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  • 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)
  • THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT 'EVASION TECHNIQUES WHEN THERE IS LITTLE DISTINCTION BETWEEN FRIENDLY AND HOSTILE TERRITORY'—GET THIS: 'IT IS DIFFICULT TO DISTINGUISH THE INSURGENT FROM THE FRIENDLY POPULACE.†   (source)
  • Ironically, the greatest triumph for both, protagonists was the time they were forced to cooperate during the goblin insurgence.†   (source)
  • Management's lawyer would contest the proxies of the insurgents ("I challenge this!"†   (source)
  • Years later, after observing Communist insurgency in Southeast Asia, President John F. Kennedy—who had served in the navy during World War II—and others in the military understood the need for unconventional warriors.†   (source)
  • Along the way, they began encountering the sort of fanatical insurgency that would characterize the war after Baghdad fell.†   (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)
  • That was really where we were blooded for battle, combing those urban streets, flushing out insurgents wherever they hid.†   (source)
  • "An insurgent who was previously a Muslim is now an apostate," they declared.†   (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)
  • I think of Kim chasing Taliban insurgents and ducking flying trees.†   (source)
  • A place that was a sanctuary for the insurgents, a place where they felt safe and beyond the reach of the American military.†   (source)
  • One of the insurgents.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • I anticipate we will have to call for martial law to protect against any insurgence or riots at week's end.†   (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)
  • The village was a safe haven for insurgents, and several leaders were staying near the center of the town.†   (source)
  • Is there any kind of counter insurgency?†   (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)
  • 1971 was the year of the Insurgence.†   (source)
  • We killed four insurgents and captured four more.†   (source)
  • To keep the peace, citizens would oppose the insurgents.†   (source)
  • We're not even sure he's part of the insurgency.†   (source)
  • To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • We moved around to the extent that we could, shifting locations to keep the insurgents off-balance.†   (source)
  • ONE DAY, WE TOOK OUT A GROUP OF INSURGENTS A short distance from the hospital.†   (source)
  • The insurgents were using the hospital as a gathering point.†   (source)
  • We kept a running tally of how many insurgents we shot, even during the worst firefights.†   (source)
  • The brightest Iraqis, it seemed, were usually insurgents, fighting against us.†   (source)
  • The insurgents ran off, and we picked ourselves back up and got going.†   (source)
  • The insurgents had started kidnapping them, trying to disrupt the government.†   (source)
  • A lot of times, the insurgents would hide behind embankments and other barriers, well protected.†   (source)
  • RAMADI WAS INFESTED WITH INSURGENTS, BUT there was a large civilian population.†   (source)
  • The insurgents brought more than just their AKs to a fight.†   (source)
  • But, for some reason, that day the insurgents decided to lie low.†   (source)
  • As soon as the insurgents saw us, they started letting us have it.†   (source)
  • Hell, there were piles of insurgents littering the road.†   (source)
  • Many of the insurgents who'd been run out of Fallujah were said to have holed up there.†   (source)
  • And not just pop shots—the insurgents would use any weapon they had, from AKs to RPGs.†   (source)
  • I ENDED UP GETTING SEVEN INSURGENTS THAT DAY, and more the next.†   (source)
  • The Army commander estimated we got two dozen insurgents in the first twelve hours of the fight.†   (source)
  • The insurgents here were a real mix; some were mujahedeen, former Baath or Iraqi Army guys.†   (source)
  • It appeared that the insurgents had ducked into a nearby house.†   (source)
  • WE NEVER FOUND OUT WHAT THE INSURGENTS WHO slipped past were up to.†   (source)
  • It made sense: the insurgents wanted to attack from a place where they could easily run off.†   (source)
  • A couple of insurgents began moving toward the house as they arrived.†   (source)
  • I waited a second to make sure the insurgents were done firing, then got back up.†   (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)
  • We lit up the rest of the insurgents, killing them all.†   (source)
  • IT WAS ALWAYS HARD TO TELL HOW MANY insurgents were opposing us in a battle like that.†   (source)
  • BY EARLY JUNE, THE ARMY HAD COME UP WITH A plan to take Ramadi back from the insurgents.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, the insurgents kept using mopeds and gathering intelligence.†   (source)
  • It brought a couple of insurgents out and we bagged them.†   (source)
  • We drove out there for a few days hardly seeing a person, let alone insurgents.†   (source)
  • Just as I got on my gun, three insurgents came out right across the street, fifteen yards away.†   (source)
  • Then another six or seven insurgents appeared behind them.†   (source)
  • The insurgents would use the families to put pressure on the officials to drop out.†   (source)
  • Insurgents started feeding into the area and a huge firefight erupted.†   (source)
  • While there was still light, we got a few shots here and there, all on isolated insurgents.†   (source)
  • Pushed from the village and the mosque, the insurgents retreated to the hospital.†   (source)
  • We waited, continuing the firefight and ducking the insurgents' growing spray of bullets.†   (source)
  • Insurgents normally put small rocks in the middle of the road to warn others where we were.†   (source)
  • The Marines put the rest of the insurgents out of their misery.†   (source)
  • I'd seen insurgents follow this same pattern now for years.†   (source)
