Word: soldier
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...bank guard fired at Dawyyat, inside the glass cabin of the bulldozer, possibly wounding him. Then, an off-duty soldier, fresh from basic training, jumped on the vehicle and fired three shots at the driver. "He yelled 'Allahu Akbar' and hit the gas," recounted Pvt. Moshe Plesser. Soon after, two SWAT officers rammed their motorcycles into the bulldozer, slowing it so that they were able to clamber aboard and pump three more bullets into the driver...
...academic art world seem resigned to The Colossus being an inferior work by a Goya imitator. Not just the initials buttress that judgment, but also the coarse depiction of the giant's musculature, the less-than-careful rendition of the surrounding landscape, and the unnatural way in which a soldier is falling from his galloping horse. Symmons still isn't convinced. "Goya did create a number of highly unorthodox works in maturity," she says, "and these works do not always correspond to the way some scholars like to regard him - as a more decorous and orthodox artist...
...equipment to the dam project, it's little wonder that villagers along the route aren't willing to stand up against the insurgents in their midst. "Until we establish security, the dam will do nothing to win the loyalty of the local population," says Captain Doug Beattie, a British soldier who has done two tours in Kajaki. It is the classic counterinsurgency conundrum: to win the support of the population, you must deliver development, but development can't take place without security, and security is dependent on popular support. "We have to persuade them that we can provide security...
...next phase, Israel and Hamas will start indirect talks, through the Egyptians, to trade captured Israeli soldier Corporal Gilad Shalit for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. Once Shalit is freed, says Israeli negotiator Amos Gilad, Israel will then agree to allow the reopening of Rafah, the main crossing between Gaza and Egypt, as long as it is manned by European Union monitors. Egypt will also undertake the near-impossible task of stopping arms from being smuggled into Gaza; Israelis are worried, with good reason, that Hamas will use the truce to rearm itself with longer-range and more accurate missiles...
...still in their hearts. Deep inside, they look at the military as their enemy." Civilian casualties during army ops, not an uncommon occurrence, also undermine public confidence in the authorities. The most recent example was a botched military raid in February during which seven civilians and an off-duty soldier were killed...