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...around 5.30 a.m., residents of Baqubah, about 35 miles north of Baghdad, began waking to the sound of explosions. A convoy of U.S. troops from the 1st Infantry Division had been ambushed by insurgents nearby, leaving two American soldiers dead, according to Maj. Debra Stewart,a spokeswoman for the Division which is headquartered nearby in Saddam Hussein's hometown, Tikrit. At the same time, insurgents laid siege to the home of Diyala province's police chief, and torched...
...around 9 a.m., U.S. aircraft dropped four 500-pound laser-guided bombs on buildings that the 1st ID says had been turned into insurgent positions. "There were three anti-Iraqi strong points that they were firing from," Stewart told TIME two hours after the air strike. "We destroyed the buildings...
Arrested: April 12, 2003. Charged with 1st degree murder...
...force Iraqi troops to take over the job of maintaining security. As it did in Fallujah in April, the U.S. last week chose to deal instead of fight, this time accepting a truce with the Shi'ite militia loyal to cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, 30. The U.S. Army's 1st Armored Division agreed to pull back from the holy city of Najaf in a deal pushed by Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani, the most respected Shi'ite leader in the country...
...German prisoners marching by me. The 175th Infantry Regiment apparently landed around that time, and German snipers opened up on the beach, including the wounded. I got shot in my right knee in the stretcher. I had received five individual wounds that day in Normandy. The 1st Battalion of the 116th Infantry was more or less sacrificed to achieve the landing and was completely wiped out. It was a total sacrifice...