Word: firefights
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...September 30. The Golf and Fox companies officially took command of Combat Outpost on September 17, five days after a seven-hour firefight had served as a reminder that Ramadi, the capital of al-Anbar province, remains a key battleground in the war to shape Iraq's future. Not quite a no-go zone like insurgent-controlled Fallujah, Ramadi instead is the scene of an ongoing contest for control - The Marines on one side, various insurgent groups on the other, the people of Ramadi in the middle. "There is fighting near houses in the neighborhoods, says one of them, Waleed...
COVER STORY RUSSIA'S 9/11? A mass hostage-taking by Chechen terrorists ends in a firefight, leaving hundreds dead...
...followed the sheikh's advice that afternoon and made it all the way to the southern boundary of Najaf before being turned back by a firefight. Talib said he would take us to a hotel and come for us in the morning, and we agreed to try again, not sure if he would show...
...Talib arrived at eight the next morning. In a taxi with one of his friends. We retraced the route of the day before, moving to the southern border of the city. When we reached the place where we had been scared off by the firefight, we heard the sounds of sustained gunfire and explosions. Talib explained that we would have to walk from there. We gathered our gear and entered into the city. At each corner we asked locals for a way to the medina that would keep us at maximum distance from U.S. forces. We quickly found a place...
...less a figure than Osama bin Laden's own brother-in-law, Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, personally arranged initial funding for the group through one of the Islamic charities he operated in the Philippines at the time. But after the death of Abu Sayyaf's founder Abdurajak Janjalani in a firefight with police in August 1998, its religious and political goals were dropped in favor of kidnapping for ransom. The group was paid millions of dollars by the governments of Malaysia, Libya, Germany and France to release hostages seized from a Malaysian diving resort in April 2000. In 2001, Abu Sayyaf...