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Fear, when set loose, can turn to fury; by nightfall there was no counting how many pictures and statues and paintings of Saddam had been stabbed and stomped and torched. In fact, that was how the 3/4 Battalion of the 7th Marines began their day: at the abandoned military compound where they had spent the night, a few took a sledgehammer to a mural of Saddam. "I hit him once for each Marine that died and once for each of my family members back home," said Lance Corporal Garfield Shealy. "He's the reason why I'm not with them...
...that promised, "We will not compromise military security or jeopardize a single American life," an apparent dig at Rivera. Even CNN (like TIME, a unit of AOL Time Warner) was defensively asserting that it was no Mata Hari. During a live report from Walter Rodgers with the 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry, outside Baghdad, anchor Carol Costello prompted, "Walter, just to clarify for our audience, everything you're telling us is O.K. with the military, right...
...bait. Why bring the enemy out in the open so far from Baghdad? McCoy's battalion is waiting farther back in order to clear out pockets of resistance and secure supply lines. "We want to keep the enemy on their heels," he says. So as the rest of the 7th Marine Regiment pushes north toward the capital, 3/4 Battalion plans to pick a fight at the rear of the convoy. "It's just a good opportunity to kill these guys," McCoy says. "I don't say that with a lot of bravado, but we're here to break their will...
...loyal to Saddam. Only then can one even begin to talk about prospects of local people--circumspect after the U.S. encouraged previous uprisings that were later crushed--partying in the streets. "Only when there is physical presence can people feel safe," says Sergeant Major David Howell, with 3/4 Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment...
...leader has relied heavily on the Fedayeen to launch hit-and-run strikes. The Fedayeen and other Iraqi irregulars have employed deceptive tactics like shooting at allied forces while waving white flags. "The enemy has gone asymmetric on us," complains Lieut. Colonel Bryan McCoy, commander of the 3rd Brigade, 7th Marines. "There's treachery. There are ambushes. It's not straight-up conventional fighting." On Saturday, U.S. Marines recovered the bodies of seven missing U.S. troops who appeared to have been executed and then dumped in shallow graves outside Nasiriyah...