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When the Free French Army's 2nd Armored Division helped liberate Paris 60 years ago last week, a 24-year-old Algerian Jew named Robert Elbeze marched in its ranks. He went on to marry a woman from an Alsatian Jewish family, settle in Paris' historically Jewish Marais neighborhood and raise a family as a proud citizen of the French republic. His son Alain is still here, but his faith in the republic is gone. Disturbed by the increasing pace of attacks against Jews and their property in France, Alain Elbeze, 52, has resolved to move with his wife...
Flushing them out is the task of 1st Cav's 2nd Brigade, a.k.a. the Black Jack Brigade. The commander, Colonel Michael Formica, is keenly aware that when al-Zarqawi brings his jihad to the Iraqi capital, these districts will supply fighters and support...
...Easy Does It?Again Our story "Life on the Front Lines," about the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines' Easy Company and its operations battling Iraqi insurgents in Fallujah [IRAQ, May 10], drew a number of letters from veterans who believed that the company's name wasn't Easy but Echo. According to the military's phonetic alphabet?Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo?E Company would logically be called Echo Company. So why isn't it? As the Marine Corps News reported in January 2003, "The Marines of the current Echo Company have recently been given the green light ... to refer...
...ENEMY WAS LEANING OVER AND THROWING DOWN HAND GRENADES BY THE BUSHEL BASKETFUL." --James Eikner Eikner, 30, was a communications officer with the 2nd Rangers Battalion, which scaled the cliffs at Pointe du Hoc to eliminate fortified German gun emplacements
Given that threat, the images of Abu Ghraib could not have emerged at a worse time. When the stories of abuse broke on April 28, Lieut. Colonel Tim Ryan, commander of the so-called Thunderhorse Battalion--the 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment of the 1st Cavalry Division--had begun to piece together building projects in the area in and around Abu Ghraib, in western Baghdad. The construction would have employed several hundred local men and therefore was a key part, Ryan says, of his plan for defusing support for the insurgency in the Sunni-dominated area. Now he is opting...