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  • The resistance is pitched to Werner as supremely organized; they are dangerous, disciplined insurgents; they follow the words of ferocious, lethal leaders.†   (source)
  • His uncle and cousins were Republicans in the War of Independence; they fought with Michael Collins and were there at the Four Courts building in Dublin in April of 1922, when the Brits stormed the building and killed the insurgents, and they were there when Collins was assassinated a few months later, near Cork.†   (source)
  • Management's lawyer would contest the proxies of the insurgents ("I challenge this!†   (source)
  • Ironically, the greatest triumph for both, protagonists was the time they were forced to cooperate during the goblin insurgence.†   (source)
  • Along the way, they began encountering the sort of fanatical insurgency that would characterize the war after Baghdad fell.†   (source)
  • That was really where we were blooded for battle, combing those urban streets, flushing out insurgents wherever they hid.†   (source)
  • Upon the mention of St. Charles, someone asked if anyone from there had heard about Tim Jenkins, who was fighting in Afghanistan; they'd seen some mention of a kid from Illinois being shot to death by an Afghan insurgent posing as a police officer.†   (source)
  • Except for an occasional and unaccountable insurgent who chose a restive black, they married "up," lightening the family complexion and thinning out the family features.†   (source)
  • "An insurgent who was previously a Muslim is now an apostate," they declared.†   (source)
  • It was the struggle between the state and secret groups of insurgents, state-born, wild-eyed—the anarchists, terrorists, assassins and revolutionaries who tried to bring about apocalyptic change.†   (source)
  • The Afghan Insurgent The best-known aid effort in Afghanistan and Pakistan is the school-building project of Greg Mortenson, a mountain climber who came down half dead from a failed attempt to climb the second-highest peak in the world, K2.†   (source)
  • 10 the cast, a mile away, was where foreign insurgents had recently arrived.†   (source)
  • The second battle was against the Taliban insurgency.†   (source)
  • In the next hour a few ministers and political leaders arrived, and telephone negotiations with the insurgents were begun in order to gauge the magnitude of the insurrection and to find a peaceful settlement.†   (source)
  • I think of Kim chasing Taliban insurgents and ducking flying trees.†   (source)
  • The convoy I was in was hit, and I was taken by some insurgents.†   (source)
  • Howe, who had served in America during the Seven Years' War—or the French and Indian War, as it was known in America—was convinced the "insurgents" were few in number in comparison to those loyal to the Crown.†   (source)
  • One of the insurgents.†   (source)
  • The province has been a favored spot of insurgent groups for decades.†   (source)
  • We killed four insurgents and captured four more.†   (source)
  • 1971 was the year of the Insurgence.†   (source)
  • While Jack was on leave taking care of Sophie, Hoagland told me how Jack had been abducted in Cyprus by a red insurgent faction in sixty-four.†   (source)
  • To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war.†   (source)
  • To keep the peace, citizens would oppose the insurgents.†   (source)
  • Not all were good; nearest to a favorable story in India was editorial in New India Times inquiring whether Authority was risking bread of masses in failing to come to terms with Lunar insurgents.†   (source)
  • Is there any kind of counter insurgency?†   (source)
  • They were no wild-eyed jihadis, the instructors; they were exclusively Iraqi, all former soldiers and battle-hardened veterans of the Sunni insurgency.†   (source)
  • We're not even sure he's part of the insurgency.†   (source)
  • The Petersburg garrison has joined the insurgents!†   (source)
  • For the party which, in its drive for unity, discipline and success, ever decides to exclude new ideas, independent conduct or insurgent members, is in danger.†   (source)
  • Because really, Werner thinks, they are all insurgents, all partisans, every single person they see.†   (source)
  • These terrorist/insurgents know the rules as well as they did in Iraq.†   (source)
  • Insurgents normally put small rocks in the middle of the road to warn others where we were.†   (source)
  • The Army commander estimated we got two dozen insurgents in the first twelve hours of the fight.†   (source)
