Word: hit-and-run
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...definitely worked on bunting, hit-and-run type stuff, which is the type of style we want to play,” senior Faiz Shakir said. “We’ve put more emphasis on getting runners on and moving them over, stealing, hit-and-runs, bunts...
...Faiz can do a lot of things—he can hit-and-run and work the count,” Mager said. “He’s real versatile...
...somewhere inside a 30-sq.-mi. patch. Stalking the rebels in jungle so dense that no light shines through the canopy of foliage, along jagged ridges often shrouded in fog, is like fighting in a dark closet with sunglasses on. The enemy are masters of the hit-and-run ambush, and might be lurking behind every curtain of vines, every thicket or frond...
...Such actions haven't stopped Palestinian militants making hit-and-run attacks and suicide strikes, but armed action by Palestinians has done little to advance their cause politically, militarily or diplomatically. The attacks have hardened Israel's resolve, alienated the West, brought harsh repression down on ordinary Palestinians and put the goals of statehood and Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza even further beyond reach. There's a grim consensus in Palestinian society today that the al-Aqsa intifada has achieved little for their people - but that doesn't stop the militants who flip the equation by asking...
...fought briefly in the Afghan jihad against the U.S.S.R. and in 1986 founded the Markaz Ad-Da'wah Wal Irshad, a religious education and proselytizing organization. Lashkar spun off two years later, attracting veterans of the Afghan war. It has taken responsibility for many hit-and-run operations in Indian-held Kashmir but says it never targets civilians. Nevertheless, two civilians and one soldier died in its December 2000 attack on Delhi's landmark Red Fort...