  • No matter what, there were plenty of insurgents, and plenty of firefights.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, insurgents were sweeping toward it—so close we could hear them.†   (source)
  • One day, intel came in concerning insurgents planting IEDs along a certain highway.†   (source)
  • The Army camp was a clear threat to the insurgents, and they wanted it gone.†   (source)
  • After we began engaging the insurgents, we would become the targets ourselves.†   (source)
  • As soon as his people showed up, they'd draw all sorts of insurgents toward them.†   (source)
  • The Iraqi who'd been inside had clearly escaped to alert the nearby insurgents where we were.†   (source)
  • A few minutes later, what did I see but the four insurgents who'd passed me earlier.†   (source)
  • As the Army reached its objective, the insurgents started to give up.†   (source)
  • As WE BUMPED OUT, THE INSURGENTS WOULD MOVE farther away and try and put more cover between us and them.†   (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)
  • They came over to the side of the roof and watched as the insurgents fought among themselves for the last beach ball.†   (source)
  • THE MARINES BROUGHT IN A FAC (FORWARD AIR controller), to call in air support against the insurgents.†   (source)
  • And they did: village after village, the insurgents would come and try and kill us; we'd take them down.†   (source)
  • One day, a group of three insurgents appeared on the shore upriver, out of range at around 1,600 yards.†   (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)
  • The insurgents were fighting among themselves, their ingenious plan to kill Americans now turned against them.†   (source)
  • In Fallujah, the Marines had worked systematically through the city, chasing and then pushing the insurgents out.†   (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)
  • So we bumped out, fighting the insurgents who were shooting at them, and looking for the mortar crews.†   (source)
  • Our platoon, sixteen guys, teamed up with about twenty soldiers to clear the nearby village of insurgents.†   (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)
  • '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)
  • 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)
  • With covert help from Iran, the insurgents had gathered arms and started launching mortars and rockets into Baghdad's Green Zone.†   (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)
  • But in a way, I didn't mind being attacked—the insurgents were just making it easier for me to kill 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)
  • 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)
  • We knew instantly that the owner was muj—the insurgents were stealing uniforms and using them to disguise themselves in attacks.†   (source)
  • THE GUSTAV TURNED OUT TO BE ONE OF OUR MOST effective weapons when we came up against insurgents shooting from buildings.†   (source)
  • By all accounts, they had grown tired of the insurgents and the chaos they had brought, and wanted them gone.†   (source)
  • And to the north, the Marines were doing their thing, taking areas, holding and clearing them of insurgents.†   (source)
  • The tribal leaders saw that we were bad-asses, and they'd better get their act together, work together, and stop accommodating the 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)
  • 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)
  • Within minutes, half a dozen insurgents stepped out with automatic machine guns and started shooting at my flag.†   (source)
  • Insurgents had been testing the perimeters, sneaking as close as they dared and spraying the base with their AKs.†   (source)
  • I'd see the families of the insurgents display their grief, tear off clothes, even rub the blood on themselves.†   (source)
  • We'd engaged a bunch of insurgents, killing quite a few, and were waiting through a lull in the action.†   (source)
  • I KEPT FINDING SHOTS-THE insurgents were probing the area, one or two at a time, trying to sneak in behind us.†   (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)
  • There were plenty of targets—upward of a hundred insurgents lined the roofs on the surrounding streets, trying to get us.†   (source)
  • There were other insurgents operating in the area, but the Mahdi Army was by far the biggest and most powerful.†   (source)
  • The idea was simple, if potentially risky: we'd make ourselves visible, trying to draw fire from the insurgents.†   (source)
  • IT WAS AN OPEN SECRET THAT THE IRANIANS WERE arming and training insurgents and in some cases even attacking Western troops themselves.†   (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 WAS WATCHING FROM THE ROOF ONE AFTERNOON when a group of roughly sixteen fully armed insurgents emerged from cover.†   (source)
  • Like Fallujah and Ramadi, there were different cliques and varying levels of expertise among the insurgents.†   (source)
  • It was infested with insurgents.†   (source)
  • Our troops were working on a side street on the other side of the roof, and I figured that if the insurgents were going to launch an ambush or try and attack us, they would come down that road.†   (source)
  • Insurgents usually wouldn't attack then, because they knew we had the advantage with our technology, including our night-vision gear and infrared sensors.†   (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)
  • The soldiers on the ground began maneuvering to assault the mosque, hoping to catch the insurgents before they could slide back into whatever sewer they'd emerged from.†   (source)
  • Ryan ran upstairs on the roof of the Marine building, where he joined the Marines trying to lay down support fire for us as we fought off the insurgents.†   (source)
  • ONE DAY, WE GOT INTEL THAT THE INSURGENTS were using a cemetery at the edge of town near Camp Independence at the airport to cache weapons and launch attacks.†   (source)
  • The men I saw looked like mujahedeen—by "all mujed out" I meant they were dressed the way insurgents often did in the countryside, wearing the long man-jammies and scarves.†   (source)
