Word: combatative
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...evening that the Italians were shot, U.S. troops near the Iraqi city of Diwaniya killed a Bulgarian soldier, Gurdi Gurdev, whose patrol had stopped 150 m short of a U.S. checkpoint without realizing it was there. The Bulgarians, according to a letter posted on the Web by a "combat buddy" of the deceased, fired warning shots at a civilian Iraqi vehicle that was approaching them. "The Americans didn't know who fired the shots or why and so opened fire at the Bulgarian patrol," the letter said. In Bulgaria, the incident sparked new calls for the country to withdraw...
...summit, entitled “Unite Against AIDS: HIV/AIDS in Africa and the African Diaspora” will bring local students together on April 23 to examine the HIV/AIDS crisis and inspire youth, ages 15 to 24, to combat the disease...
Despite the somewhat distracting nature of the raw footage, it emphasizes a central theme of the film: the uncertainty inherent in trying to keep peace in a combat zone. Every plastic bag on the street might be an IED (Improvised Explosive Device), every raid another anonymous order, every prisoner facing an unknown fate. There is no clear “mission” underway, no dramatic and well-coordinated “operation” in evidence...
...have not attended monthly drills in about a year. The shortfall has been made up by sending qualified reservists overseas more often. Civil-affairs and psyops units in Iraq have been short of soldiers who speak the local language and of proper weapons and gear for protection in combat zones, after-action reports say. One filed by a civil-affairs battalion commander last spring complained that his unit was sent into Iraq "criminally underequipped...
...STAND UP, SPEAK UP" An initiative by Nike, worn twinned with a white bracelet to combat racism in European soccer...