Word: colonels
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...lieutenant colonel named Bruce Antonia told Odierno about preparing to attack the Buhritz neighborhood a few nights earlier when he was approached by local Sunni inusurgents-members, they said, of the 1920 Revolutionary Brigades-who were streaming out of the neighborhood. "They said they'd been fighting al-Qaeda but had run out of ammunition and asked us to supply them. We told them, 'Show us where AQ is and we'll fight them.'" The insurgents did and the neighborhood was cleared...
...senior commander, Mohammed Dahlan - a sharp-suited favorite of the Israelis and the U.S. - slipped out of Gaza as soon as the fighting started. Soon afterwards, Hamas members cornered a top Dahlan commander, Jamal Abud a-Jediyan, near his home and pumped 45 bullets into him. One Fatah officer, Colonel Nasser Khaldi, contacted by a news agency, complained: "There is a weakness of our leaders. Hamas is just taking over our positions. There are no orders...
...party system. Our endless number of regional and so-called national parties only seek to share power and once their rule is assured, are rarely made accountable to their principles. As a result, India seems more a loose confederation of bickering, cynical tribes than a functioning political collective. Lieut. Colonel Onkar Chopra (ret.), Ferozepur, India...
...Pappas, who ran intelligence at Abu Ghraib, was declared "not combat fit" after he survived a devastating mortar attack on September 20, 2003 - just weeks before the notorious abuses began to unfold. The attack - which killed two U.S. soldiers and wounded others but left Pappas physically unharmed - caused the Colonel to repeatedly exhibit bizarre behavior, the book says, while alleging that his "deteriorating mental condition did not permit him to provide the vitally necessary supervision of his soldiers working in the prison...
...investigating officer at a Camp Pendleton, Calif., hearing that he did not investigate the alleged Marine killings of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha, a story broken by TIME, because he believed that the troops had engaged in lawful combat. During earlier testimony, a Marine who had interviewed Stone, Colonel John Ewers, lambasted the lawyer's failure to look into the killings but said those actions were not criminal. The investigating officer will now decide if Stone should face a full trial...