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Since November 2006, when U.S. forces deployed elsewhere in Iraq, the Baqubah River valley, a string of farming hamlets nestled among dense palm groves northeast of Baghdad, has become the scene of intense violence. Over the weekend, the U.S. military returned in force. TIME'S Mark Kukis went along with the assault on the insurgent-dominated village of Qubah...
...attack on Qubah opened in the hours before dawn March 24 with the sounds of a flotilla of helicopters thundering through the darkness over the river valley outside Baqubah. At about 4 a.m. local time, seven Chinooks, four Blackhawks and two Apache gunships rose as one from Forward Operating Base Warhorse, the main U.S. military base in Baqubah. Moments later, the helicopters descended on Qubah, a village at the northern edge of the river valley used by insurgents as a safe haven...
...move on Qubah leaves the village of Zaganiya as the last insurgent stronghold in the Baquba River valley that U.S. forces have not entered in their effort to regain control of the area. Capt. Mike Few admits being impatient about a return to Zaganiya, where he worked with local leaders when he patrolled the river valley in the fall. Capt. Few said he had a tense relationship with the head sheik in Zaganiya, Septar al-Zuharie. The American officer suspected that al-Zuharie was cooperating in some way with insurgents when he was last in Zaganiya. Capt. Few continued...
...candies, representing the House’s mascot, according to new Leverett resident Azeemah Kola ’10. But, she added, spectacle wasn’t her primary concern. “I’m actually really happy because I really just wanted to be on the River, and I really didn’t want to be in Dunster or in the Quad,” Kola said. Echoing this sentiment, Callie L. Pinkas ‘10, upon opening her envelope yesterday morning, said she was initially dismayed to find she had been exiled to Cabot...
...candies, representing the House’s mascot, according to new Leverett resident Azeemah Kola ’10. But, she added, spectacle wasn’t her primary concern. “I’m actually really happy because I really just wanted to be on the River, and I really didn’t want to be in Dunster or in the Quad,” Kola said. Echoing this sentiment, Caroline L. Pinkas ‘10, upon opening her envelope yesterday morning, said she was initially dismayed to find she had been exiled to Cabot...