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Ashes and Dust: In the Aftermath of an Attack on an Unarmed Population
WUERDIYA, IRAQ – A key attribute of the enemy in Iraq for the past few years has been its unwillingness to directly engage coalition soldiers in armed combat. Whether this is a result of the enemy’s...
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The Surge in Action: Baker Company 1-15 rallies villagers to the Coalition...
WUERDIYA, IRAQ — THOUGH “EASE” IS AN extremely relative attribute in this case, hunting and killing the enemy in the Salman Pak region of Iraq (southeast of Baghdad) is, in fact, the easy part of the...
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Tal Afar SWAT: The Iraqi Police have an elite unit in Nineveh Province,...
TAL AFAR, IRAQ — THE DAY BEGINS AT 0500, when the sun is still out of sight and the weather cool. As the pickup truck pulls up to the inside of the front gate of the Forward Operating Base (FOB), the...
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Air Assault into al Qaeda Country
Operation Marne Huskey: Taking the Fight to al Qaeda in the Tigris River Valley Salman Pak, Iraq – THE STEADY BEAT OF the helicopters’ dual rotors could be heard long before the CH-47 ‘Chinooks’ came...
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