Although the U.S. won any number of individual firefights, Washington could not resolve the larger political struggle.
Sometimes, I got into a tight firefight where I couldn't hit a terrorist a few feet in front of me.
French soldiers patrolling nearby came upon a German field hospital; Fournier's men joined the firefight that followed.The few who escaped the battle could not say what had happened to the lieutenant.
The pathologist expressed the opinion that, given the particular location of the head wound that Peralta received at the start of the firefight, he would have been cognitively disabled and could not deliberately have brought the grenade in toward his body.
The attack was not a running eight-hour firefight as some critics have contended, questioning how an adequate response could not be mustered in that time, but rather two relatively short, intense assaults separated by a lull of four hours.
Sporadic firefights continued in Tripoli, a sign that control of the city could not be claimed by either side.
When the gun battle with Shabab fighters erupted, not only was the element of surprise lost, but the mission commander also feared that a prolonged firefight could kill large numbers of civilians.
Greenwald noted, for instance, that a firefight somewhere else would not justify the attacks portrayed in the video, and that those killed in an apparent attempt to retrieve some of the victims could not plausibly be considered as posing a threat to U.S. forces.
I returned to base with the rest of the patrol, enjoyed some back slaps all round, and couldn't wait for the next firefight.
But he told us about how they had fought, how he had found Qaddafi after a wild firefight in Sirte, and how he had beaten Qaddafi until he couldn't feel his fists.