  • Once the house was secure, I'd go up to the roof, cover the guys on the ground, and look for insurgents, who we expected to attack once they knew we were there.†   (source)
  • It was a prime terror target, since the insurgents could pretty much figure that anyone going in or out was related to the Americans or the new Iraqi government in some way.†   (source)
  • We had to return to the area near the river around COP Falcon several times, providing overwatch while the area was searched for caches and insurgents.†   (source)
  • The Iraqi tribal leaders finally realized we meant business, and they finally banded together not just to govern themselves, but to kick the insurgents out.†   (source)
  • Where thirty or forty insurgents would gather with AKs and RPGs to fire on a single fence crew at the beginning of the op, toward the end the bad guys were putting together attacks with two or three men.†   (source)
  • The insurgents had learned a lot about setting them since the beginning of the war, and they tended to be pretty powerful—strong enough to lift a Bradley off the ground, as I'd found out earlier in Baghdad.†   (source)
  • IED-makers and other insurgents had set up shop in a series of villages near Baghdad, trying to operate under the radar as they supplied weapons and manpower to fight Americans and the loyal Iraqi forces.†   (source)
  • Most of the houses we took over belonged to families who at least pretended to be neutral; I'd guess that the majority of them hated the insurgents for causing trouble and would have been even happier than we were to have the bad guys leave.†   (source)
  • No insurgents came.†   (source)
  • 10 the cast, a mile away, was where foreign insurgents had recently arrived.†   (source)
  • These terrorist/insurgents know the rules as well as they did in Iraq.†   (source)
  • Because really, Werner thinks, they are all insurgents, all partisans, every single person they see.†   (source)
  • OUR REAL PROBLEM WAS WITH THE INSURGENTS using the marsh across the river as cover.†   (source)
  • Here, the insurgents were going to come to us.†   (source)
  • In theory, they were supposed to keep insurgents out.†   (source)
  • The insurgents began focusing their fire on me.†   (source)
  • If that's true, in Iraq, the insurgents made it really easy.†   (source)
  • I was trapped, hung up by the insurgents and without my mysteriously disappearing friend.†   (source)
  • The insurgents were one-part terrorists, another-part criminal gangs.†   (source)
  • At some point as I ran, one of the insurgents threw a frag.†   (source)
  • As the nights went on, I realized the number of insurgents was growing.†   (source)
  • He was up on the roof with us one night when we started taking shots from insurgents somewhere.†   (source)
  • OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS, THE INSURGENTS HAD stopped coming out to fight us.†   (source)
  • One time we were in a building and we were hosed down by the insurgents outside.†   (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)
  • A few known insurgents were captured and detained in the operation.†   (source)
  • The insurgents didn't worry about ROEs or court-martials.†   (source)
  • Just beyond it were two insurgents, AKs slung over their shoulders.†   (source)
  • Al-Anabar Province, the area that contained the city, was studded with insurgents of various forms.†   (source)
  • By that fall, pretty much the only people who lived in Fallujah were insurgents.†   (source)
  • The insurgents pulled back, then things stoked up again.†   (source)
  • As he climbed, the insurgents who had lain low during the earlier attack began firing on him.†   (source)
  • In military terms, his offensive failed, but the insurgents remained strong in Sadr City.†   (source)
  • Pretty much the moment the Marines pulled back, the insurgents completely took over Fallujah.†   (source)
  • Eventually, the insurgents might be able to get enough men together that I couldn't kill them all.†   (source)
  • The insurgents in Fallujah would be rooted out and destroyed.†   (source)
  • The insurgents had prevented the sitting of the state supreme court at Springfield.†   (source)
  • The convoy I was in was hit, and I was taken by some insurgents.†   (source)
  • Seventeen terrorists and insurgents were killed that night.†   (source)
  • The average age of the insurgents was seventeen and thousands were killed by police and army.†   (source)
  • My unit fought Zarqawi-backed insurgents in a firefight that lasted almost eight hours.†   (source)
  • My teammates got lucky and got the jump on them before the insurgents reacted.†   (source)
  • I was taken by insurgents and forced to watch some terrible things.†   (source)
  • Awakened by the gunfire, the insurgents at the other compound had also fought to their deaths.†   (source)
  • One of the insurgents screamed "Allahu Akbar!" and started to spray bullets out the window.†   (source)
  • From our position on the roof, we could still hear the insurgents yelling.†   (source)
  • There were lines on the map beyond which the insurgents knew they would not be pursued.†   (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)
  • 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 continued our operations, looking for the key insurgents, forcing or bribing the information out of them.†   (source)
  • Platoons of us went out night after night, trying to halt the insurgents creeping through the mountain passes.†   (source)
  • We found it well to remember those Taliban insurgents were the very same guys who sheltered and supported Osama bin Laden.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Lima was helping fill in holes—taking down pockets of insurgents who had crept in or been bypassed.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, mostly Sunni insurgents took hold of al-Anbar province, a large sector of the country to the west of Baghdad.†   (source)
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