  • Pretty much the moment the Marines pulled back, the insurgents completely took over Fallujah.†   (source)
  • In theory, they were supposed to keep insurgents out.†   (source)
  • One day, intel came in concerning insurgents planting IEDs along a certain highway.†   (source)
  • We kept a running tally of how many insurgents we shot, even during the worst firefights.†   (source)
  • The Marines put the rest of the insurgents out of their misery.†   (source)
  • IT WAS ALWAYS HARD TO TELL HOW MANY insurgents were opposing us in a battle like that.†   (source)
  • OUR REAL PROBLEM WAS WITH THE INSURGENTS using the marsh across the river as cover.†   (source)
  • Pushed from the village and the mosque, the insurgents retreated to the hospital.†   (source)
  • WE NEVER FOUND OUT WHAT THE INSURGENTS WHO slipped past were up to.†   (source)
  • We waited, continuing the firefight and ducking the insurgents' growing spray of bullets.†   (source)
  • If that's true, in Iraq, the insurgents made it really easy.†   (source)
  • The insurgents had started kidnapping them, trying to disrupt the government.†   (source)
  • The insurgents ran off, and we picked ourselves back up and got going.†   (source)
  • BY EARLY JUNE, THE ARMY HAD COME UP WITH A plan to take Ramadi back from the insurgents.†   (source)
  • I ENDED UP GETTING SEVEN INSURGENTS THAT DAY, and more the next.†   (source)
  • The insurgents would use the families to put pressure on the officials to drop out.†   (source)
  • The insurgents would start out with automatic fire, pop off a bit here, pop off there.†   (source)
  • Reportedly, the insurgents put out a bounty on my head.†   (source)
  • After we began engaging the insurgents, we would become the targets ourselves.†   (source)
  • One time we were in a building and we were hosed down by the insurgents outside.†   (source)
  • And not just pop shots—the insurgents would use any weapon they had, from AKs to RPGs.†   (source)
  • Hell, there were piles of insurgents littering the road.†   (source)
  • I was trapped, hung up by the insurgents and without my mysteriously disappearing friend.†   (source)
  • The insurgents didn't worry about ROEs or court-martials.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, the insurgents kept using mopeds and gathering intelligence.†   (source)
  • Just beyond it were two insurgents, AKs slung over their shoulders.†   (source)
  • The Iraqi who'd been inside had clearly escaped to alert the nearby insurgents where we were.†   (source)
  • ONE DAY, WE TOOK OUT A GROUP OF INSURGENTS A short distance from the hospital.†   (source)
  • He was up on the roof with us one night when we started taking shots from insurgents somewhere.†   (source)
  • But, for some reason, that day the insurgents decided to lie low.†   (source)
  • As the nights went on, I realized the number of insurgents was growing.†   (source)
  • No matter what, there were plenty of insurgents, and plenty of firefights.†   (source)
  • Here, the insurgents were going to come to us.†   (source)
  • A lot of times, the insurgents would hide behind embankments and other barriers, well protected.†   (source)
  • Eventually, the insurgents might be able to get enough men together that I couldn't kill them all.†   (source)
  • Al-Anabar Province, the area that contained the city, was studded with insurgents of various forms.†   (source)
  • Many of the insurgents who'd been run out of Fallujah were said to have holed up there.†   (source)
  • OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS, THE INSURGENTS HAD stopped coming out to fight us.†   (source)
  • I waited a second to make sure the insurgents were done firing, then got back up.†   (source)
  • Insurgents started feeding into the area and a huge firefight erupted.†   (source)
  • The insurgents pulled back, then things stoked up again.†   (source)
  • As soon as the insurgents saw us, they started letting us have it.†   (source)
  • RAMADI WAS INFESTED WITH INSURGENTS, BUT there was a large civilian population.†   (source)
  • We drove out there for a few days hardly seeing a person, let alone insurgents.†   (source)
  • The Army camp was a clear threat to the insurgents, and they wanted it gone.†   (source)
  • I'd seen insurgents follow this same pattern now for years.†   (source)
  • It appeared that the insurgents had ducked into a nearby house.†   (source)
  • In military terms, his offensive failed, but the insurgents remained strong in Sadr City.†   (source)
