Word: firefighting
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...from starvation. To paraphrase Ernest Hemingway they claim that in combat Kerry exemplified ?grace under pressure.? But PCF-44 Gunner?s Mate Stephen M. Gardner-in a long telephone interview from his home in Clover, South Carolina-has a starkly different memory. ?Kerry was chickenshit,? he insists. ?Whenever a firefight started he always pulled up stakes and got the hell out of Dodge...
...ferocity of the battle in Samarra, where reports cite eyewitnesses telling of dozens of guerrillas roaming the streets during the firefight, local civilians taking up arms to support them and rebels standing their ground against overwhelming odds, suggests that the insurgency may even be escalating. Even as President Bush insists that the U.S. will stay until the insurgents have been defeated, U.S. field commanders in Iraq canvassed by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (available as a PDF download) suggested that the insurgency will continue until the U.S. forces leave. Although the political decisions have yet be made...
...bloodletting continued following the President's visit, with seven Spanish intelligence officers, two Japanese diplomats, two South Korean contractors and one from Colombia killed by insurgents over the weekend, while the U.S. military reported killing 54 Iraqis at Samarra in what may have been the biggest firefight of the occupation. The Samarra incident, which began when insurgents ambushed two U.S. convoys in an apparent attempt to steal new banknotes being delivered to the town's banks, is shrouded in mystery. The U.S. claimed to have killed first 46, then 54, many of them wearing the uniform of Saddam's Fedayeen...
...calm, masked gunmen recently murdered 12 Christian villagers in two attacks, with most of the killings happening on Oct. 12?the first anniversary of the Bali blasts. Jakarta launched a massive manhunt for the shooters, and the effort yielded quick results. Police killed six alleged gunmen in a firefight on Oct. 16 and arrested 17 others...
...Force and the Army Rangers—was airdropped into the city’s volatile Bakara Market neighborhood. Their assignment: to capture two prominent lieutenants of Somali warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid. What followed was, as Black Hawk Down author Mark Bowden notes, “the longest sustained firefight involving U.S. troops since Vietnam...