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When 1st Lieut. Raied showed up for work on April 4 at Camp Eagle, a U.S. Army base in the east Baghdad slum of Sadr City, he knew he wouldn't have much company. The executive officer of the 306th Battalion of the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps (ICDC), Raied and other battalion members had been warned by locals not to report for duty after fighting broke out between militants loyal to the Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and U.S. forces. Raied, who like his comrades asked to be identified only by his first name, estimates that only a third...
...says only two Iraqis from Raied's company made it to work that day, after an ambush by al-Sadr's forces killed eight U.S. soldiers. Since then, about 100 of the 700 members of the 306th Battalion have gone missing in action. Of the rest, say the U.S. soldiers at the camp, 90% fail to show up on days of high tension. Those officers who have remained on the job--men like Raied, a former master sergeant in the old Iraqi army--say the bloody fighting that had gripped the country over the past month was a watershed; local...
...those failings are manifest at Camp Eagle in Sadr City, where members of the U.S. Army's 1st Cavalry Division have assumed responsibility for training and overseeing the 306th Battalion of the ICDC. Most of the members of the battalion are former day laborers who have not undergone physical or medical screening. They are supposed to show up at 8:30 a.m., though there is no penalty for tardiness. After a short workout, a good deal of horseplay and some training, the Iraqis take on basic duties, like manning traffic-control checkpoints. At 2 p.m. they eat lunch...
With so much of Iraq in danger of sliding out of its control, the U.S. will need to maintain cooperation from Iraqis like those in the 306th Battalion if it is to have any chance of restoring order. Raied, the battalion's executive officer, says, "We will continue to support the U.S. troops until June 30. We want to see if they keep their promises." The U.S., in turn, is staking its hopes for stability on Iraqis like Raied and Sergeant Adnan, who was one of two members of his company who turned up after the April 4 fighting started...
Botterill scored the game’s first goal—her 306th career point—six minutes into the game when she claimed the puck just outside the crease and cut across for the finish past Princeton goaltender Megan Van Beusekom. Botterill had room to work with because freshman Julie Chu had taken a shot from the opposite side and junior Lauren McAuliffe was entangled with the defender on Botterill’s side...