11. The misery of the troops of both sides, clinging to their wretched holes in the corpse-reeking mud, multiplied. 12. Behind them the massed troops of the Caliph, their battle cries rising and falling like a demoniac chorus. 13. As long as it has no troops of its own, the UN cannot be a peacemaker or even a peacekeeper. 14. At one point, Israeli troops of the same age drove among the protestors dropping tear gas and concussion grenades. 15. At the Aguas Blancas river crossing, the trucks were halted by a troop of state police, who ordered the peasants out of the trucks. 16. Because of several reported incidents like these, Afghan villagers accuse American bombers and Special Operations troops of being careless in their choice of targets. 17. Between stories, he would point out soaring African fish eagles or herds of grazing impala or troops of baboons lounging along the bank. 18. Both rebels and Chechen civilians widely accuse Russian troops of kidnapping and imprisoning local residents, some of whom are later ransomed and some of whom simply disappear. 19. A crush of chanting demonstrators pressed past, closely followed by a troop of TV crews. 20. A few ethnic Albanians ventured out this day because the French peacekeeping troops of NATO rolled in Thursday morning in the push to secure all of Kosovo. |