| The vine attaches itself with clinging tendrils, which can be difficult to remove from wood siding and mortared brick and stone surfaces. |
| American positions and patrols in Mosul are being regularly ambushed or mortared. |
| And these are the headquarters troops, who, the story notes, get mortared every night. |
| Ragged crenelated tops can be seen on some mortared walls that have lost their coping, and over time these will deteriorate further. |
| Staff Sergeant Brian Flading, a 19D Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran, remembers an incident when his platoon was mortared one night in Balad. |
| It was credible for the wall to look thickly mortared, but not for the wooden stretchers of a canvas, or a man's coat, to be similarly treated. |
