Word: katyusha
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...Bush Administration finds its hopes for democracy in Lebanon almost completely dependent on the good faith of Hizballah-a wholly owned subsidiary of Iran, which provides the group with $100 million to $200 million annually, according to intelligence estimates-a group traditionally more interested in lobbing Katyusha rockets into Israel than in organizing municipal elections...
...glad for you that this time it's a boy. In the autumn, I am coming home." Fritz Schröder never came home, and never met his newborn son. On Oct. 4, 1944, two months after Romania declared war on Germany, he was killed, reportedly by a Katyusha rocket, while fighting in a bunker just south of Ceanu Mare. Anica Cuc, 88, was 28 at the time. Taking a break in her garden from some afternoon weeding last week, she recalled an ox-drawn wooden cart pulling up outside the village church after the battle, where it deposited "eight...
...every male in the city carries a combat weapon, even vendors who sell food and trinkets outside the mosque walls. As prayers draw to an end, the gunfire and occasional loud explosion seem to be getting closer. As soon as they finish, the Mahdi militia looses a salvo of Katyusha rockets at the U.S. base less than a mile away...
...network among Lebanese emigres. Israeli intelligence officers confirm that Sudan is a major source, but say most of the guns and bombs still originate in Lebanon. They believe Palestinian groups are trying to acquire deadlier plastic explosives, and fear that the tunnels could also be used to import Katyusha missiles into Gaza. In the face of such threats, Israel does not seem likely to end its aggressive tactics anytime soon...
...munitions reached their apparent destination, they would have considerably upgraded the arsenal of the P.A., which is known to have only light arms and crude mortars. Onboard the Karine A were Katyusha rockets, Sagger antitank missiles, Dragunov sniper rifles, advanced mortars and C-4 plastic explosives. The serial numbers had been scratched off the weapons to prevent identification, but Israeli officials tell TIME the cargo included antitank mines and rocket-propelled grenades of a design manufactured only in Iran...