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Charlie Company had never done a foot patrol in downtown Fallujah before. There's a good reason: Fallujah is the most dangerous place in Iraq for a U.S. soldier to set boots to ground. The 82nd Airborne Division took command of Fallujah and its environs last month and wants to increase its presence inside the town that plays host to Iraq's most active resistance network. Taming the city that detonates an average of three homemade bombs a day against coalition forces is a duty of the 1-505 Parachute Infantry Regiment. On Thursday afternoon, Charlie Company's first platoon...
...grabbed the man by the belt and started pulling him under an overhang. A machine gun opened up from the roof across the street, and bullets hit the dirt around Vazquez's feet. The gunman's body was stuck on the curb. "Leave him, leave him," shouted a soldier. Still Vazquez persevered, getting the man onto the sidewalk and out of the line of fire. Vazquez patted him down, taking a set of prayer beads out of the dying man's pocket and placing them in his left hand...
...anyone else." Nor, he said, was it a response to last week's release of a tape in which Osama bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, called for the overthrow of Musharraf's government. A Western diplomat in Islamabad also viewed the raid--which involved hundreds of Pakistani soldiers, two of whom were killed--as an indication that Pakistan is getting more serious in the fight against terrorism: "It was quite a bold move, because this is an area where the government has rarely operated." Security analyst Talat Masood, a retired lieutenant general in the Pakistani army, said...
...dusty heights of Syria, where Israeli jets last week struck a training camp of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. At the other edge of the fruit field on Monday, a sniper hid in the Lebanese village of Kafr Kileh, which abuts the border fence, and shot dead an Israeli soldier in revenge for the air raid. "It's a new era of terror," says Melzer, a lawyer in this northernmost Israeli town. "It's the most unpredictable time we've ever known." Israel leapt into the unknown last week, when Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered the bombing of the camp...
Waiting at a stop sign in his ’95 Jeep Grand Cherokee, the Brighton native spots a friend and fellow foot soldier standing in front of Claverly. They exchange tickets and money through the window, and Welch attempts to convince him to ignore his cold and come to The Party...