Word: weaponeering
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...observation post about 40 m from the gun. Because there were no rocks or shrubs big enough to shield them, they would have to build two fake bushes from pieces of smaller plants. At this point, says the trooper, dissent began to emerge. Constructing hides so close to the weapon was too risky, some of the men thought: they could keep watch just as effectively, and more safely, from further away. "There were other places to hide,'' the trooper says. The leader disagrees: "There was nowhere f______ else," he tells Time. He stood firm, the hides were built...
...Around midday, a man armed with a rifle strolled up the track. The soldiers froze. Spotting the odd-looking bush from about 10 m away, the man "went for his weapon," according to the patrol report. "It was the last thing he did,'' says the trooper. The SAS men opened fire. Alerted by the gunshots, armed men fanned out from the village below, some climbing the path toward the gun emplacement. The troopers fired shots and threw a grenade in an effort to keep them back, but the Afghans split up and outflanked them. Within minutes, bullets were whizzing from...
...according to some of the men - he dropped his M-4 automatic rifle, and when he reached the depression knocked the scout out of the way. "You don't do that,'' says the trooper. "It's not the Anzac way. And you don't leave your weapon.'' The trooper says the leader told the scout to fetch his rifle, which he did under heavy fire...
...younger Senators contend that if anybody is trashing the traditions of the institution, it is the Democrats, who are abusing a weapon that earlier generations reserved for only the gravest matters. In the entire 19th century, the filibuster was used only 22 times; now Democrats regularly filibuster dozens of times a year. And until the Democrats started filibustering judges two years ago, the measure was almost never used to defeat a President's judicial nominee. Since then, they have used the filibuster to block 10 of Bush's picks--seven of whom he has renominated, in part to provoke this...
...under the rules of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, but the EU-3 (Britain, France and Germany), like the U.S. and Israel, suspect that Iran is taking advantage of the considerable latitude allowed by the NPT to create nuclear infrastructure that could put it within months of assembling a nuclear weapon should it withdraw from the treaty as North Korea has done...