Word: commando
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...your life or he wouldn't have saved it, as a pastor told Genelle Guzman-McMillan, the last survivor pulled from the hellfire. We all may want to be closer to our families, but consider Sergeant Randel Perez, who met his firstborn son on Christmas Eve by borrowing a commando's laptop and grabbing the satellite link from Afghanistan to visit the hospital website. "I'm sorry I couldn't be there," he told the image on the screen softly, over and over. It's one thing to calculate what we've lost; but then there's Victim Compensation Fund...
...lament. But for the 11 people TIME has followed this year, it may be just another day: for a girl in New Jersey without her dad, a day of avoiding the news; for a girl in Pakistan with divided loyalties, a day of avoiding her friends. For a commando in Afghanistan and a Customs inspector in Detroit, it's a day of weighing fears and threats. It may be a day of argument for the attorney who is defending a suspected terrorist by suing the President of the U.S., and it will most certainly be a day of planning...
Another defector, from Iraq's intelligence service, told a Vanity Fair reporter that Saddam's son Uday oversees a vicious 1,200-man commando force called al-Qarea, trained to carry out terrorist attacks against American targets. Washington counterterrorism experts are skeptical about whether Iraq really boasts such a cadre. A U.S. official who studies Iraq says al-Qarea is probably a ragtag collection of men Uday dressed up as militants to impress his father...
...cardinal rules of battle is to capture the high ground and blast away at the enemy below. Perhaps remembering his days as an army commando, President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan is employing the same tactic on his country's politicians. On Aug. 21, he clamped 29 new amendments onto Pakistan's Constitution? legal alterations that his critics say are designed to make his lofty position unassailable...
...Pakistani soldiers smashed the gate and walked into the courtyard. Snipers promptly raked the soldiers with machine-gun fire. About three hours later, a militant inside the fort yelled out that the group was ready to surrender. It was a ruse: as soon as al-Qaeda fighters, dressed in commando gear, began filing out, they opened fire on the soldiers and scattered across the orchards into the darkness. Two al-Qaeda men were killed, but an additional 35 escaped and are thought to be still roaming the tribal area. "When cornered, these people fight to the death," says a Pakistani...