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...allies must come with costs. U.S. and British forces lost 22 soldiers in the war's first three days. Nineteen died in military accidents. Early Sunday morning more than a dozen U.S. soldiers were wounded and one killed in a grenade attack on a camp housing the 101st Airborne Division; a U.S. soldier was held in connection with the attack. At least two soldiers died at the hands of overmatched enemy forces that nevertheless tried to fight off the invaders. Allied troops found themselves in fire fights near the cities of Samawah, Basra and Nasiriyah. Some Iraqi soldiers left their...
...preparing to deliver the ultimate blow to the Iraqi regime. While each day that the war drags on gives the Iraqis a chance to regroup, it also grants allied forces the opportunity to reload. As the 3rd Infantry Division made its way past Nasiriyah, a long column of the 101st Airborne Division barreled out of Kuwait into the desert on a parallel track, crossing the marshes and heading toward Baghdad. Scores of Harriers and A-10 Warthogs took off from bases in Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and from aircraft carriers in the gulf, providing support to the Marines...
...when a suicide bomber detonated a taxi, killing five people, including an Australian cameraman. Early Sunday, Jim Lacey was sleeping in his tent in Camp Pennsylvania, in northern Kuwait, when he suddenly heard loud bangs. Two grenades had exploded 10 yards away, in the tents housing officers of the 101st Airborne. More than a dozen were wounded, and at least one was killed. The detained suspect: an American soldier. Photographer Benjamin Lowy captured the chaos on film...
...Iraqi attacks died down, the 101st Airborne Division began arriving to release the armored units for other missions. Brigadier General Benjamin Freakley, assistant division commander of the 101st, briefed the leaders of the companies that would be encircling Najaf. Everyone expected the remaining fedayeen to attempt a break toward Baghdad even if it meant running the 101st's gauntlet. But if the fedayeen stayed and conscripted the locals at gunpoint again, Freakley faced a moral conundrum: "Imagine someone walking into your home and saying either you fight or we will kill your wife and daughters. They are doing what...
Just outside An Najaf, a city of over a half million people, the 101st Airborne temporarily occupied an old school. Its walls were cracking, it was covered in dust, and by all appearances it had not been occupied for years. In any city or town in America the building would have been condemned and cordoned off as a hazard. It was not until troops entered the building and noticed 2003 calendars hanging on the walls that anyone realized the building was still...