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...starting to revise that view. Fallujah has seen more than its share of bloodshed. In late April, U.S. forces based in a local school opened fire on a demonstration, killing 15 Iraqis. A month later, U.S. soldiers killed two locals after an American tank was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade. A group of Iraqis last week opened fire on U.S. troops at a checkpoint. Two Americans and two Iraqis died in a fire fight that lasted half an hour...
...doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that the nicest land over in Allston is the athletic fields along the river,” says FAS Associate Dean for Physical Resources and Planning David A. Zewinski...
...child was attempting to recover a rocket-propelled-grenade launcher from a fallen Iraqi, but the soldier’s instructions were to prevent any opposition forces from taking back the weapon...
...Some 41 U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq over the past six weeks, the latest one on Thursday when a rocket-propelled grenade struck an American vehicle in the town of Fallujah. Although more have been killed in accidents than in attacks thus far, there's certainly an uptick in hit-and-run strikes by Iraqi fighters sheltering in the civilian population. U.S. officials suspect Saddam loyalists for the attacks, which have been mostly concentrated north of the capital in predominantly Sunni Muslim strongholds of the Baath Party...
...suspects and trying to slow the flow of holy warriors into Indian-held Kashmir. Although the number of militants crossing into Kashmir dipped slightly, India now claims that Pakistani intelligence once again has opened the tap, sending perhaps hundreds of fighters across every month and furnishing them with guns, rocket-propelled grenades, radios and daily intelligence on where Indian troops are patrolling. For the Bush Administration, this presents a credibility gap. On a visit to Washington last week, General Ehsan ul Haq, chief of Pakistan's leading spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), was shown evidence...