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Then, without waiting for orders, 500 Iranian Islamic Guards and militiamen leaped out of their trenches swinging West German G3 and Soviet Kalashnikov rifles and Soviet antitank rocket launchers. Screaming "Allahu Akbar!" (God is great), they charged the advancing Iraqis and were quickly locked in savage hand-to-hand combat...
Even so, the Islamic Guards and militiamen suffered more than 100 casualties in the fighting. The Iraqis sustained far fewer losses, but the frenzied Iranian charge evidently confused them. Within an hour of their initial attack, the Iraqis fell back. Surveying the carnage, a frustrated Iranian army captain said, "This...
That bizarre border battle two weeks ago was characteristic of the brand of bloody warfare the Iranians have been waging, with growing success, in an 18-month-old holy war against their Iraqi invaders. By combining conventional infantry and artillery tactics with suicidal attacks by fanatic Islamic Guards and irregulars...
Meanwhile, the Tehran government has continued to throw tens of thousands of ill-trained but fanatically loyal Islamic Guards and volunteers against the beleaguered Iraqi forces. Evidently helpless to reverse the course of an unpopular war, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has indicated his readiness to negotiate withdrawal of his troops...
Following the Danzig exhibit, the museum is planning an exhibit for next fall of early photographs of the Near East, and an exhibit on early Islamic inscriptions from the 8th and 9th centuries to open in January 1983