All 13 Uses
insurgent
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Lone Survivor
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- And when we found him, we scarcely knew who he was — al Qaeda or Taliban, Shiite or Sunni, Iraqi or foreign, a freedom fighter for Saddam or an insurgent fighting for some kind of a different god from our own, a god who somehow sanctioned murder of innocent civilians, a god who'd effectively booted the Ten Commandments over the touchline and out of play.†
Chpt 1.
- Although I admit in my first week in Iraq we were subject to...well...a minor lapse in judgment after we found an Iraqi insurgent ammunition dump during a patrol along a river as sporadic shots were fired at us from the other side.†
Chpt 1.
- That was really where we were blooded for battle, combing those urban streets, flushing out insurgents wherever they hid.†
Chpt 1. *insurgents = members of an irregular armed force that fight a stronger force by sabotage and harassment
- 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.†
Chpt 1.
- We continued our operations, looking for the key insurgents, forcing or bribing the information out of them.†
Chpt 1.
- 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).†
Chpt 1.
- I promise you, every insurgent, freedom fighter, and stray gunman in Iraq who we arrested knew the ropes, knew that the way out was to announce he had been tortured by the Americans, ill treated, or prevented from reading the Koran or eating his breakfast or watching the television.†
Chpt 1.
- Everyone's heard it, like insurgent, Sunni, ayatollah, or Taiwan.†
Chpt 2.
- We found it well to remember those Taliban insurgents were the very same guys who sheltered and supported Osama bin Laden.†
Chpt 6.insurgents = members of an irregular armed force that fight a stronger force by sabotage and harassment
- These terrorist/insurgents know the rules as well as they did in Iraq.†
Chpt 6.
- The truth is, in this kind of terrorist/insurgent warfare, no one can tell who's a civilian and who's not.†
Chpt 6.
- 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?†
Chpt 6.insurgents = members of an irregular armed force that fight a stronger force by sabotage and harassment
- Platoons of us went out night after night, trying to halt the insurgents creeping through the mountain passes.†
Chpt 6.
Definitions:
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(1)
(insurgent) a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, Insurgent is used as an adjective to indicate rebelliousness.