  • The brightest Iraqis, it seemed, were usually insurgents, fighting against us.†   (source)
  • The insurgents in Fallujah would be rooted out and destroyed.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, insurgents were sweeping toward it—so close we could hear them.†   (source)
  • By that fall, pretty much the only people who lived in Fallujah were insurgents.†   (source)
  • We moved around to the extent that we could, shifting locations to keep the insurgents off-balance.†   (source)
  • The insurgents were using the hospital as a gathering point.†   (source)
  • Then another six or seven insurgents appeared behind them.†   (source)
  • The insurgents began focusing their fire on me.†   (source)
  • We lit up the rest of the insurgents, killing them all.†   (source)
  • A few known insurgents were captured and detained in the operation.†   (source)
  • A couple of insurgents began moving toward the house as they arrived.†   (source)
  • It brought a couple of insurgents out and we bagged them.†   (source)
  • The insurgents were one-part terrorists, another-part criminal gangs.†   (source)
  • As soon as his people showed up, they'd draw all sorts of insurgents toward them.†   (source)
  • While there was still light, we got a few shots here and there, all on isolated insurgents.†   (source)
  • The insurgents here were a real mix; some were mujahedeen, former Baath or Iraqi Army guys.†   (source)
  • As he climbed, the insurgents who had lain low during the earlier attack began firing on him.†   (source)
  • The insurgents brought more than just their AKs to a fight.†   (source)
  • Just as I got on my gun, three insurgents came out right across the street, fifteen yards away.†   (source)
  • It made sense: the insurgents wanted to attack from a place where they could easily run off.†   (source)
  • A few minutes later, what did I see but the four insurgents who'd passed me earlier.†   (source)
  • A few had handbills showing insurgents wanted by the legitimate government.†   (source)
  • There were always nooks and crannies for insurgents to hide in.†   (source)
  • As the Army reached its objective, the insurgents started to give up.†   (source)
  • At some point as I ran, one of the insurgents threw a frag.†   (source)
  • The insurgents had prevented the sitting of the state supreme court at Springfield.†   (source)
  • The average age of the insurgents was seventeen and thousands were killed by police and army.†   (source)
  • Awakened by the gunfire, the insurgents at the other compound had also fought to their deaths.†   (source)
  • My unit fought Zarqawi-backed insurgents in a firefight that lasted almost eight hours.†   (source)
  • I was taken by insurgents and forced to watch some terrible things.†   (source)
  • My teammates got lucky and got the jump on them before the insurgents reacted.†   (source)
  • There were lines on the map beyond which the insurgents knew they would not be pursued.†   (source)
  • From our position on the roof, we could still hear the insurgents yelling.†   (source)
  • Seventeen terrorists and insurgents were killed that night.†   (source)
  • One of the insurgents screamed "Allahu Akbar!" and started to spray bullets out the window.†   (source)
  • There was relief all around, but soon the thread had been overtaken by a multi-participant debate about the efficacy of that war, U.S. foreign policy in general, whether or not we won in Vietnam or Grenada or even WWI, and the ability of the Afghans to self-govern, and the opium trade financing the insurgents, and the possibility of legalization of any and all illicit drugs in America and Europe.†   (source)
  • We'd clear a city of insurgents, but because there weren't enough troops to hold the city and keep it safe, the insurgents would occupy, it again soon after we cleared out.†   (source)
  • We continued our operations, looking for the key insurgents, forcing or bribing the information out of them.†   (source)
  • Are we fighting a war against insurgents on behalf of the Afghan government, or are we fighting it on behalf of the U.S.A.?†   (source)
  • We found it well to remember those Taliban insurgents were the very same guys who sheltered and supported Osama bin Laden.†   (source)
  • Platoons of us went out night after night, trying to halt the insurgents creeping through the mountain passes.†   (source)
  • Thus we often found ourselves in what looked like respectable streets but which were in fact piles of rubble, perfect hiding places for insurgents or even Sunni Muslim terrorists still fighting for their erstwhile leader.†   (source)
