NORTH OF NAJAF, IRAQ - Twenty-four hours after the suicide car bombing that killed four US soldiers on Highway 9, some 30 kilometers north of Najaf, the air still reeks of the explosion. The force of the plastic explosive blast not only completely destroyed the taxi cab used for the car bomb, it also charred... [ Read entire Post ]
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March 2003 Archives
March 31, 2003 at 4:05 PM
Car bomb makes US 'less averse to collateral damage'
March 30, 2003 at 4:02 PM
Four U.S. soldier killed by Iraqi suicide bomber
30 KM. NORTH OF NAJAF, IRAQ - 'Handling threats posed by civilians is a new situation for the US Army [in Iraq]. Precedents are being set today by the guys on the ground at the battalion level.' So ruminated Lt.-Col Scott Rutter, commander of the 2-7 mechanized infantry battalion of the army's Third Infantry Division's... [ Read entire Post ]
March 28, 2003 at 3:58 PM
Winning the peace
WITH THE 3RD INFANTRY DIVISION IN IRAQ - Specialist Julie Albrecht is the first woman I have spoken to (and the third I have seen) since joining up with this division's Third Brigade. Albrecht, 19, from Joliet, Illinois, is a Humvee driver in a chemical weapons company. She joined the army to finance her college... [ Read entire Post ]
Why they fight
NAJAF AMMUNITION STORAGE FACILITY - The winds and the sands of the Iraqi desert began swirling at around noon Tuesday but it didn't seem so bad. Two hours later, the storm was still passable as we set out for the suspected chemical weapons storage facility and the largest weapons storage facility in Najaf, Iraq, to... [ Read entire Post ]
March 26, 2003 at 3:48 PM
Army team probes suspected chemical plant
SOUTH OF BAGHDAD - In the midst of a sandstorm that turned the landscape into moonscape, day into night, and night into pure blackness, a US Army sensitive site team arrived at the ammunition storage facility at Najaf Tuesday to investigate suspicions the complex had been used for chemical weapons. The team - Site Survey... [ Read entire Post ]
March 25, 2003 at 3:43 PM
US Army to inspect suspected chemical site today
150 KM. SOUTH OF BAGHDAD - US forces continued to secure the suspected chemical plant in Najaf on Monday, as 12 civilians were caught attempting to transport a truckload of AK-47 rifles to the site. The 12 were added to the 54 Iraqi officers and enlisted men - including one general - who surrendered to... [ Read entire Post ]
March 24, 2003 at 3:33 PM
US troops take control of suspected chemical weapons plant
DUE WEST OF NAJAF, SOUTHERN IRAQ - Soldiers of the US 3rd Infantry Division Sunday captured in Najaf, some 250 kilometers south of Baghdad, the first Iraqi installation that is suspected of having produced chemical weapons. About 70 Iraqi troops, including a general, surrendered to US forces at the plant. One soldier was lightly wounded... [ Read entire Post ]
3rd Infantry in first planned operation against Iraqi target
DUE WEST OF NAJAF, Southern Iraq - The First Brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division conducted its first planned operation against an Iraqi target Sunday. Battalion forces were engaged twice by enemy forces along Highway 8, first in the village of al-Khadir just south of a-Samwah and later on the outskirts of a-Samwah itself. In... [ Read entire Post ]
March 21, 2003 at 4:00 PM
Into the breach
ON THE IRAQ-KUWAIT BORDER - The few Iraqi guards on the Kuwait border fledon Thursday night in advance of US troops crossing into Iraq. At midnight,soldiers saw that the roof of the building housing the guards had been blownoff and there was rubble all around, but there were no Iraqis; neither deadnor wounded. They had... [ Read entire Post ]
Odyssey of an Israeli journalist
SOUTHERN IRAQ - I do not recall ever considering the country of Kuwait orthe Kuwaiti people for that matter with any particular emotion. To the bestof my knowledge, Kuwaiti forces never participated in the Arab world's warsagainst Israel, nor have the Kuwaitis overtly funded terrorism against uslike the Saudis and the Iraqis.If I had any... [ Read entire Post ]
The Israeli Connection
The US military is without a doubt the most powerful fighting force in theworld. The forces arrayed in the Kuwaiti desert are stunning by anystandard. Last Thursday night and Friday morning, the Fifth Corps, whichcommands all army ground forces in the country staged a rehearsal of theinvasion of Iraq.The main purpose of the exercise from... [ Read entire Post ]
One minute to zero hour
KUWAITI DESERT - Monday afternoon I ate a hamentaschen on the hood of a humvee in the Kuwaitidesert, 40 km. south of Iraq with US Army 1st Sergeant Michael Mansfield. Ilit a zippo lighter for a candle and we said the blessings. We clinked hamentaschen for l'haim. In lieu of the megilla reading, I told his... [ Read entire Post ]
