Word: mortared
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...amid a shooting war that will not end. For soldiers and citizens alike, there are still many ways to die in Iraq, and the coroners who tidy away the dead have seen them all. Rifle fire. Roadside bombs, or improvised explosive devices, as the U.S. military calls them. RPGs. Mortar fire. Suicide car bombs. Some days it feels as if Iraqis opposing the U.S. presence are throwing everything they can at the young soldiers and the locals helping them rebuild the country. Some weeks are better than others, but the drumbeat of attacks persists, and the drip-drip of casualties...
...Staff claims that Israel’s attack “ended the 30-year truce” between Israel and Syria. Funny that the “truce” was not ended by the Hezbollah mortar and rocket attacks on northern Israel that have persisted over that 30-year period. Hezbollah has always been based in Syria and in fact receives funding from the Syrian government. But despite this 30-year history of deadly terrorist incursions into northern Israel by a group supported by Syria, the Staff identifies Israel as violating the supposed truce that only...
...pencil, a compass and a screwdriver. My suitemate, Charles, screamed down instructions as I wrestled our satellite dish into place, adjusted it to compensate for the somewhat ‘untraditional’ orientation of Currier House with respect to the cardinal directions and fastened it to the mortar of the courtyard’s retaining wall with some ad-hoc combination of wood chips, nails and twist-e-ties. Incidentally, due to some quirk of 1970s architecture, Currier House carries its own magnetic charge, rendering a compass useless (though still cool-looking) and further complicating my project...
...achieving an exit from Iraq while leaving behind a decent outcome. But the administration's message is facing a daily battering from events on the ground. In the past eight days alone, 10 U.S. soldiers have been killed in a number of separate ambushes; mortar shells were fired on Iraq's foreign ministry in Baghdad; a truck bomb killed nine people at an Iraqi police station in the capital; a car bomb killed another nine people at a hotel used by Iraqi Governing Council and coalition officials; a Spanish intelligence official was assassinated outside his residence; and a car bomb...
...nightvision lenses, the video first shows a resistance commander drawing a map in the dirt with a stick, identifying how they will attack, as four footsoldiers with scarves round their faces listen. They discuss breaking into three groups. First, a machine gun is to engage the Americans. The attackers' mortar will then start hitting the ammo storage. In the light of the explosions, the Iraqi resistance fighters hope to glean the number of vehicles the Americans possess - and clarify targets for further RPG and mortar attacks...