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The video caused outrage in Afghanistan, the Middle East and across the world. [30] [31] An Afghan soldier who shot dead four French troops in Afghanistan and wounded another eight seriously in a fragging incident said that he did it because of the American Marines who urinated on bodies in the video.
The effect is caused by the pyrophoric oxidation of the ablated metal particles. [6] [7] In this way, the Kopp–Etchells effect is similar to the sparks made by a grinder, which are also due to pyrophoricity. [8] When a speck of metal is chipped off the rotor, it is heated by rapid oxidation.
In Iraq in June 2006, two soldiers of the United States Army were abducted and later killed and mutilated by members of the Mujahedeen Shura Council, during a time when military forces of the U.S. and a dozen other countries were conducting military operations in Iraq to "bring order to parts of that country that remain[ed] dangerous". [1]
In the video on the morning of July 12, 2007, the crews of two United States Army AH-64 Apache helicopters observe a gathering of men near a section of Baghdad in the path of advancing U.S. ground troops. [18] [23] The crew estimates the group is twenty men. [24] Among the group are two journalists working for Reuters, Namir Noor-Eldeen and ...
Captain Phillip Esposito and First Lieutenant Louis Allen, from a New York Army National Guard unit of the United States 42nd Infantry Division, were mortally wounded in Esposito's office by a Claymore mine and died. Military investigators determined that the mine was deliberately placed in the window and detonated to kill Esposito and Allen.
In March, nine soldiers were killed when two U.S. Army Black Hawk medical evacuation helicopters crashed during a routine nighttime training exercise about 30 miles (48 kilometers) northeast of ...
On May 11, 2009, five United States military personnel were fatally shot at a military counseling clinic at Camp Liberty, Iraq by Army Sergeant John M. Russell. In the days before the killings, witnesses stated Russell had become distant and was having suicidal thoughts.
A horrific video posted online on Thursday appears to show a Ukrainian prisoner of war being castrated by his Russian captors. While Yahoo News cannot independently verify the authenticity of the ...