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...April 18, 2003, troops from the 101st Airborne Division stopped at al-Qaqaa on their way to Baghdad and entered some of the secured bunkers with bolt cutters, as documented by a camera crew from an ABC affiliate in Minneapolis, Minn. The footage, which came to light after the White House sought to cast doubt on the story last week, indicated that some of the sealed weaponry was still present a month after the war began. The 101st did not resecure the bunkers when they left al-Qaqaa, nor did they destroy the ordnance, in part because their orders were...
...irony is that Mosul had once been a postwar model for U.S. involvement in Iraq. From April 2003 until last February, the city was under the command of the 101st Airborne Division, led by Lieut. General David Petraeus, who tried to be sensitive to local concerns. Several residents fondly recall particular soldiers by name. "Tell Mr. Anderson of the 101st Airborne that a Moslawi girl salutes him," says a schoolteacher. The 101st devoted itself to economic-development projects, including restarting a cement factory that had been one of the city's biggest employers. These days the local economy has stalled...
...strong 101st is gone, replaced last February by the 8,700 soldiers of Task Force Olympia, a multinational brigade of coalition troops. Although they include a large number of U.S. National Guard reservists, American soldiers have largely taken a backseat to the Iraqi National Guard. So far, as in the rest of Iraq, the performance of these new units has been mixed. "The current invisibility of American soldiers has made people happier. People feel more comfortable with Iraqi soldiers," says Dindar Doskar, head of the Mosul office of the Kurdish Islamic Union (KIU). "But there are not enough Iraqi soldiers...
Lieutenant General David Petraeus has just returned to his office in Baghdad's Republican Palace from visiting a close friend - a tribal sheikh he had come to know well during his 10-month command of the 101st Airborne Division in the northern city of Mosul. As is often the case, Petraeus is one lucky man: His friend, Sheikh Ghazi Yawar, was appointed as Iraq's new president three weeks ago. And Yawar's most critical priority is the one Petraeus is now charged with overseeing: getting Iraq's military and police forces up and running. "It was wonderful...
America now finds itself in the middle of another war--or two wars, depending on how you count--allied once again with the British against an implacable enemy. When President Bush visited the 101st Airborne troops in March, he recalled how on the night before D-day, Eisenhower went down to the airfield where the troops of the 101st were preparing to load onto C-47s for their flight to Normandy. He told the men not to worry because they had the best leaders and equipment. One of them looked at him and said, "Hell, General, we ain't worried...