Word: harassed
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...history of allowing al-Qaeda members to enter and exit Iran across the Afghan border. This practice dated back to October 2000, with Iranian officials issuing specific instructions to their border guards-in some cases not to put stamps in the passports of al-Qaeda personnel-and otherwise not harass them and to facilitate their travel across the frontier. The report does not, however, offer evidence that Iran was aware of the plans for the 9/11 attacks...
...teacher from Sadr City, al-Sadr's stronghold in Baghdad. He commands a small group of fighters in Najaf and explains how they operate. "I came with 10 men, and the commanders here gave me a part of the city to defend," he says. "When the Americans advance, we harass and retreat, fire from new positions and then retreat again. If the attacking force is too big, we call for support." In the past month, three in his unit have been killed and five injured, he says. Other fighters say they are receiving help and advice from former soldiers...
...with sophisticated 'link analysis' programs were busy printing out diagrams of bin Laden's loose-knit network, which included thousands of Muslim fighters ... In early 1996, intelligence sources tell TIME, the CIA also began making plans to 'snatch' Osama from a foreign country ... [It] launched a secret program to harass his network ... The CIA would spot bin Laden operatives in foreign countries, then quietly enlist the local security service to arrest or deport them and allow the agency to sift through materials left in their apartments. In many cases, the CIA didn't know 'exactly what each person was doing...
...tank pumps in more tracer. From the roof of an unfinished building, Marines blast the target with machine guns, providing protective cover. The rest of the Marines pull back, running across a field and over to bushes, urged on by yelling noncommissioned officers (NCOs). They expect the insurgents to harass them all the way back to their base. One young man falls and lies prone on the ground, his head pressed down as if afraid something might hit him. His hands shake uncontrollably. Chachi, a member of Easy Company's intelligence unit who asks to be identified only...
...Just like other corporations in this country, they’ve hired little Nazis to harass our workers and intimidate them,” Chiles said, setting the tone for the rest of the protest. “We won’t put up with these agents of President Summers. We will not be intimidated by any little Nazis...