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	Special Operations.Com
		The Regiment’s role in the aspect of operations was primarily the infiltration and exfiltration of Delta and SAS teams throughout the western desert.
		The ground team was reportedly conducting counterforce operations when one of the team was injured in a fall from a cliff and required medevac, to which the 160th responded.
		In the unique case of Desert Storm, however, the significance of the use of Special Operations Forces by the Coalition was not in the actual results achieved, but rather simply by their employment.
	www.specialoperations.com /Focus/SCUD_Hunt/default.htm (12387 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A statement from Bagram Air Base said Operation Desert Lion was launched Thursday with an air assault in the Kohe Safi mountains.
		Operation Desert Lion was being conducted simultaneously with another offensive in the southern mountains, Operation Valiant Strike, now in its second week.
		Military spokesmen have said operations in Afghanistan were not linked to events in Iraq.
	www.navytimes.com /print.php?f=1-292925-1717012.php (200 words)

	Desert Rat Tank Battle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The operation followed Operation Valiant Strike, a similar mission in the mountains near Kandahar in the southeast.
		Desert Lion has so far succeeded in destroying two caches of weapons, including 107mm rockets, mortar rounds and machine gun ammunition.
		The airport was operating while a ground radar system was broken and lights and signs along the taxiways were insufficient.
	www.kumawar.com /desertrats/globalheadlines.php (953 words)

	[No title]
		The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is a world-renowned zoo, natural history museum and botanical garden, all in one place.
		Most visitors spend between 2 and 3 hours touring the Desert Museum, but as the Museum continues to grow, it is becoming harder and harder to "see it all" in such a short amount of time.
		The Desert Museum is primarily an outdoor experience, so wear a hat, sunscreen and comfortable shoes, or appropriate colder weather gear.
	www.desertmuseum.org /about/faq.html (896 words)

	Military History Online
		Typical of operations in the Third Reich part of the work was undertaken by Organization Todt, part by the Army, part by the Air Force and part by the Navy with no coordination of effort.
		In World War II the Germans were notorious for operating on a shoestring and early on frequently succeeded due to the shock value of Blitzkrieg.
		Operations were constrained by logistic concerns and senior leaders were frequently criticized for tentative strategic movements and failing to respond quickly to fleeting tactical opportunities.
	www.militaryhistoryonline.com /wwii/articles/sealionvsoverlord.aspx (5587 words)

	Navy League of the United States - Citizens in Support of the Sea Services
		The real-time imagery was transmitted to the operational commanders coordinating U.S. Air Force B-52 and fighter strikes on the caves along the rugged mountain sides.
		The mountain-warfare operations required extra vigilance on the part of the P-3 crews, who had to avoid collisions with the high terrain while at the same time maintaining the prescribed safe standoff distances from enemy air defenses.
		During Operation Desert Lion, P-3s supported air assaults by the 505th Army Parachute Regiment in the mountains of northeastern Afghanistan, where a number of enemy guerrillas were killed and large caches of weapons were found.
	www.navyleague.org /sea_power/jun_03_35.php (1832 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| South Asia \| US steps up Afghan operations
		US spokesman Colonel Roger King said Operation Desert Lion began on Thursday with an aerial operation between the capital, Kabul and the US air base at Bagram.
		Both operations are aimed at remnants of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network, the Taleban and their supporters.
		US officers deny the operation was timed to coincide with the US-led attack on Iraq.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/2894913.stm (324 words)

	"The Lion" by Evgeny Zamyatin - from SovLit.com
		The lion was a student at Leningrad University, and also served as an extra at the ballet theatre.
		In today's performance, dressed in a lion skin, he was supposed to stand on a cliff and wait until he is cut down by a spear thrown by the heroine of the ballet.
		The Lion Petya Zherebyakin performed in the lion skin as if he were born not in a Ryazan village, but in the Libyan desert.
	www.sovlit.com /rasskazy/lion.html (3185 words)

