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The cordon and search went through 2, 400 apartments, 53 additional buildings and seized: more than 220 AK-47 assault rifles, along with a number of machine guns, pistols and other rifles ; five rocket propelled grenades and 15 RPG sights ; 10 grenades ; 12 mortar sights ; various electrical components associated with improvised explosive devise construction ; Russian-made night vision devices ; protective masks ; 24 plates of body armor and a U. S .- made vest ; Saddam Hussein paraphernalia ; and 16 cases of U. S. military meals, ready to eat.
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Operation Bulldog Mammoth was a brigade-sized cordon and search of an Abu Ghurayb apartment complex, northwest of Baghdad on December 4, 2003 during the American-led 2003 invasion of Iraq.
This unusual brigade-sized cordon and search was led by the US Army ’ s 1st Armored Div., 3rd Brigade Combat Team and was supported by the US Army ’ s 82nd Airborne Division, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, more than 300 Iraqi Civil Defense Corps personnel and an Estonian army platoon.
This is more likely to be used by commercial, scientific or public service divers to cordon off a work or search area, or an accident or crime scene.
Although some humanitarian operations were included in what was intended to be a “ carrot and stick ” strategy, the cordon and search operations are widely criticized for being far too blunt and not carefully targeted.
1 RAR was subsequently tasked with defending a fire support and logistic base established in the Courtenay rubber plantation and later conducted a cordon and search of the village of Binh Ba.
5 RAR then began operations to secure Route 2 and open the northern sector of province, conducting a cordon and search of Duc My on 19 – 20 July in preparation for the later clearance of Binh Ba, and this resulted in fleeting contact over the next few days.
In early August Jackson directed Warr to continue operations along Route 2, including the cordon and search of Binh Ba which had been postponed due to the unexpected events of late July.
Warr in particular considered cordon and search operations vital for the pacification of Phuoc Tuy, arguing that they were the only way of neutralising the communist infrastructure and were an essential first step in defeating the Viet Cong main forces.
In the months that followed 1 ATF conducted a number of search and destroy, village cordon and search, and route security operations in an attempt to further extend its control, and to separate the local people from the influence of the Viet Cong.
Such operations usually resulted in contacts between the Australians and small groups of Viet Cong, while during cordon and search operations of Binh Ba and Hoa Long a number of villagers suspected of sympathising with the communists were apprehended and handed over to the South Vietnamese authorities.
Assessing that 1 ATF did not have the strength to destroy the Viet Cong forces then in Phuoc Tuy with just two infantry battalions, he favoured cordon and search operations to eliminate the cadres and block the supply of rice from the villages.
Two days later 5 RAR conducted a cordon and search of the village of Binh Ba, screening 1, 500 villagers and interrogating 591.
In the following months 5 RAR continued to develop cordon and search procedures as 1 ATF extended its influence, with such operations weakening the Viet Cong infrastructure and removing a number of villages from their control.
In February 1967 1 ATF focused on the Dat Do area and the south-east of Phuoc Tuy, initiating a program of conventional operations and pacification, with 5 RAR concentrating on cordon and search and civic action against the village cadres, while 6 RAR was tasked with search and destroy missions targeting D445 Battalion.
On 13 – 14 February 5 RAR completed a cordon and search of An Nhut, just west of Dat Do, with South Vietnamese forces, apprehending 14 Viet Cong suspects, five Viet sympathisers, two ARVN deserters and a draft dodger.
Deploying the Ituri brigade conducting cordon and search operations improved the security conditions in Ituri, but at the same time the peacekeepers became the target of the militias.
On 1 March 2005, a vast cordon and search operation in Ituri was conducted by Nepalese, Pakistani and South African Infantry elements with the support of Indian attack helicopters, between 50 and 60 militiamen were killed.
Travis Morrone, Company A, 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, carries an arm load of AK-47 assault rifles confiscated during a cordon and search of an apartment complex in Abu Ghurayb, Iraq Dec. 4.
Soldiers assigned to Scout Platoon, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 36th Infantry Regiment, 1st Armored Division, wait to begin a cordon and search of a Baghdad area hostile to coalition forces as part of Operation Iron Hammer.
