Word: mortaring
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...Taliban claimed responsibility for a number of attacks, including one on March 19 in Khost, in eastern Afghanistan. There, shortly before midnight, a U.S. base came under mortar and automatic-weapons fire. The attackers had crept to within a few hundred feet of the U.S. camp and were using an old prison building as cover. After a 45-min. battle that saw AC-130 gunships in action against the Taliban, the Americans say, they found "more than 10" bodies around the building. The ex-Taliban in Peshawar, however, are not deterred. They say they will be back, that when...
...what now? The recent undulations of the conflict have left ordinary Israelis and Palestinians numb with shock and the rest of the world bewildered by a conflict that seems without end. In the frenzy of mortar fire, bombings, hurried press conferences and banner headlines, four key questions emerge...
This battle should have been called a massacre. To place troops, no matter how highly trained, in a field of mortar fire and grenades to face an enemy in fortified caves was unpardonable. The commanders of the U.S. troops don't know their military tactics. A small atom bomb should have been used to clean out the rat's nest of al-Qaeda fighters. I would not be as gracious as some parents who say their son died doing what he wanted to do. In my view, many of these young folks died when they should have lived. GEORGE...
...brightly colored pickup; two Americans sat in the cabin, and another team of special forces followed them. As the truck splashed around a muddy bend, Sabur told TIME, "al-Qaeda opened fire on us with something big." In a mud-brick hut was hidden an antiaircraft gun or mortar. Munitions ripped through the cabin. Sabur took shrapnel in his leg. The convoy returned fire and called in air support. Three helicopters thundered up the canyon, blasting away at enemy positions. A few days later, another Afghan from the convoy showed a TIME reporter the truck, lying on its side...
...hammer and anvil" maneuver on Saturday, allied forces tried to encircle al-Qaeda fighters and cut off their escape routes, while Afghan militia advanced into the valley. Instead the Americans found themselves pinned down by mortar fire and rescued only after a fierce 18-hour fire fight. In the next three days, eight Americans were killed in battle...