Word: tanks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...After Ortega was ousted from power in 1990, the U.S. did little to help war-ravaged Nicaragua get back on its feet. "We got rid of the Sandinistas and said everything else would take care of itself," says Michael Shifter, vice president for policy at the Washington-based think tank Inter-American Dialogue. "That created a lot of discontent" that aided Ortega's eventual comeback. The new Ortega may still prove to be the old caudillo, but his victory is a reminder of the price the U.S. so often pays for prematurely declaring its missions accomplished...
...security threat foremost on the minds of authorities may not have been gay-bashing extremists, but Palestinian suicide bombers creeping into Jerusalem. Palestinian militant groups have vowed to resume suicide attacks inside Israel to avenge the 19 Palestinians killed in Gaza on Wednesday when an Israeli tank gunner erroneously shelled their homes. In the 24 hours leading up to the planned Gay Parade, Israeli police received 80 security alerts in Jerusalem, and officials said that the 12,000 police officers required to protect the gay pride march would leave the city wide open to terrorists. Organizers relented and decided...
...Middle East, a simple human error can change the face of history. One such error may have occurred in Gaza on Wednesday, with potentially terrible effects. At around 5a.m., an Israeli tank gunner miscalculated the trajectory of his firing during an operation aimed at a site from which Palestinian militants had fired rockets , the previous day, into the Israeli city of Ashkelon...
...tank gunner's mathematical goof sent five shells crashing into a row of houses in Beit Hanoun, where dozens of Palestinian families lay sleeping. The shelling killed 19 people, including two women and six children, and wounded another...
...Israeli Defense Forces say an investigation is now under way into why the Israeli tank gunner pumped five shells into the streets of Beit Hanoun, an act that incurred condemnation from the European Union and Muslim countries. But an Israeli military spokeswoman made it clear on Wednesday that despite the tragedy, Israel would continue its offensive in Gaza for "as long as rockets land in Israel." In this unending spiral of violence, Palestinians shot off eight more rockets yesterday from Gaza. And now more will surely come...