An iconic image of Australian soldiers from 7th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment | 7 RAR waiting to be picked up by UH-1 Iroquois helicopters following a routine cordon and search operation.
The Guards formation is also called upon to react to counter-terrorism operations such as the 2008 Mas Selamat escape, in which the Guards Battalion was activated to cordon and assist in the search for the fugitive suspect.
During the deployment, the battalion conducted numerous combat patrols, cordon and searches, and search and attacks.
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Howells went to Hornsey College of Art, which now is Middlesex University, where he was active in the famous May 1968 student occupation, and was the first protester to breach the Metropolitan Police cordon at the demonstration against the Vietnam War outside the US Embassy in Grosvenor Square in 1968.
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* 1826 – French philhellene Charles Nicolas Fabvier forces his way through the Turkish cordon and ascends the Acropolis of Athens, which had been under siege.
Some fans tried to break through the cordon to ferry injured fans to waiting ambulances but were forcibly turned back.
Separately, the 114th Division, followed by the 6th Division, burst through the cordon lines of the Chinese 88th Division and 74th Corps and took over Lishui and Molingguan by December 4, and pushed to the area of Lulangzhen and Jiangningzhen.
13 Viet Cong battalions, however, managed to slip through the cordon and once again plunged the capital into chaos.
At 3: 30pm about 200 of the rebel Māori emerged in one tight group and, taking the troops by surprise, broke through the cordon surrounding them and escaped in small groups into the bush via the swampy valley.
At Lancaster Park, Christchurch, on 15 August, some protesters managed to break through a security cordon and a number managed to invade the pitch.
A cordon round the area to be searched is first established either by troops or aircraft and the inhabitants are warned that anybody trying to break through the cordon is likely to be shot.
The term slips is also used to refer to the area of the field where the slip cordon stands, or n < sup > th </ sup > slip used specifically to refer to one slip fielder's position ; e. g. a ball may be described as being edged through third slip if it goes where a third slip would otherwise have been.
Thus shut up in a narrow street, some sought refuge in the collegiate mosque Barkukia, while the remainder fought their way through the encircling cordon, abandoned their horses, and escaped over the city-wall on foot.
The Metropolitan Police set up a cordon around the area that disrupted traffic through some of East London for several days.
* Thursday 6 September: The protest was peaceful but very noisy as protesters used air horns ( klaxons ), blew whistles, and banged metal bin lids as the children passed through the security cordon.
* Friday 7 September: Loyalists held a silent protest as children and parents passed through the security cordon.
Most other parties have continued the cordon sanitaire which was originally agreed on against the former party, effectively blocking the Vlaams Belang from any executive power, and attempts on cutting public subsidies specifically for the party were made through the Belgian draining law.
After warning Marie and his two children, Jamie and Alyssa, to proceed immediately towards their safe house, he slips through the CIA cordon and makes his way to an independent agent who was talking to Alex Conklin when he was killed.
You must break through the invaders ' cordon.
Aguinaldo slipped through the Spanish cordon and, with 500 picked men, proceeded to Biak-na-Bató, a wilderness area at the tri-boundaries of the towns of San Miguel, San Ildefonso and Doña Remedios in Bulacan.
Moray stayed for a time inside, and, suddenly dashing out, he broke through the cordon surrounding the house, and made for the rocks on the seashore.
Photos show Gately moving through the crowd, possibly trying to escape from the tight press of bodies during the pushing at the police cordon.
Another incident occurred in Dublin when he shot his way out through a British military cordon in the northern suburb of Drumcondra ( Fernside ) in which he and volunteer Seán Treacy escaped only for Treacy to be killed soon after.
Using ships supplied at great cost by the Mossad Le ' aliyah Bet, then the immigration arm of the Yishuv, these refugees were then smuggled through the British cordon around Palestine. Bricha was part of the larger operation known as Aliyah Bet, and ended with the establishment of Israel, after which immigration to the Jewish state was legal, although emigration was still sometimes prohibited, as happened in both the Eastern Bloc and Arab countries, see, for example refusenik.
The attempt to get through the police cordon through white overall tactics failed when the front white overalls were severely beaten while they themselves did not hit the police.
While over 5, 000 men managed to break through the Soviet cordon, only 785 finally were able to reach German lines.
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