Word: mortared
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...brought home the pointlessness and savagery of the Balkan wars. Carla del Ponte, chief prosecutor at the International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, recalls being horrified by the attack. "I could not believe," she says, "that someone--anyone--could have fired a single shot or shell or mortar anywhere in its vicinity...
...medical understaffing and under-stocking of Abu Ghraib were felt most acutely after the prison came under shelling by insurgents. A doctor who served there recalled an attack last April when a mortar landed on an outdoor pen holding prisoners, killing at least 16 outright and wounding more than 60. Former prison personnel described how those attacks produced pandemonium, with panicked prisoners seeking treatment from what were at times very few, poorly equipped medical workers. "When somebody died, we just took out their chest tube and inserted it into another, living person," said National Guard Captain Kelly Parrson, a physician...
...knows yet whether the giddiness that accompanied the election will itself prove a trick, an illusory respite from the daily jolts of bombs, mortar rounds and kidnappings. The Pentagon announced that 15,000 troops would leave Iraq, but few believe the Iraqis are yet ready to defend themselves. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Richard Myers admitted last week that of the 136,000 Iraqi security forces that have so far been trained, only 40,000 are fully combat ready, able to "go anywhere in the country and take on any threat." In Washington, an e-mail making the rounds...
...river valleys and deserts. The nationalist fighters who control the area supply Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi's networks with the ammo they use for their deadly operations, according to U.S. military intelligence. Even as more attacks took place last week in the run-up to the election--including mortar rounds on the U.S. embassy that killed two Americans--the Iraqi government announced the capture of several key al-Zarqawi lieutenants, including an alleged "bomber-in-chief." U.S.-led forces arrested other significant insurgent leaders, the result of a monthlong sweep beyond Iraq's big cities. On a recent mission, TIME...
...adjacent to the embassy ... So they were aiming at our embassy." In fact, an attack like last week's was all but inevitable. Australian soldiers and military intelligence officers have been aware for some time that insurgent reconnaissance teams were casing the two-story embassy. Throughout last year, mortars and rockets were intermittently fired into the area around the embassy and the hotel opposite; the insurgents who launched them clearly didn't care what building they hit. On the afternoon of Oct. 17, a line of 120-mm mortars marched across Jadriyah, falling closer and closer to the embassy...