Word: raided
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...Pedagogy was a key theme of Summers’ speech last night. He said that while other universities constantly attempt to poach accomplished researchers from Harvard, “I can’t recall a single case when an effort was made to raid Harvard for a candidate who was an outstanding teacher...
...question at the heart of Girouard's case is whether he ordered three Iraqi men killed during a raid last May in the Thar Thar Canal. During the raid, soldiers took four men captive. Shortly before the soldiers were supposed to pull out, three of the detainees were allegedly shot by two soldiers in Girouard's squad, Corey R. Clagett and William B. Hunsaker. One of the three Iraqis who did not die right away was allegedly shot point-blank by another soldier, Juston R. Graber, in what's been described as a mercy killing. Initially, squad members claimed that...
...Mackey said that when a report of the three detainees was radioed in to the base, an irate officer supposedly asked why the men had not been killed. Soldiers have also testified that before the raid, commanders had instructed them to leave no military-age men alive on the island...
...court-martial, however, is unlikely to answer another question: whether the men were killed because superior officers had, in essence, suggested that no military-age Iraqi men should be left alive in the raid of what was believed to be an insurgent stronghold. The defense has been complicated by the fact that the commanding officer, 3rd Brigade Commander Col. Michael Steele, will not testify at the trial. Col. Steele gained recognition for heroism in Somalia in 1993, actions later depicted in the book and movie Black Hawk Down...
Four days after the raid, some two dozen Australian special-forces soldiers blocked an intersection just south of Same and questioned people who passed. The group's commanding officer said they were "there to protect the safety of the people." Local residents said a group of Reinado's men had headed west towards the small mountain town of Alas, about 65 km southwest of Dili, and that troops had been scouring the rugged area on foot and by helicopter...