	Terrorism - Action Update Archive
		Given the fluid nature of the conflict and operational security constraints, these updates draw on occasionally unconfirmed and incomplete press reports, as well as official information that is by necessity guarded.
		Operation Unified Resolve to tactically isolate, inhibit mobility of, and capture what they believe to be al Qaeda and Taliban forces in the area.
		The operation was part of a larger effort to hunt down suspected weapons caches of al Qaeda and Taliban rebels, particularly, in the southern and eastern parts of the country.
	www.cdi.org /terrorism/actionupdate-archive-pr.cfm (8698 words)

	John Paul Jones Naval Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The BLACK LIONS were awarded the prestigious 'Boola Boola' award in March 1989 for their aggressive and professional completion of all scheduled missile firings.
		The Fighting BLACK LIONS of VF-213 are committed to adding further chapter to a history marked by achievement and excellence.
		The BLACK LIONS are proud to be a part of a world renowned air wing aboard the finest ship in the U.S. Navy and stand forever vigilant against any threat to the way of life we honor and cherish.
	www.richmond.edu /~jjones/personal/blcklion.htm (588 words)

	Foreign Policy In Focus Policy Report: The Forgotten War Shows No Sign of Abating
		On March 20, 2003, the Pentagon launched a major operation with more than 1,000 coalition troops in the villages and caves of southern Kandahar province, where troops loyal to the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and Hekmatyar's Hizb-I-Islami party were thought to be operating.
		Lieutenant General Dan K. McNeil, the commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan, affirmed that one of the primary purposes of the operation, dubbed Valiant Strike, was to disrupt the plans and capability of spoiler groups to regroup and launch a spring offensive.
		Taken together with the decisions of numerous UN agencies and NGOs to suspend operations in the North of the country due to continuing factional clashes between the militias of Gen. Rashid Dostum and Gen. Atta Mohammed, the reconstruction and development process has become increasingly paralyzed in large parts of the country.
	www.fpif.org /papers/afghan2003_body.html (2503 words)

	Operation Iraqi Freedom and the Future of the U.S. Military (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Dozens of small special operations teams disrupted Iraqi command and control, seized oil infrastructure, prevented dams from being demolished, and took hold of airfields in regions where Scud missiles might have been launched at Israel.
		Special operations and intelligence units also appear to have disrupted Iraqi lines of communication in Baghdad and elsewhere, perhaps hastening the collapse of Iraqi forces once the urban fights began.
		In the war's first 10 days, it was not clear that coalition ground forces could sufficiently protect their flanks in areas that they preferred not to seize.
	www.brookings.edu /views/op-ed/ohanlon/20030619.htm (3464 words)

	The Electronic Storm--June 1991
		Desert Storm's spectacular results are seen as vindication of the Air Force's EW acquisition community.
		A problem with one part of the system cropped up during operational testing, which was not completed to the Air Force's full satisfaction until near the end of last year.
		Operation Desert Storm also showed that the Air Force had made sound decisions through the 1980s in developing new radar warning receivers for its top-line fighters.
	www.afa.org /magazine/perspectives/desert_storm/0691storm.html (2897 words)

	To Catch a Lion in the Sahara Desert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		We observe that wild lions are ipso facto not observable in the sahara desert.
		The capture of a tame lion is left as an exercise for the reader.
		We construct a semi-permeable membrane which is permeable to everything except lions and sweep it across the sahara.
	www.ccsi.com /hassan/joke/LionTrapping.html (431 words)

	DefendAmerica News - Article
		KHAR BOLAH, Afghanistan — A large weapons cache was found near the village of Khar Bolah as paratroopers of 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, and 2nd Battalion, 505th PIR executed Operation Crackdown April 16.
		The objective of the operation was to hunt for anti-coalition forces and weapons that could be used against the coalition.
		Second Bn., 505th PIR had another recent success in Operation Desert Lion, in which they destroyed one of the largest weapons caches found in Afghanistan.
	www.defendamerica.mil /articles/apr2003/a042203c.html (377 words)

