Word: rebuilders
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...abortive tribal-area campaign a success. Hussain said he had secured the "allegiance" of Mohammed and his band to Pakistan. As part of the cease-fire deal, the army agreed to halt all military operations against the Wazir, release most of the 163 alleged terrorists rounded up in March, rebuild dozens of abodes destroyed in misguided raids on suspected terrorist safe houses, and give amnesty to Mohammed and four other warrior leaders. In exchange, Mohammed promised to refrain from launching or helping to launch attacks on U.S. troops in Afghanistan...
...buildings. One bomb misses the target, but a second strike sends bits of the building flying high into the sky, to the delight of watching Marines. Captain Weston has another target in mind. Bailey shrugs. "It's the [commanding officer]'s call," he says. "We've got to rebuild this f______ country sooner or later. We don't want to blow up too much...
...murdered in the memorable Passover massacre in Netanya. That spring, the Israeli army stormed into the West Bank, fought pitched battles with armed and not-so-armed Palestinians, and imposed draconian security measures--in effect, turning the Palestinian areas into a vast prison camp. "We also began to rebuild our intelligence networks in the West Bank," a retired intelligence officer told me. "You know how that works--money, money and more money. You buy collaborators. And cell by cell, we rolled up most of the West Bank terrorist networks. This may not be victory--victory is when the enemy...
...when Iraqi police officers strip off their uniforms before heading home for fear of being tarred as collaborators with the hated occupiers; when contractors are confined to their walled compounds because they risk voiding their life-insurance policies if they venture out into the country they are expected to rebuild...
Iraq was a country utterly ruined by Saddam Hussein. Paul Bremer has had to rebuild it from the ground up. He has been making dozens of decisions every day, the vast majority of them successful: the economy is reviving, tens of thousands of Iraqis have returned from exile, oil production is near prewar capacity, the country is rebuilding. Did we make any mistakes? Of course we did. The most egregious being not giving enough protection to the pro-Western Ayatullah Abdul-Majid al-Khoei, who was murdered, most likely by followers of the now notorious Muqtada al-Sadr...