperate act because Israelis had killed one of her sons and destroyed her house...
...Karrada neighborhood, where the research directorate is located, residents said the scale of the kidnapping suggested collusion - perhaps even participation - by real policemen. "How can you kidnap 100 people in the middle of the city and not be caught at a checkpoint?" said Raed Hussein, a shop assistant who works not far from the directorate. "The only way you can get away with this is if you have the support of the police." There are hundreds of police checkpoints in the Iraqi capital, and it is almost impossible to travel more than a mile without having to pass...
...that floats through the neighborhood, where posters of Sadr hang on many buildings. When U.S. patrols rumble into the area in armored vehicles, pigeons soar as lookouts signal their comrades as to the Americans' whereabouts. Gunfire often follows. Typically militia fighters will fire a volley of shots at a checkpoint manned by Iraqi security forces near a U.S. patrol. They may linger to fire a few more shots at U.S. troops arriving in the big green Stryker vehicles, but then they usually vanish. Like the killers who brought down the U.S. informant, the gunmen are seldom identified. But U.S. troops...
...Returning to the Green Zone on Thursday, this time entering through checkpoints along the 14th of July Bridge, I found the sergeant in charge of the crossing in no laughing mood as he stood, tense, in the blazing heat wearing full body armor, overseeing the movement of people across a bridge that has drawn sniper fire in recent weeks. He checked my badge and my passport and asked to see another form of identification. I gave him my Washington, D.C., drivers license, which he said he needed to keep at the checkpoint while I was inside. I was assured, however...
Absolutely. It almost takes that out of the equation. It puts us in the horrible position where in order to defend against cowardly deeds, you have to behave in what has always been seen as a cowardly way yourself. You're at some checkpoint, and you see a bunch of women in a vehicle, and then all of a sudden, some guy's there with a rifle shooting away, or he blows the whole vehicle up. So what do you do? What do you do? I was never one of those who were excited about going into Iraq...