snatch and grab n.— «The Marines had been planning a night raid, a “snatch and grab” as they call it.» —“Iraqis vote; Bowling remembered” by David Benzion Lone StarTimes Dec. 15, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued...
POI n.— «The insurgency is mostly made up of Sunni Arabs, the 20 percent of Iraqis who held power under Saddam Hussein.…Some are POIs (“p-ed-off Iraqis”), in the vernacular of some U.S. officials: Sunnis seeking...
hajji n.— «“Hajji” is the new slur, the new ethnic slur for Arabs and Muslims. It is used extensively in the military. The Arabic word refers to one who has gone on a pilgrimage to Mecca. But it is used in the military with the same...
light up v.— «This same perverted thinking is behind the endless incidents of innocent Iraqis being “lit up”—to use the dehumanised US slang—by US forces seeking to protect themselves upon being confronted by cars that fail to...
haji armor n.— «In some cases, says Col. Andy Gembara, a former special operations commando and father of an Army captain who just finished an Iraq tour, local commanders are hiring Iraqis to update the vehicles. “They call it...
beasting n.— «Once they were brought back with their plunder they were made to run in searing heat with boxes of dried milk on their heads. But then this “beasting,” in army parlance, turned worse when the Iraqis were split...