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Two Threads About Ambushes

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4, 2007 – Coalition and Afghan troops repelled two Taliban-led ambushes in Afghanistan recently, killing an unknown number of enemy fighters, military officials said. Afghan national security forces and coalition forces thwarted an insurgent ambush yesterday during a combat patrol in the Musa Qaleh Wadi region of Helmand province. Taliban fighters fired on the patrol with small-arms fire, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars from a trench line, military officials said. The combined force repelled the initial attack with small arms and crew served weapons. As the insurgents reinforced positions with additional fighters, the ground force commander requested coalition close...

Gunman Ambushes Detroit Armored Car Crew Thursday February 19, 2004 1:01 AM DETROIT (AP) - A gunman in a black ski mask ambushed the crew of an armored car as they loaded cash from a bank ATM Wednesday, killing one guard and critically wounding another. The gunman apparently fled without any money, police said. The gunman walked around a corner of the Comerica Bank branch where three guards had parked their truck and opened fire with a rifle, said police spokesman Derek Jones. He fled in a white van, Jones said. Police later found the van and an empty money...

Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's counterattack strategy has emerged as a mix of guerrilla ambushes, ballistic-missile attacks, and booby traps and human shields placed around critical targets such as Baghdad's state-run television station. Iraq has not launched a single jet fighter since the war began March 19. Its surface-to-air missile batteries sit mainly silent. No Republican Guard unit has moved from the capital's shadow to confront the ground force approaching from the south.Instead, Saddam's regime deployed thousands of paramilitary troops to southern Iraq to fight in Basra, Umm Qasr and Nasiriyah as many regular army soldiers waved the white flag and...