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...soldiers of the Nahal Brigade are aware of just how elusive the enemy can be. In the past three months, the reconnaissance unit has conducted 72 separate operations against terrorist targets. The group is getting faster with each mission. Immediately after receiving the midnight order to pursue the suspect in Nablus, Dan and his lieutenants began planning the raid, phoning nearby units to ask for extra vehicles, grenades and infrared light sticks to operate in the darkness. In a Spartan classroom at the Beit Lid base that functions as the unit's command center, Dan showed his troops magnified aerial...
...reached the edge of the suspect's compound. But then the unit's well-rehearsed plan went awry. One team spotted a man running from the house and sprinted after him, only to lose sight of the figure. Seconds later, another man dashed into the darkness; a soldier gave chase and fired a warning shot in the air, but the man disappeared. Sensing that the unit's cover was now blown, Dan ordered one team to blow open the door to the house and begin clearing it. Speaking in Arabic and using a megaphone, Dan instructed any civilians inside...
...taking mines, anti-tank rounds and other weapons . The unit currently based there, from the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment's 2nd Squadron, is keeping tanks and armored vehicles on the ridge at all hours to guard against more theft. "We shoot anything that moves up here," says one U.S. soldier...
...TIME has confirmed that an attack occurred on Sept. 6 on the ammunition storage facility. One soldier involved in the defense of the area says that the Americans do not know who did it, or how they did it. That same night, the airbase where the U.S. forces are headquartered came under fire, as did another position...
Consider that if such a toll needs be exacted once more, this place will willingly offer up its sons and now its daughters upon the altar of freedom; and our memorial too could be the melancholy statue in Memorial Church, a dead soldier with hands wrapped upon his chest and veritas at his feet...