As in real life, though, troops were dodging gunfire.
Though troops do not pay to use computers in the M.W.R., they do pay for the phone calls.
In any case, though, troops are already departing, and military planners are carefully calculating how to extricate the equipment smoothly.
Though troops would have been exposed to low levels of the agent, the authors assert that the exposures may have continued for several days, increasing their impact.
But, though troops sealed off the premises to concentrate minds, it appears that a political deal to the impasse was no nearer.
Though troops had sporadically raided this area of northern Gaza for months, they had been stationed here for only about 35 days, residents said.
Israel has been mostly calm since the war in Iraq began March 20, though troops and Palestinians clash daily in the West Bank and Gaza.
Some observers also refuse to call the massacre of July 8 a massacre, though troops sprayed participants in a sit-in with machine-gun fire, killing 55 people and injuring hundreds of others who were protesting the coup against Mohammed Morsi.
Most of the hangars, the traffic control tower and the main terminal remained largely unscathed, though troops had not yet checked to see if the terminal was cleared of all Iraqi troops.
Though troops are equipped with chemical suits, trained in the basics of chemical defense and inoculated against certain biotoxins, not even the most seasoned officers have any battlefield experience with chemical or biological weapons.
