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Operation Steel Curtain opened up Saturday morning as two Marine battalions made a stealthy entrance into the outskirts of Huseybah, a smugglers' haven near the Syrian border that U.S. officials believe is the latest stronghold for insurgents loyal to Al Qaeda in Iraq...
...allied with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's Al Qaeda in Iraq group. So, the al-Mahal were kicked out of Huseybah and the jihadis moved in. Now, the al-Mahal are back helping their erstwhile enemies, the Marines, drive out their tribal foe-most of the fighters resisting Operation Steel Curtain are presumed to be from the Karabilah tribe. Ubaidi, about nine miles east of Huseybah, is considered a stronghold of foreigners...
...over. The tanks had collapsed most of the buildings in the school complex on top of those militants who hadn't fled. Those who had tried to run got a nasty surprise: "We started dropping 203s [small grenades] behind them so when they ran, they ran into steel," Ventrone said. "They picked the wrong time to attack us. We had two tanks...
...London, a refurbished power plant with its turbine hall preserved as a massive art-display space. By that time, from their home base in Basel, they were conquering the world. The past few years have seen the completion in Tokyo of a much discussed Prada store, with its honeycomb steel surfaces set with bulging lenses of glass; a major addition to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minn.; and a soccer stadium in Munich. Their relatively small firm has also snagged one of the biggest architectural commissions of the decade, the 2008 Olympic Stadium in Beijing, which will...
...credits Marshall with guiding the actors into a true ensemble. "He is very much like Mameha," she says. "He is playing a chess game. He knows all the moves and the countermoves. He planned it all out. I used to say to him, 'You're like silk and steel.' He has a very tough interior. But a director has to be that...