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...What's more, the U.S. is actually getting better at limiting limiting the number of civilian deaths, a constant on battlefields throughout history. In 2005, an average of one Iraqi civilian a day was being killed by U.S. troops in combat. That number is now down to one a week...
...preparation for such an attack, Chavez announced a plan last year to boost Venezuela's civilian reserves count from 50,000 to 2 million men and women, almost 10% of the population. Military officials say they must train ordinary citizens to employ tactics like those used against Americans in the Iraqi insurgency and the Vietnam war because the Armed Forces cannot match the U.S. military might on their...
...After a half an hour delay reported by journalists on the boats, the virgins were eventually transported to the beach, where community members planned to carry them clandestinely to Venezuelan troops dressed as civilians so they could fight enemy troops invading their communities. Meanwhile, civilian reservists exploded fake land mines aimed at enemy tanks speeding down a coastal highway. Soldiers representing the invaders sat perched atop the tanks and sprayed blanks from their machine guns towards bystanders on a nearby boardwalk...
...blast, Palestinians blamed the deaths on an Israeli shell, and Izzadine al-Qassam, the military wing of Hamas, the Palestinian Authority's ruling party, abandoned a 16-month cease-fire with Israel. In the ensuing series of reprisals, rockets fired into Israel by Palestinian militants injured one Israeli civilian, and an Israeli air strike killed 11 people, including two militants...
...right? The Israeli government is unlikely to reopen the probe or permit another team of independent investigators to examine the evidence. Defenders of the army's practice of shelling Palestinian targets in response to rocket attacks say responsibility for civilian deaths lies with Palestinians who refuse to prevent violence against Israel. But, as other Israelis point out, shelling a densely populated region with imprecise munitions cannot help putting civilians at risk. Huda Ghaliya now lives with her mother and a brother who survived the blast. "She has a masked face, no emotions," says Eyad Sarraj, founder of the Gaza Community...