Word: convoying
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...army convoy rattled through Al-Adhamiya like a carnival roller coaster, each turn as blind as the next. Not that the soldiers could see much anyway. Night had fallen on the old Baghdad quarter, a byzantine maze lit only by kerosene lamps flickering from rugged stone houses. We moved warily in the darkness, patrolling for insurgents in blind alleys custom-made for ambushes and narrow passages perfect for concealing roadside bombs. It was anyone's bet who faced a more dire risk, the hunted in terrorist cells or the hunters in humvees, along with whom I was riding under...
...Windows rattled across the city Friday morning as a suicide car-bomber rammed a U.S. convoy patrolling near the U.S. embassy in the city center. It was the second suicide attack in a week, following on Monday's bombing near the airport that killed five people. And it came at the end of a week of fierce clashes in the south; the strength of Taliban resistance has surprised NATO commanders, who on Thursday called on member states to send a further 2,000 troops to reinforce its counterinsurgency mission in the Taliban's heartland...
...contingent has negotiated to the rules of engagement that reflect its government's willingness to accept casualties. On a recent trip organized by NATO, Council on Foreign Relations expert Max Boot says he heard "a British officer berating a Dutch air force officer for limiting his activities to tame convoy escorts and not having the guts to engage in real combat...
...rifle that the Marines claim was taken from one of the town residents killed that day. But Wuterich's lawyers say their client has a clear memory of what was done with that AK-47; he says it was put into the first Humvee in his convoy, along with a suitcase taken from one of the Iraqi houses, by another Marine (whom the lawyers will not name). The AK-47 and the suitcase were to be taken back to base, tagged and put in a secure location. Wuterich says he does not know what happened to it after that...
...There are no favorable alternative roads to Teir Harfa, however. One shows a near constant line of red crosses, the other is a track that meanders through a deep valley used by Hizballah to fire rockets. Lionel sighs and orders the convoy to return to base in Naqoura...