Jan 7, 2008 17:00
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Arabic term

ردّ على مصدر إطلاق النار

Arabic to English Other Other Politics
أصيب أربعة مواطنين بجروح عندما ردت قوة المساندة على مصدر إطلاق النار

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fired back at.../ returned fire to the source of the shooting

The force fired back at the source of the gunfire. ...
dover.idf.il/IDF/English/updates/2007/11/0702.htm

added that the American army fired back at the source of the mortar rounds. Saleh, however, could provide no information regarding casualties. ...
inn-iraqnewsnet.blogspot.com/2004_06_10_inn-iraqnewsnet_archive.html

The forces returned fire to the source of the shooting once it had been identified. ...
israpundit.blogspot.com/2003_01_12_archive.html

... Russian troops came under small arm fire and immediately returned fire to the source of the attack. ...
www.nato.int/kosovo/press/1999/k990810a.htm

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agree Steve Booth
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agree Hani Hassaan
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agree Abdallah Ali : Didn't match your generosity :)
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agree Assem Mazloum :
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agree ArabInk : returned fire
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agree AhmedAMS
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agree Neamaat Shehatah
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agree Amira Mansour
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agree sktrans : returned fire
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agree Mohamed Ghazal
4 hrs
agree Alexander Yeltsov
4 hrs
agree Mohsin Alabdali
12 hrs
agree kifahl
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fired back

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agree AhmedAMS
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agree Steve Booth
5 mins
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agree Neamaat Shehatah
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agree Sajjad Hamadani
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agree Amira Mansour
2 hrs
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agree kifahl
15 hrs
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return(ed) fire (at the original source of incoming fire is implied)

Greetings... ahalan wa sahalan...

Lacking more context, the equivalent is "return(ed) fire" (firing back at the original source of incoming fire is implied).

Hope this helps.

Khair, in shaa' Allah.

Regards,

Stephen H. Franke
San Pedro, California
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agree Assem Mazloum :
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agree Mohamed Ghazal
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agree Alexander Yeltsov
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agree Steve Booth
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shelling the sources of enemy fire

Editorial from THE JERUSALEM POST of APRIL 28 1996In chasing Hizbullah units, or shelling the sources of enemy fire, or bombing Hizbullah targets from the air, inevitable mistakes caused the death of ...
www.freeman.org/m_online/may96/jpost.htm - 7k - Cached - Similar pages
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shooting back towrds the fire source

They fired back at the direction of the fire source
Example sentence:

If we did identify a fire source, we would shoot towards it

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