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  • Brittanie got pregnant, they married, and then an insurgent's blast sent several fragments, at least one as big as a pencil eraser, into his head.

    Traumatic brain injury leaves an often-invisible, life-altering wound Christian Davenport 2010

  • Brittanie got pregnant, they married, and then an insurgent's blast sent several fragments, at least one as big as a pencil eraser, into his head.

    'IT CHANGES WHO WE ARE' Christian Davenport 2010

  • Instead of raising money primarily for incumbent Republicans, leaders decided at a retreat in early 2009 to take an "insurgent's perspective" and throw energy and dollars at finding new blood to threaten longtime Democratic incumbents, led by a leadership team dubbed the "Young Guns".

    Linda Keenan: Shadow Elite : Election 2010 -- Attack of the Stealth Financeers Linda Keenan 2010

  • Brittanie got pregnant, they married, and then an insurgent's blast sent several fragments, at least one as big as a pencil eraser, into his head.

    Traumatic brain injury leaves an often-invisible, life-altering wound Christian Davenport 2010

  • In 2004 Deb and Dan Dunham lost their son Jason to an insurgent's grenade in Iraq.

    Shell-Shocked Dog of War Finds a Home With the Family of a Fallen Hero Michael M. Phillips 2010

  • More photos and interactive graphics The leaders chose Mr. Sessions in part because he had an insurgent's perspective: He had run for Congress without NRCC backing in 1994 (he lost), and his father, William Sessions, had been dismissed as Federal Bureau of Investigation director by President Bill Clinton, an incident that left a deep impression.

    How the Rout Was Won: Careful Plans, Timely Wave Gerald F. Seib 2010

  • Carter, 47, was one of two pilots flying a Chinook transport helicopter in Afghanistan on Aug. 6 when it was apparently hit by an insurgent's rocket-propelled grenade, according to the Defense Department.

    Mourners remember helicopter pilot killed in Afghanistan 2011

  • "We will do to you what we did to the Russians," the insurgent's leader boasted over the radio, referring to the failure of

    KIA KIA/BNR 2009

  • Carter, 47, was one of two pilots flying a Chinook transport helicopter in Afghanistan on Aug. 6 when it was apparently hit by an insurgent's rocket-propelled grenade, according to the Defense Department.

    Mourners remember helicopter pilot killed in Afghanistan 2011

  • In July, the mayor of Kandahar city was killed by a bomb planted in an insurgent's turban, as was the head of Kandahar province's Ulema council, the government's top religious authority.

    Top Afghan Negotiator Killed Maria Abi-Habib 2011

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