Word: colonels
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...company saw 96% die within the first 15 minutes. Of the first 32 Sherman tanks that landed, supposedly equipped with devices to help them make it to shore, 27 sank in the churning seas, drowning their crews. "Two kinds of men are staying on this beach," shouted Colonel George Taylor to the men of his regiment on Omaha Beach. "The dead and those who are going to die. Get up! Move in! Goddammit! Move...
Given that threat, the images of Abu Ghraib could not have emerged at a worse time. When the stories of abuse broke on April 28, Lieut. Colonel Tim Ryan, commander of the so-called Thunderhorse Battalion--the 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment of the 1st Cavalry Division--had begun to piece together building projects in the area in and around Abu Ghraib, in western Baghdad. The construction would have employed several hundred local men and therefore was a key part, Ryan says, of his plan for defusing support for the insurgency in the Sunni-dominated area. Now he is opting...
...disappointed. Accompanied by some 7,000 defiant tribesmen, some waving guns, rebel leaders, including former Taliban commander Nek Mohammed, appeared wearing their sidearms. Eyewitnesses say that all the general got from a slyly grinning Mohammed was a rusty sword. "We never war-gamed this," says a chagrined colonel in Islamabad of the military's failure to pacify Waziristan...
...earth: an often suicidal force locked in a 20-year struggle to secure autonomy for Sri Lanka's Tamil minority. Today, the Tigers are fighting each other as rival factions clash north of the eastern city of Batticaloa. The violence follows the March split by the Tigers' eastern commander, Colonel Karuna Amman, who broke ranks from the northern leadership?a dangerous move in a group that demands total loyalty to its supreme commander, Vellupillai Prabhakaran. On April 9, Prabhakaran issued a death warrant for Karuna and sent 1,000 of his troops to hunt down the breakaway faction...
...cozy up to Al Gore ("Hello, Al. Or should I say 'Mr. President'?"). On the morning show, Public Enemy's Chuck D referred to Bush as a "weapon of mass dumbstruction." Nighttime co-host Janeane Garofalo dismissed the war on Iraq by saying, "Saddam Hussein is to 9/11 as Colonel Klink is to Nazi atrocities...