Word: combative
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...could face in criticizing U.S. troops as a midterm election approaches. "As a retired Colonel in the U.S. Marines," said Kline, who faces Coleen Rowley, the FBI whistleblower, this November, "I am especially proud of the sacrifices our men and women make day in and day out, especially in combat situations. And as a Marine Officer I would never want to publicly insinuate, implicitly or explicitly, that I have prejudged what took place that day on the battlefield or afterwards...
...name only as Al-Hajj. He and his four colleagues were driving a dented black SUV, the windows blown out and a rear tire squashed flat. One of his comrades had a bloody bandage wrapped around his head. They were all dressed in grubby civilian clothes, although some had combat trousers and boots. "The Israeli enemy used all kinds of weapons against the resistance men, but despite this we overcame them because of our unity and religion," says a grinning Al-Hajj, fired up with a zeal that overcame his evident exhaustion. Most of the villagers fled the fighting...
...lies less than a mile from the border. Perhaps the difference lay in experience - the Hizballah men lolling around the village were in the late 20s to mid-30s, at least a decade older than most of the Israeli troops they were fighting. All of them would have been combat veterans of the 1990s, when Hizballah fought a resistance campaign against the Israeli army occupying south Lebanon. Perhaps most of all, they relied heavily on their Islamic faith, accepting the will of God on matters of life and death, defeat and victory. For these fighters, victory was assured because they...
...fighting ostensibly triggered by the soldiers' capture has left hundreds of Lebanese killed - mostly civilians, although Hizballah and Israel dispute the number of fighters slain - almost 1 million displaced and Lebanon's economy shattered; it has left 118 Israeli soldiers dead in combat and 39 civilians killed by Hizballah rocket barrages that fell in Israeli cities until the last hours of the month-long war, and forced as many as 1 million Israelis to spend much of that month living in bomb shelters. And yet, as the guns go silent, those two Israeli soldiers remain captives of Hizballah...
...Mediterranean bluefin catch. The new large-scale ranches have wreaked havoc with the traditional fishermen's earnings. "The European market has totally changed in just two or three years," says Sevilla, director of Almadrade Capo Plata, one of Spain's few remaining traditional tuna-trapping companies. To combat the tuna ranches, Sevilla and other trappers need to halt their prey long before it reaches the Mediterranean's open water. From late May, shoals of tuna begin their annual migration from the Atlantic through the Strait of Gibraltar, before spending one month breeding in the Med's temperate water. The traditional...