As part of an operation to break down the resistance in and around Balad, Mr. Sepi and his unit had been given a nightly list of targets for capture.
BAGHDAD — Heavy fighting broke out Tuesday in two of Iraq's largest cities, as Iraqi ground forces and helicopters mounted a huge operation to break the grip of the Shiite militias controlling Basra, and Iraqi forces clashed with militias in Baghdad.
Last week, a 65-year-old man who walked with a cane died after receiving head injuries during a violent police operation to break up a demonstration of radical teachers in the resort city of Acapulco.
As a squadron leader during the Airlift, a 14-month Nato operation to break the Soviet blockade of the German city, he saw at first hand the hazard of undercarriages buckling beneath the strain of short, frequent flights heavily loaded with supplies of food or fuel.
Ever since the Vietnam War, United States military doctrine has called for unrelenting operations in the hope of breaking the enemy's resistance.
Israel destroyed the tunnel, killing six Hamas militants in the operation, leading Hamas to accuse it of breaking the truce.
He was plagued by health problems as well, undergoing a series of operations after breaking his neck in a fall in 2007.
Tidemark as a company has had the goal of breaking down traditional barriers between finance and operations, Gheorghe said.
And fund-raising, the heart of any party operation, is breaking records.
Kew Gardens will remain closed on Tuesday to allow the clean-up operation of "a significant number of broken branches" to continue, a spokesperson said.
Those operations succeeded in breaking through the German lines and threatened the whole southern part of the German front.
