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This is American planners' worst fear. City combat blunts the U.S. military advantages of speed and knowledge. What the Pentagon calls "urban canyons" offers hideouts for foes and civilians as well as sniper nests and underground lairs from which combatants can strike. Buildings create vast "dead spaces" for an enemy to exploit out of the sight of those trying to kill Saddam. They hinder communication and hamper anything flying low, like helicopters, spy drones and warplanes assisting forces on the ground. In cities, mobility and maneuver--two tenets of U.S. ground-combat strategy--hit a dead...
...followed his example. "About five of the guys from Charlie Company, they stayed up on the ridge line, and they were receiving sniper fire and machine-gun fire--rounds were bouncing all around them--but they stayed there to cover our movement," says Sergeant First Class Robert Healy, who was wounded in the fighting. "None of them faltered...
...Qaeda sniper in particular was getting on Perez's nerves. Hiding 500 yards away, he'd come out shooting--and he seemed to be spotting for a mortar unit. He'd wave and flip his middle finger at the Americans before ducking back inside his stone nest. He continued to elude U.S. fire until Perez teamed up with Sergeant Jerry Higley, another squad leader. Their M-4s didn't have magnifying scopes, and the distance and rising trajectory of their bullets made hitting the sniper a challenge. So the two sergeants began working together. Higley squeezed off rounds as Perez...
Almost daily, sniper bullets and small bands of fighters threaten American soldiers hunting al-Qaeda and Taliban members left behind in Afghanistan. But a more benign task entrusted to U.S. special forces stationed in Kabul--training the fledgling Afghan national army--is also proving dangerous. Funds for the endeavor are scarce, and weapons and ammunition are "not the quality you'd want at Fort Benning," says Lieut. Colonel Kevin McDonnell, who is responsible for the training. The Green Berets have resorted to tossing rocks to teach grenade handling and scrounging al-Qaeda and Taliban leftovers. Sometimes the troops launch risky...
...Israelis, thinking the shots were aimed at them, launched flares to illuminate the area. The flares, as they came down, set fire to some rooms in the Franciscan area of the complex. An officer of the National Security Force, Khaled Siyam, 25, rushed to put out the fire; a sniper's bullet killed him instantly. Disgusted by the carelessness of his comrades who fired into the air, an intelligence officer bitterly told a friend, "I wish the Israelis would come in here and slaughter every...