	WSVN-TV - Villagers Await U.S. Forces Disarming Afghanistan In Anti-Terror Campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It also is the first big success for Operation Desert Lion, an intensified hunt for weapons stashed by remnants of al-Qaida or the ousted Taliban regime for use against a U.S.-led coalition battling terrorists in Afghanistan.
		The operation in the Kohe Safi mountains east of Kabul was one of the first to combine intelligence collected by the International Security Assistance Force, which maintains security in the capital of Kabul, and the U.S.-led multinational anti-terror coalition.
		He was not allowed to speak with an Associated Press reporter accompanying the soldiers and wore a baseball cap, sunglasses, scarf and hood tightly wound around his head to protect his identity.
	www.wsvn.com /news/articles/iraq/C16542 (786 words)

	Defend America - Home Page - 03/28/2003
		They were engaged in operations on March 23 in the vicinity of the outskirts of An Nasiriyah in Iraq.
		OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM (AFPN) March 27, 2003 —; B-52 Stratofortresses keep rolling down the runway at a deployed location, carrying the fight and firepower to the Iraqi regime.
		As the operators and maintainers of the 457th Air Expeditionary Group keep the Buffs flying, having parts and equipment at the ready is critical.
	www.defendamerica.mil /archive/2003-03/20030328.html (2184 words)

	Monument Dedication
		But we couldn't rest because a new threat to freedom arose in the desert of Iraq and Kuwait and the Spearhead Division was summoned to defeat that threat.
		Men and women of the Black Knights, Gunners, and Red Lions moved to the sound of the guns and fought along with the Spartans, Bandits, Dukes, and Pillars of the Thundering 3d Brigade.
		LTC Mike Cloy, a member of the Association of 3d Armored Division Veterans, served in Operation Desert Storm as a company commander in the 5th Battalion, 18th Infantry of the 3d Brigade, 3d Armored Division.
	www.3ad.org /desertstorm/casualties/cas_ray_speech.htm (761 words)

	Guardian \| US launches Afghan air assault
		American soldiers have launched a second major operation in Afghanistan, with an air assault on mountains in the north-east.
		US military officials told Reuters that Operation Desert Lion had begun, as hundreds of troops continued to comb mountain caves and villages in the former Taliban stronghold of southern Kandahar in Operation Valiant Strike.
		Meanwhile, also in Kandahar, relief operations by the International Committee of the Red Cross were put on hold after a Swiss water engineer was shot by unidentified gunmen.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4635598-108920,00.html (297 words)

	DefenseLINK News: 82nd Airborne Launches Operation Near Bagram
		Troops from the 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, kicked off Operation Desert Lion with an air assault from Chinook and Black Hawk helicopters.
		That operation, in the Sami Ghar Mountains near Kandahar, began March 20.
		The battalion-sized operation included troops from the 82nd Airborne, special operations forces and Romanian soldiers.
	globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/iraq/2003/iraq-030328-afps01.htm (255 words)

	How to catch a lion in the Sahara desert? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Dirac method: We observe that wild lions are ipso facto not observable in the Sahara desert.
		The thermodynamic method: We construct a semi-permeable membrane which is permeable to everything except lions and sweep it across the Sahara.
		The lion will soon enter the final state and be trapped.
	www.neuronet.pitt.edu /~bogdan/fun/lion.html (487 words)

	Asia Times
		More than anything, though, the operation illustrates that the ongoing war in Afghanistan - involving 11,000 coalition troops, 8,000 of which are American - is far from over.
		On March 20, the Pentagon launched a major operation with more than 1,000 coalition troops in the villages and caves of southern Kandahar province, where troops loyal to the Taliban, al-Qaeda, and Hekmatyar's Hizb-I-Islami party were thought to be operating.
		Taken together with the decisions of numerous UN agencies and NGOs to suspend operations in the north of the country due to continuing factional clashes between the militias of General Rashid Dostum and General Atta Mohammed, the reconstruction and development process has become increasingly paralyzed in large parts of Afghanistan.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Central_Asia/ED11Ag02.html (2465 words)

