In one notable case, English soldiers, engaged in a firefight, accidently blew off three fingers of the queen of Niumi's hand, and in 1768, the year after Kunta's deportation, some 500 Niumi troops attempted to storm James Fort.
But Mr. Abu Hein remained inside, and militants from nearby homes unleashed a barrage of automatic rifle fire and rocket-propelled grenades, setting off firefights that persisted for more than 12 hours.
Afghan forces tried to surround the group on Friday and set off a firefight.
And still more recently, in July 2009, local contractors with the 77th Security Company drove into a neighborhood in the northern city of Erbil and began shooting at random, setting off a firefight with an off-duty police officer and wounding three women, another report said.
Gen. Daoud Daoud, the Afghan police commander for the north of the country, said that eight German soldiers were also wounded in the attack, which set off a firefight that lasted more than an hour.
Militants from the Kurdistan Workers Party, or P.K.K., fired on an army unit Monday night, setting off a firefight that was joined by helicopters and land forces and that lasted until morning in the Cukurca area of Hakkari Province.
U.S. Forces in Falluja Make First Big Advance Thousands of American marines and Army soldiers swarmed over a railroad embankment into Falluja, setting off a firefight and making their first major advances into the Sunni rebel-held city.
An American soldier was killed when fighters suspected of being Taliban militants ambushed his patrol on Monday in a remote district of southern Zabul Province, setting off a firefight, the United States military said in a statement.
At the regular briefing in Baghdad, a spokesman for the Coalition Authority said it had happened after American soldiers had caught a small group of men trying to cross the border illegally, setting off a firefight.
A second American soldier in two days was killed in Kunar Province when two improvised bombs exploded, setting off a firefight between American and enemy forces, said Maj. Mark McCann, a spokesman for the coalition.
