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The commandos might take part in an amphibious or aerial assault on southern Iraq or in urban fighting.
ECONOMIST: Britain sends in the Rats
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Troops had expected to encounter heavy urban fighting in their push to clear the city of insurgents before elections in January.
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But British troops have been drawn into urban fighting because they are firing their biggest guns - AS 90 artillery - straight into the centre of Basra and also to targets on the outskirts.
BBC: Basra civilians in firing line
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Lloyd said that when he and writer Moore created the character of V they had a basic idea of an urban guerrilla fighting a fascist dictatorship but wanted to inject more theatricality into the story.
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During the second Palestinian intifada from 2000 to 2005, Oren says the military moved away form its focus on full-blown combat in favor of confronting low intensity, urban guerilla fighting which worked in the West Bank cities of Nablus and Jenin but was dramatically less successful against the better armed Hezbollah fighters.
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Such deaths happen in every instance of urban warfare, from the post-Normandy fighting in the villages of France in World War II to the more recent NATO bombing of Serbia.
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Inescapable pockets of poverty, urban and rural, where young adults are still fighting for their first job.
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That group includes Grassley's fellow Iowan Rep. Bruce Braley, who is part of a group of House Democrats fighting for a fix in disparities in how Medicare reimburses rural and urban health care providers.
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In Libya, enforcing the no-fly zone along the coastal strip where much of the fighting took place was relatively straightforward for NATO -- compared to the many urban and rural battlefields that dot Syria.
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Until recently, they concentrated on poor urban Muslims--until that community showed, in the early 1990s, that it was capable of fighting back.
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