Sentence examples for convoy operated from inspiring English sources

Those conclusions contradict Blackwater's original statement on the shooting, which said that a convoy operated by the company's guards "acted lawfully and appropriately in response to a hostile attack".

In 2007, a convoy operated by Unity Resources Group, based in Dubai, shot at an approaching vehicle near the Green Zone in Baghdad, wounded a bodyguard for President Jalal Talabani of Iraq and did not report the shooting until Mr. Talabani's staff contacted the American authorities, one report said.

The Sept. 16 episode began when a convoy operated by Blackwater USA, an American private security company hired to protect the aid agency's officials, entered Nisour Square in central Baghdad and fired several bullets toward a car the guards apparently considered a threat.

Both the helicopter and the vehicle involved in the incident at the Assassins' Gate checkpoint were not from the United States military, but were part of a convoy operated by Blackwater Worldwide, the private security contractor that is under scrutiny for its role in a series of violent episodes in Iraq, including a September shooting in downtown Baghdad that left 17 Iraqis dead.

Promoted flying officer, he achieved four "kills" in a single sortie on 12 May 1942, destroying two Junkers Ju 52 cargo planes and two escorting Bf 110s from a German air transport convoy operating between Crete and North Africa.

These convoys were operated by the Honourable East India Company (HEIC), which ran British India and maintained a private army and navy to secure the colony and its trade routes.

KABUL, Afghanistan — American taxpayers have inadvertently created a network of warlords across Afghanistan who are making millions of dollars escorting NATO convoys and operating outside the control of either the Afghan government or the American and NATO militaries, according to the results of a Congressional investigation released Monday.

As French raiders were rare in the Gulf, few country ships operated in convoys and so they became targets for dhows and bhagalas operating from semi or completely independent harbours in Persia or along the Arabian Peninsula.

This would allow trucking companies to operate convoys of transport trucks with much higher efficiency when compared to similar arrangements that rely on human reaction time to do things like keep distance, and deal with unexpected events like personal vehicles cutting in between members of the convoy.

During World War II, he repaired electronics on a Navy destroyer and operated the radio on convoys to Iceland.

For the next few months, she operated in the South Pacific, protecting convoy lanes and supporting operations in the Solomon Islands.