Word: snipered
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...Sniper fire, Baghdad...
...baby boy named Keoni in the house, he decided to re-enlist. He hoped a career in the military would provide a stable income for his family. He arrived in Baghdad last October and was promoted to sergeant and squad leader. Two weeks later, he came into an enemy sniper's sights in Baghdad while leading a patrol. His squad fights on without him. "I wish to hell," Barbara says, "they'd get them home...
...Three U.S. Army companies currently live on small bases in the neighborhood, and a fourth is setting up shop. Delta Company, 2-12 Cavalry, operates in the Sunni insurgent stronghold of south Ghazaliya, and in recent weeks it has seen the constant drumbeat of sniper fire, roadside bombs and firefights with insurgents ease significantly...
...make such elegant sense of it that readers wonder why they never saw order in all that chaos before. Malcolm Gladwell did it for snap decision making. Jared Diamond did it for the rise of civilizations. Now Lynne O'Donnell, with High Tea in Mosul, does it for sniper fire and kidnapping threats. Four years into the war in Iraq, she captures with stark simplicity what it's like to live with ceaseless fear and violence...
...you’ve gone from being a hoodlum on the streets of Boston to an underwear model to a mediocre rapper to an Academy-Award-nominee. What would you do next? Star in an action film, obviously. With “Shooter,” a thriller about sniper Bob Lee Swagger—who is framed in an attempted assassination of the president—Mark Wahlberg returns to a rough-and-tumble role similar to the butt-kicking captain he played in “Planet of the Apes.” But according to the actor...