Word: mortars
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...appears, however, Baghdad had dispatched its troops on orders with strict rules of engagement. Instead of easily overwhelming the hastily collected defenders the Iraqi advance halted and eventually turned back, just three hours after the operation began. They covered their retreat with renewed mortar fire and drove their trucks, armored vehicles and tanks back over the ridge, re-entering their own lines...
...pocket, a finger poised on the trigger mechanism. TIME's correspondent witnessed the explosion from a ridge-top bunker a short distance away. A flash and thick curls of smoke engulfed the road before the crack of the explosion washed across farmers' fields. Moments later, a Kurdish government mortar battery retorted, dropping a round on the lip of an Ansar bunker within view of the chaotic checkpoint scene...
...Kurdish trenches are hit by mortar and heavy machinegun fire from the Ansar lines on a daily basis. On Monday night, TIME's correspondent had sheltered with a peshmerga frontline unit through a four-hour barrage. But the resort to suicide tactics shifts the boundaries. Some of the soldiers present during the attack at the Zamaqi roadblock claim a suicide bomber struck the Halabja bazaar last year. However, a Kurdish political officer assigned to oversee the Ansar front, Burhan Saeed Sofi from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party (which controls the Kurdish region's eastern half) says that attack...
...Niall Connolly, Martin McCauley and James Monaghan, suspected I.R.A. bombmaking experts arrested in 2001 for allegedly training FARC militants. All three insist they were there to observe peace talks, which have since collapsed. But senior Colombian police tell Time the FARC paid the trio $2 million for explosives and mortar instruction. Last spring, FARC mortars killed 119 peasants, accused by the guerrillas of aiding the A.U.C., as they huddled in a church. The I.R.A., say officials, also got the run of the vast jungle controlled by the FARC to test new weapons. Says one police commander, "We fear Colombia...
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