Back at the frontline, first lieutenant Osman said morale was high among his men, who were posted along sandbagged embrasures or who sheltered under tarpaulins from the afternoon sun.
Now it has been rebuilt with stout sandbagged fortifications and artillery for protection.In a bloody year that has seen more Western soldiers killed than at any time since they toppled the Taliban in 2001, Operation Attal, which lasted three weeks, was uneventful.
A black swan is an event that you do not expect that could shatter the markets.Even if "waiting to be sandbagged by events" works most of the time, it is not a strong investment policy.
The army has sandbagged defensive positions at street corners in the rebellious district of Bab Sbaa, a mainly Sunni quarter that abuts one dominated by the minority Alawite sect, to which President Bashar Assad's family belongs.
Last week, Germany sandbagged the secretary of state when it said it would not vote for war on Iraq at any price.
Officials speak of sporadic "terrorist" attacks on sandbagged checkpoints.
The investor will underperform the benchmark and lose clients.Staying fully invested, and waiting to get sandbagged by events, makes more business sense.
Sandbagged machinegun nests protect peacekeepers from the African Union (AU).
They dug trenches across Baghdad and built hundreds, possibly thousands, of sandbagged positions.
If the man from the bank came to take my house, it would not not cheer me up to hear that my neighbor had been sandbagged by events too.Eric Deichmann Boston, Massachusetts.
Sandbagged security posts have begun to appear in Islamabad, Pakistan's well-kept capital.
