Word: mortars
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...fleeing Taliban fighters - but no sign of combatants. The lack of enemy fighters emboldened British commander Roger Lane to say the war in Afghanistan was "all but won." The troops later used 100 kg of plastic explosive to blow up the four caves, which contained up to 40,000 mortar shells, rockets and grenades...
...brandished banners in support of the Palestinians. Satellite channels broadcast reports on Palestinian suffering, as well as talk shows on which guests vent their rage. But the Arabs are not only shooting off their mouths. From bases in southern Lebanon, Hizballah and Palestinian guerrillas stepped up rocket and mortar attacks on Israeli targets. A band of Egyptian teenagers even tried to sneak into Israel, saying they wanted to join the battle. Whenever the Israeli-Palestinian dispute erupts in crisis, as in Israel's latest incursion into Palestinian territories after another round of Palestinian suicide bombings, a wave of Arab anger...
CHECHNYA Not Over Yet At least 17 members of the pro-Moscow Chechen police were killed in an ambush in central Grozny. On the previous day six Russian soldiers died and 11 were injured in a mine attack, reportedly in retaliation for Russian mortar strikes on the southern village of Gorgachi, which killed two children and a pregnant woman. Two hours after the Grozny explosion, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared in his State of the Union address that the "military stage" of the conflict in the rebel republic was over...
...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...