Word: combatative
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...German team, the Taliban fighters launched themselves at Spann, scrabbling at his flesh with their hands, kicking and beating him. Spann killed two more with his pistol before he disappeared under the crush. An Alabaman with a wife and three children, Spann became the first American to die in combat in Afghanistan...
...Iraq to the attacks of Sept. 11, and it would be inappropriate of the administration to portray any pressure placed on Iraq as simply a continuation of our campaign in Afghanistan. Rather, the administration must rebuild the international coalition against Iraq and its potential access to destructive weapons, and combat the threat of terrorism one step at a time...
...conduct hostilities on this basis." But what if the prisoners themselves had elected to fight to the death? That claim itself is worthy of examination, a Red Cross official suggested to a British newspaper: "How many of the prisoners were armed and how many had a real combat role?" he said. "If 700 prisoners were heavily armed then it may be argued that the fortress became a legitimate combat target. But nobody knows the answers to these questions...
...threat it represented. Such concerns may ring a little in a country whose wars have never been fought according to Geneva Convention rules. They may not be paid much heed in the U.S., either, where the major media focus has been on "Mike" Spann as a heroic first American combat casualty in the war against the perpetrators of the September 11 atrocity. But the British media and important sections of London's political establishment are saying that the "Afghan way of war" notwithstanding, the role of British and U.S. soldiers at Qalai Janghi demands an inquiry into whether the suppression...
...they'll begin launching missions. And those will be more robust than any we've seen before in this war. Instead of giving instructions, the Marines will be conducting operations themselves, and that will be only the second time in this conflict that U.S. forces have taken a direct combat role...