  • That Iraqi president was one wily devil, ducking and diving between his thirteen palaces, evading capture, making tape recordings, urging the dregs of his armed forces to keep killing us, encouraging the insurgents to continue the war against the great Satan (that's us).†   (source)
  • 'That never happened to us, but there was one time when we were in a house and some insurgents managed to plant an IED right outside the front door.†   (source)
  • So we bumped out, fighting the insurgents who were shooting at them, and looking for the mortar crews.†   (source)
  • The tribal leaders saw that we were bad-asses, and they'd better get their act together, work to- gether, and stop accommodating the insurgents.†   (source)
  • There were plenty of targets—upward of a hundred insurgents lined the roofs on the surrounding streets, trying to get us.†   (source)
  • The last of my guys had just cleared out of the building when the street shook with a huge force: the insurgents had set off an IED down the street.†   (source)
  • I'd see the families of the insurgents display their grief, tear off clothes, even rub the blood on themselves.†   (source)
  • A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE WRITTEN ABOUT THE battles in Fallujah mention how fanatical the insurgents were.†   (source)
  • IT WAS AN OPEN SECRET THAT THE IRANIANS WERE arming and training insurgents and in some cases even attacking Western troops themselves.†   (source)
  • By all accounts, they had grown tired of the insurgents and the chaos they had brought, and wanted them gone.†   (source)
  • As they moved to cross the street, I spotted some insurgents coming down J Street, which was one of the main roads in that area.†   (source)
  • And to the north, the Marines were doing their thing, taking areas, holding and clearing them of insurgents.†   (source)
  • Within minutes, half a dozen insurgents stepped out with automatic machine guns and started shooting at my flag.†   (source)
  • And they did: village after village, the insurgents would come and try and kill us; we'd take them down.†   (source)
  • Like Fallujah and Ramadi, there were different cliques and varying levels of expertise among the insurgents.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, I took the rest of the Marines and continued down the road in the direction of the insurgents' stronghold.†   (source)
  • Once the insurgents were met with a lot of force, however, you could count on about half squirting out the back or wherever to get away.†   (source)
  • With covert help from Iran, the insurgents had gathered arms and started launching mortars and rockets into Baghdad's Green Zone.†   (source)
  • Another company would come in behind them, securing the area and making sure that none of the insurgents snuck back in behind them.†   (source)
  • WE WERE AT A HOUSE ONE DAY, AND AFTER TAKING down some insurgents who'd been trying to plant IEDs, we came under fire ourselves.†   (source)
  • We'd engaged a bunch of insurgents, killing quite a few, and were waiting through a lull in the action.†   (source)
  • In Fallujah, the Marines had worked systematically through the city, chasing and then pushing the insurgents out.†   (source)
  • It was near a hospital the insurgents had converted into a headquarters before our assault, and even now the area seemed to be a magnet for savages.†   (source)
  • Lima was helping fill in holes—taking down pockets of insurgents who had crept in or been bypassed.†   (source)
  • If only we'd had a flamethrower ...THE MARSH REMAINED A "TARGET RICH environment" filled with insurgents.†   (source)
  • I was on my way to take up a position so we could overwatch a raid on the marketplace where one of the insurgents had a shop.†   (source)
  • THE ARMY HAD DECIDED TO CREATE A BUFFER ZONE to push the insurgents far enough away that their rockets would not reach the Green Zone.†   (source)
  • The insurgents were fighting among themselves, their ingenious plan to kill Americans now turned against them.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, mostly Sunni insurgents took hold of al-Anbar province, a large sector of the country to the west of Baghdad.†   (source)
  • A hospital was turned into an insurgent headquarters and used as a base of operations for the insurgents' propaganda machine.†   (source)
  • I KEPT FINDING SHOTS-THE insurgents were probing the area, one or two at a time, trying to sneak in behind us.†   (source)
