Word: colonels
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...between U.S. forces and Shi'ite militiamen for control of the holy city. The Shi'ites' truculent leader, cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, vowed not to leave his bunker in the sect's sacred Imam Ali shrine "until the last drop of my blood has been spilled." The U.S. Marine colonel commanding American and Iraqi-government troops battling the stubborn gunmen of al-Sadr's Mahdi Army proclaimed his men were ready "to finish this fight that the Muqtada militia started." Iyad Allawi, the Prime Minister of Iraq's U.S.-backed interim government, declared there would be "no negotiation or truce...
...more terrorism-prone places like Israel and France, about whether U.S. officials should be forthcoming about how they came by that intelligence and what exactly they are doing about it. "To publish or not to publish--this is the dilemma of the intelligence officer every day, every minute," says Colonel Yossi Daskal, a retired head of the terrorism section of Israeli military intelligence...
...When I was walking to pick up my I.D. [after retiring from the United States Army], I ran into a colonel, who told me that no one is in charge out there,” Clark said. “And now I know that he was right...
FREE SAMPLE "Charlie Company doubled as Colonel Jones's cliff assault and small boat raiding squadron, and the SEALs had come to acquaint them with a new toy: the G4, a lightweight assault rifle that fired strips of caseless ceramic ammunition and programmable 30-mm grenades...
...JAILED. PHAM QUE DUONG, 73, former colonel in Vietnam's army; for sending e-mail messages in which he criticized government corruption and advocated democratic reforms; in Hanoi. Duong was sentenced to 19 months in prison but will be released at the end of July in consideration of time served since his arrest in December 2002. The verdict came a week after courts handed an identical sentence to fellow Internet dissident, literature Professor Tran Khue...