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...lethal rocket strikes against the U.S. occupation army are part of the regular routine. At the modest farmhouse of a fellow member of his network of insurgents one recent evening, Abu Ali--the nom de guerre he has chosen--welcomes seven fighters into a room lined with worn sofas. Despite the steady whoomp-whoomp of circling U.S. helicopters, the insurgents sit back, chain-smoking and chatting about weapons, tactics, the long lines to get gasoline, whose children are starting to crawl. A young man spreads a plastic sheet on the floor and lays out plates of roasted chicken, rice, bean...
...small team walks into a flat field to aim a rack of homemade launching tubes toward the lights of the Baghdad airport, home to U.S. chopper squadrons, supply units and the CIA-led Iraq Survey Group, less than two miles away. The insurgents load three air-to-air rockets they have modified to launch from the ground, flash a signal with car headlights and disappear. A second team creeps in to fire the volley, while a security detail armed with assault rifles and machine guns forms a perimeter. Beyond these fighters, according to the cell's security chief, a ring...
...Sergeant First Class Alvin Ware had a bad feeling. In the near distance, he could see men crouching on rooftops and darting down alleyways. His fears soon proved to be well founded. As the convoy approached, he realized that some of the figures were carrying mortars and rocket-propelled grenades. Before long, says Ware, 34, "they were firing in all directions...
...countries whose firms will be able to bid for prime contracts in Iraq). And the insurgency will not end overnight. Remember: asymmetric warfare is aptly named. A mere handful of terrorists can tie up large armies for years - indeed decades. Iraq is dripping with high explosives, guns and rocket-propelled grenades, and awash in angry young men who know how to use them and who would like to kill as many Americans as they...
...commuter train close to the spa town of Yessentuki in Russia's Stavropol region, some 1,600 km south of Moscow. The attack killed 41 and injured more than 170. Now, the Chechen insurgency is spreading to neighboring regions. Ten hours after the train bombing, rebels fired a rocket-propelled grenade at the FSB security service headquarters in Magas, Ingushetia. The Kremlin hoped to pacify the Chechens with elections in October, which the pro-Moscow candidate Akhmad Kadyrov won. But according to a senior Russian military official, "Kadyrov made a deal with the separatists. He recruits rebels into his police...