	Saudi Royal family
		Prince Abdulla have no formal education and he has spent years "living in the desert with Bedouin tribes." A former head of the National Guard, Abdullah has paid "solidarity" visits to Lebanon, Syria, and Egypt, supported the PLO politically, and strengthened relations with Iran.
		In coming years, Abdullah, ruling as de facto king, and Sultan, as the likely crown prince, will compete to fill the royal government with full relatives to bolster their influence of their maternal clans.
		But when the head of the kingdom's intelligence operation retired this month, he was replaced by
	www.desert-voice.net /new_page_3.htm (740 words)

	Oil Companies in Iraq: A Century of Rivalry and War - Global Policy Forum - UN Security Council
		Such governments view their companies’ global interests as synonymous with the national interest and they readily support their companies’ efforts to control new production sources, to overwhelm foreign rivals, and to gain the most favorable pipeline routes and other transportation and distribution channels.
		Operation Phoenix Scorpion and Operation Desert Thunder in various phases lasted almost continuously from November 1997 through December 1998.
		This increasingly aggressive policy towards Iraq expressed a hardening conviction among leaders in the US and the UK that Saddam Hussein could not be ousted by covert means, and that invasion and direct control over Iraq’s oil would now be required.
	www.globalpolicy.org /security/oil/2003/2003companiesiniraq.htm (8130 words)

	The Walk Across America - Support Us
		Throughout history, the reason Christians have lost their lives is because of this word.
		It is this word Kerygma, along with Eyangelion, that we in Operation Save America seek to live out in the highways and byways of our cities.
		In 34 BC, Julius Caesar issued a Kerygma stating that "Caesar is Lord." One was free to worship the pantheon of gods in that day as long as one proclaimed that Caesar was Lord.
	www.operationsaveamerica.org /walk/live/writings04072004.html (1378 words)

	The Cimmerians Airsoft Association -- AAR : DESERT GLUE
		This month the Cimmerians ventured out to the deserts of Nevada for a weekend-long encampment. 3 intense days of MILSIM combat and desert adventure were experienced by all operators in attendance.
		This operation was an overall success from numbers in attendance to complete evolution mission completion.
		As always we expect all operators to TRY THEIR BEST to wear a conforming uniform. Any desert pattern uniform will be acceptable to operate for this operation.
	www.cimmerians.org /AAR_DESERT_GLUE.html?asgh=1 (341 words)

	Long Island Press: Long Island Newspaper, News, Entertainment, Real Estate, Classifieds, Automotive, Weddings, Business ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A caller, claiming to be a Taliban commander, told a Reuters journalist that a dozen police were killed, and the fate of those kidnapped would be decided by the militants' leadership.
		U.S.-led coalition troops arrested six suspected fighters during a sweep of villages in Ghazni, according to the governor, Sher Alam Ibrahimi, at the start of "Operation Desert Lion."
		Treatment of prisoners, deaths of civilians from "friendly fire, checkpoint shootings and the way in which U.S. convoys hog roads have all fueled resentment toward U.S. forces, even though it took U.S. intervention to oust the Taliban and sow the seeds of democracy that have led to elections in the last two years.
	www.longislandpress.com /reuters/1_ds_193493.php (751 words)

	The Cimmerians Airsoft Association -- AAR : PANZER LION
		The name "Cimmerians" is a Federally registered trademark of the Cimmerians Airsoft Association and may not be used without written permission.
		AAR : PANZER LION - 16 JUL '05
		If you are a CIMMERIAN or if you regularly operate with us as a Player in Good Standing and have not yet used the ARS, you must first go
	www.cimmerians.org /AAR_PANZER_LION.html?asgh=1 (340 words)

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