In the end, the defenders did not fire a shot before withdrawing and the Australians took the position without suffering a casualty, capturing 12 machine-guns and taking 22 prisoners.
"While people were running for their dear lives...three female suicide bombers attempted to make their way into the crowd...and subsequently got blown up," he said without providing a casualty figure.
Another reason for the high contact rate could be that patients in Norway are not allowed to attend an emergency room without consulting a casualty clinic first, while in other countries there is no selection or assessment before patients attend the emergency room.
The Taliban request that the United States halt the bombings so that negotiations can take place to discuss a turnover of Osama bin Laden (front page, Oct. 16) is a clever ploy to allow him to escape from Afghanistan without fear of being a casualty of American firepower.
We made it through without a single casualty.
One former militia intelligence officer, cooking supper on a hot plate, noted that Israeli troops had completed their pullout without a single casualty.
A total of 512 airmen, most of them Americans, were flown to safety in Army Air Forces transport planes based in Italy without a single casualty or the loss of a plane.
The former leader of the British Liberal Democrats and then a proconsul in Bosnia is right about that, though he might have thought twice before adding that "the alliance has completed its mission in Libya without a single casualty".
The infamous Katz's deli uses this method with puzzling success, apparently achieving a "nice char" on a sizzling hotplate without a single casualty, but if you haven't had years of practice, I wouldn't recommend it.
When Israel captured Beaufort Castle from the Palestinians in 1982, the architect of the invasion, Ariel Sharon, told Israeli reporters that the castle had been taken without a single casualty.
