Word: colonels
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...Colonel Kareem Hajem, police chief of Karbala, says investigators believe that Iraqi Salafists carried out the suicide blasts that killed six coalition soldiers and a dozen Iraqi policemen in the city last month. A senior military official says the U.S. is paying more attention to the role of Salafists because of their "long-standing relationship to terrorism in other locations." The official mentions Algeria's violent Salafist Group for Call and Combat...
...whether the jihadists can ever command the popular support required to become a sustainable guerrilla force. Military analysts say that while the jihadists' numbers are growing, the insurgency still doesn't constitute a significant threat to U.S. forces. "We're dealing with onesies and twosies," says retired Army Lieut. Colonel Ralph Peters, referring to the number of insurgents typically involved in each assault. "We're not dealing with waves of Iraqis coming over the walls of our compounds in mass attacks." Khaled, the leader of the jihadist cell outside Baghdad, acknowledges that U.S. forces have killed...
...world salute TIME's person of the Year?the American soldier! I am so glad that I have walked with heroes: the American soldiers during the Vietnam War. Colonel Chen-hua Chu Peitou, Taiwan...
...Saddam in the mid-1990s for his oldest son Uday. The portion of the palace not destroyed by U.S. missiles now functions as the 2nd Battalion's Tactical Operations Center. During the summer, the troops filled the swimming pool and built a sand volleyball court on the grounds. Lieut. Colonel William Rabena, the battalion's stout commanding officer, sleeps in an egg-shaped room dubbed the Love Shack, on a circular canopied...
Grimes, 26, a medic who had been traveling in the next humvee, jumped out and began applying a tourniquet to Michael's arm, as close to the wrist as she could, to stop the bleeding. Later, a colonel would explain to Michael that the shrapnel range of an unimpeded grenade is about 15 feet in all directions. In this case, the combination of Michael's hand and the bench below it contained enough of the blast to save the life of everyone in the back of the truck. You can read the full details of the incident in "Portrait...