Word: raids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...terms of casualties, last week's West Bank bombings were not nearly as serious as countless acts of Arab terrorism against Israel, or countless Israeli military strikes against Palestinian bases. At the end of last week, in fact, Israeli jets and armored units launched still another raid against Palestinian bases and refugee camps in southern Lebanon. In several other respects, however, the assassination attempts were, without question, among the most shocking and ominous developments in the West Bank since the Israeli conquest of that region...
...government of Prime Minister P.W. Botha was careful to keep its reaction subdued and controlled. Only after the A.N.C. had claimed responsibility for the acts did the government name two of the group's nonblack expatriate leaders as the raid's presumed masterminds. They were Joe Slovo, a white Communist exile now residing in Mozambique, and Frene Ginwala, a radical woman lawyer believed to be living underground within southern Africa...
...special session at Camp David on the rescue mission. After we had made the decision at the NSC to go ahead we had another meeting with the top leaders of the mission. That was at the White House. We went through the sequence for the raid step by step. We cross-examined the leaders. We asked all the questions we could think of about all the possible contingencies. We never found a single question that they had not thought of and considered in the planning for the rescue...
...make it out of the park; it is over. It is meaningless and worse, it is every bit as unreal as going to a class or writing about something or doing just about anything except fucking." He thinks of the Scots attacking Rommel in North Africa in a nighttime raid, using bagpipes to freeze the Germans with stark fear, and wonders, "Maybe we needed kazoos, ten thousand blood-curdling kazooers marching down Tremont...
Carter's handling of the raid into Iran borders on the incredible. He seems to have absorbed none of the lessons learned by the Israelis at Entebbe or the Germans at Mogadishu. The U.S. force combined elements of all four of the services, a composition more suitable to an honor-guard unit than a combat detachment. It is no wonder that the Army commander said afterward that he had no authority to destroy the helicopters left in the desert...