All 50 Uses of "insurgent" in "American Sniper" - Auto-generated

Along the way, they began encountering the sort of fanatical insurgency that would characterize the war after Baghdad fell.†

p. 93.5 *

If that's true, in Iraq, the insurgents made it really easy.†

p. 98.6

insurgents = members of an irregular armed force that fight a stronger force by sabotage and harassment

Many of the insurgents were cowards.†

p. 98.9

The insurgents didn't worry about ROEs or court-martials.†

p. 99.2

The Marines were going into Nasiriya every night, trying to clear the place out as the insurgency stoked up.†

p. 103.5

I'm sure there were a hell of a lot of others in what came to be known to the media as "the insurgency."†

p. 136.7

But the insurgency grew tremendously that same year.†

p. 137.1

In military terms, his offensive failed, but the insurgents remained strong in Sadr City.†

p. 138.3

insurgents = members of an irregular armed force that fight a stronger force by sabotage and harassment

Meanwhile, mostly Sunni insurgents took hold of al-Anbar province, a large sector of the country to the west of Baghdad.†

p. 138.4

In theory, they were supposed to keep insurgents out.†

p. 138.8

By that fall, pretty much the only people who lived in Fallujah were insurgents.†

p. 138.9

While the insurgents were active in the Baghdad area, the fighting had slowed down and there wasn't yet the huge threat of IEDs and ambushes that you saw elsewhere.†

p. 139.6

We picked up a pretty wide variety of suspects—financiers for al-Qaeda, bomb-makers, insurgents, foreign insurgents—one time we picked up a truckload of them.†

p. 141.6

We picked up a pretty wide variety of suspects—financiers for al-Qaeda, bomb-makers, insurgents, foreign insurgents—one time we picked up a truckload of them.†

p. 141.7

Political considerations, mostly driven by wildly distorted media reports and a lot of Arab propaganda, caused the Marines to back off their offensive soon after it was begun, and well before it achieved its aim of kicking the insurgents out of the city.†

p. 150.4

Pretty much the moment the Marines pulled back, the insurgents completely took over Fallujah.†

p. 150.6

Civilians who were not connected with the insurgency were killed, or fled the city.†

p. 150.6

Al-Anabar Province, the area that contained the city, was studded with insurgents of various forms.†

p. 150.8

insurgents = members of an irregular armed force that fight a stronger force by sabotage and harassment

The insurgents were one-part terrorists, another-part criminal gangs.†

p. 151.1

WHILE USING FALLUJAH AS A BASE TO ATTACK THE surrounding area and Baghdad, the insurgents spent considerable time fortifying the city so they could withstand another attack.†

p. 152.1

"Rat holes" were created in compound walls, allowing insurgents to move from one house to another, avoiding streets.†

p. 152.3

Many if not all of the two hundred mosques in the city became fortified bunkers, since the insurgents knew that Americans respected houses of worship as sacred and therefore were reluctant to attack there.†

p. 152.4

A hospital was turned into an insurgent headquarters and used as a base of operations for the insurgents' propaganda machine.†

p. 152.5

A hospital was turned into an insurgent headquarters and used as a base of operations for the insurgents' propaganda machine.†

p. 152.5

insurgents = members of an irregular armed force that fight a stronger force by sabotage and harassment

In fact, the insurgents were confident enough to regularly launch rocket attacks against U.S. bases in the area and ambush convoys moving on the main roads.†

p. 152.6

The insurgents in Fallujah would be rooted out and destroyed.†

p. 152.8

The Marines spent several weeks getting ready for the assault, launching a variety of operations to throw the insurgents off-balance.†

p. 153.1

There was no resistance inside—if there were insurgents, they'd either gotten out when they saw us coming, or they pretended now that they were loyal Iraqis and friends of the U.S. THE MARINES ENDED UP MOVING ABOUT 250 civilians from the complex, a fraction of what they had been told to expect.†

p. 158.1

A few known insurgents were captured and detained in the operation.†

p. 158.6

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.†

p. 162.1

Insurgents would move into that area, trying to get into position to attack or maybe spy on the Marines.†

p. 163.2

Another company would come in behind them, securing the area and making sure that none of the insurgents snuck back in behind them.†

p. 164.6

There were always nooks and crannies for insurgents to hide in.†

p. 164.8

It gave us a better position, allowing us to surprise any insurgents who tried rallying to the ground unit.†

p. 165.7

At one house, Marines found dive tanks—apparently the insurgent who had been staying at the house used them to sneak across the river and make an attack.†

p. 167.7

A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE WRITTEN ABOUT THE battles in Fallujah mention how fanatical the insurgents were.†

p. 168.1

insurgents = members of an irregular armed force that fight a stronger force by sabotage and harassment

Just beyond it were two insurgents, AKs slung over their shoulders.†

p. 169.1

The insurgents pulled back, then things stoked up again.†

p. 170.2

But there were times when it wasn't exactly clear, when a person almost surely was an insurgent, probably was doing evil, but there was still some doubt because of the circumstances or the surroundings—the way he moved, for example, wasn't toward an area where troops were.†

p. 171.1

As he climbed, the insurgents who had lain low during the earlier attack began firing on him.†

p. 172.3

insurgents = members of an irregular armed force that fight a stronger force by sabotage and harassment

NOT LONG AFTERWARD, A GUY I'LL CALL RUNAWAY and I were on the street when we had contact with Iraqi insurgents.†

p. 172.7

I was trapped, hung up by the insurgents and without my mysteriously disappearing friend.†

p. 173.5

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.†

p. 174.4

We started down an alley in the direction of the insurgents, but after a short distance we came to obstructions we couldn't get around, and we reversed course.†

p. 174.9

Just as I came around the corner back out onto the main street, there was an explosion behind me—an insurgent had seen us coming and tossed a grenade.†

p. 175.1

Meanwhile, I took the rest of the Marines and continued down the road in the direction of the insurgents' stronghold.†

p. 175.3

insurgents = members of an irregular armed force that fight a stronger force by sabotage and harassment

The insurgents began focusing their fire on me.†

p. 176.1

At some point as I ran, one of the insurgents threw a frag.†

p. 176.9

OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS, THE INSURGENTS HAD stopped coming out to fight us.†

p. 182.1

The entire invasion force moved across the city in choreographed order, making sure there were no holes or weak spots the insurgents could use to get behind us and attack.†

p. 186.5

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