Word: commandoes
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...week centered on the ongoing battle for control of Khorramshahr, portions of which changed hands several times. Iraqi armor and infantry had previously failed in repeated attempts to dislodge Iranian urban guerrilla units, which had destroyed a large number of Baghdad's tanks with Molotov cocktails. However, Iraqi commando units then succeeded in capturing most of the port area and in repelling a series of savage counterattacks by Iranian regulars and militiamen. Reported an Iranian journalist who witnessed one of the battles: "The carnage was unbelievable. The plains around the city were strewn with corpses." By Saturday the Iraqis...
...home when the two gunmen struck. They pumped six bullets into him and sped away on a motor scooter. Di Leo died instantly. Within an hour, the neo-Fascist Armed Revolutionary Nuclei (NAR) claimed responsibility for the killing -and even phoned // Messaggero to brag about it. "This evening our commando executed Concina..." the caller began. "No, you son of a bitch," shouted the switchboard operator in tears. "You didn't kill Concina. You murdered someone else." While Maurizio Di Leo lay dead in the street last week, // Messaggero Reporter Michele Concina, author of several exposes...
...fierce bands of Muslim rebels armed with rifles. Now the Soviets have decided to meet the insurgent mujahidin-holy warriors-more nearly on their own terms: guerrilla style. Under a new strategy disclosed last week, the Soviets have divided Afghanistan into seven sectors, each under a Soviet-led commando force. The new plan reportedly calls for the recruitment of highly paid Afghan tribesmen who are to act, in effect, as "enforcers" against the harboring of rebels in tribal villages. There are also signs that the Soviets may be preparing to starve out sympathetic villagers by destroying their crops...
Sadat, however, may have regarded the timing of the measure as a violation of the Camp David spirit. In addition the Egyptians are angry over Israel's tough security clampdown on the West Bank following a Palestinian commando assault on Jewish settlers in Hebron in which six Israelis were killed. And like many other governments, Egypt is both irritated and confounded by Israel's determination to press ahead with the establishment of new Jewish settlements in the occupied territories. Plans for two additional settlements in the northern portion of the West Bank were announced last week...
...rescue the American hostages in Tehran. Beckwith was dispatched for training to S.A.S. headquarters in Hereford in 1962, before embarking on a tour of duty in Viet Nam. After the war, he drew on the skills and methods he had learned from the S.A.S. when forming his own commando team of "Charlie's Angels." "Charlie was the best that any army could produce," says an S.A.S. officer. "The difference is that we were operating in our own backyard. He was operating over thousands of miles. Lady Luck was with us, she let him down...