  • By chance, the alley where it landed had been filled with insurgents; we found their bodies and weapons a short time later.†   (source)
  • Here I was, holding a pistol on a dozen insurgents for all I knew, and separated from the rest of my boys by a thick wall and locked gate.†   (source)
  • WITH THE ASSAULT ABOUT FINISHED, WE WERE GIVEN a new task: set up a cordon to make sure no insurgents were able to get back in.†   (source)
  • But in a way, I didn't mind being attacked—the insurgents were just making it easier for me to kill them.†   (source)
  • The idea was simple, if potentially risky: we'd make ourselves visible, trying to draw fire from the insurgents.†   (source)
  • One of our corn guys working a street over from us was with a unit that came under heavy fire from a building packed with insurgents.†   (source)
  • Insurgents would move into that area, trying to get into position to attack or maybe spy on the Marines.†   (source)
  • NOT LONG AFTERWARD, A GUY I'LL CALL RUNAWAY and I were on the street when we had contact with Iraqi insurgents.†   (source)
  • It gave us something to think about every time we heard of an attack by insurgents dressed as policemen, over the next few weeks.†   (source)
  • It was a good spot; we were able to get a few insurgents as they tried passing through the area on their way to attack the hospital.†   (source)
  • We knew instantly that the owner was muj—the insurgents were stealing uniforms and using them to disguise themselves in attacks.†   (source)
  • One day, a group of three insurgents appeared on the shore upriver, out of range at around 1,600 yards.†   (source)
  • Because of the way the streets were laid out and the number of insurgents, we were getting close shots—a number were as close as 200 yards.†   (source)
  • Insurgents kept popping up from behind the stones—I don't know if there was a tunnel or where they came from.†   (source)
  • Many of the insurgents were cowards.†   (source)
  • The Marines spent several weeks getting ready for the assault, launching a variety of operations to throw the insurgents off-balance.†   (source)
  • They told us that a group of insurgents had pinned down some other Marines not too far away, and we decided we'd try and help them.†   (source)
  • There were other insurgents operating in the area, but the Mahdi Army was by far the biggest and most powerful.†   (source)
  • It gave us a better position, allowing us to surprise any insurgents who tried rallying to the ground unit.†   (source)
  • As WE BUMPED OUT, THE INSURGENTS WOULD MOVE farther away and try and put more cover between us and them.†   (source)
  • It's true that it can be difficult to sort out civilians from insurgents in certain situations, but here the bad guys made it easy for us.†   (source)
  • They came over to the side of the roof and watched as the insurgents fought among themselves for the last beach ball.†   (source)
  • Our platoon, sixteen guys, teamed up with about twenty soldiers to clear the nearby village of insurgents.†   (source)
  • THE GUSTAV TURNED OUT TO BE ONE OF OUR MOST effective weapons when we came up against insurgents shooting from buildings.†   (source)
  • Insurgents had been testing the perimeters, sneaking as close as they dared and spraying the base with their AKs.†   (source)
  • Knowing that we considered cemeteries sacred, the insurgents typically used them to hide caches of weapons and explosives.†   (source)
  • Insurgents would pop up from the vegetation, take their shots, then squirrel back into the brush where you couldn't see them.†   (source)
  • There were plenty of times when I was still engaging insurgents and giving details to LT or another officer at the same time.†   (source)
  • "Rat holes" were created in compound walls, allowing insurgents to move from one house to another, avoiding streets.†   (source)
  • Every once in a while, we'd come across a building still occupied by families, but for the most part, the only people we were seeing were insurgents.†   (source)
  • He took the 60 and began laying down fire in the direction the shots had come from, chasing the insurgents back so we could carry Ryan down the stairs.†   (source)
  • My buddy later reported it had taken out over thirty insurgents—as much an indication of how many people were trying to kill us as how important the air support was.†   (source)
  • Dead ahead of me but out of view was the infamous bridge where the insurgents had desecrated the bodies of the Blackwater contractors half a year earlier.†   (source)
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