Word: units
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hunt for al-Qaeda fugitives. Still, the head of France's military announced on Monday that Osama bin Laden had more than once in recent weeks narrowly escaped from French troops fighting in a new U.S.-led offensive aimed at snaring the al-Qaeda leader. The U.S. military unit that captured Saddam Hussein has been moved to the Afghan-Pakistan border, and U.S. officials have expressed confidence they'll get their man by year's end. And, as President Bush has noted, up to two-thirds of the known al-Qaeda leadership is already either dead or in custody...
...cities and towns, says New York University law professor Noah Feldman, who has advised the Administration on Iraq, "they have a tendency to look like wimps." That's a perception the insurgents are certain to put to the test. Lieut. Colonel Russell says "these people respect strength." His unit employed some of the most controversial tactics the occupation has seen: mass detentions, firing on suspected guerrilla positions amid civilians, demolishing houses, even ringing a troublesome village with barbed wire to make all residents pass through a single military checkpoint when they came or went. "We were trying to solve...
...close look by Brian Bennett and Michael Ware at the methods being employed by the insurgents fighting the U.S. We ended 2003 by naming the American soldier as Person of the Year, which included a profile by Michael Weisskopf and Romesh Ratnesar of the Tomb Raiders, an artillery survey unit in the U.S. Army's 1st Armored Division. As many of you know, Weisskopf and photographer James Nachtwey were seriously wounded in a grenade attack while traveling with the unit...
...your ceiling and reporting the phase of the moon. The clock can also tell you the barometric pressure, humidity, predicted weather for the next 12 to 18 hours and the temperature and humidity, transmitted from a wireless sensor that you can place up to 90 ft. from the main unit...
...Bears have continued the tradition of solid defense. Danis rates near the top of the ECAC in every major goaltending category, Brown has the second best team defense in the ECAC, allowing less than two goals per game, and also the league’s best penalty kill unit. But to that defense Brown has added a potent power play, a unit that is tops in the ECAC and fourth in all the nation...