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...sign on to Washington's plan for self-rule. Bush's Baghdad team is also distributing a million leaflets throughout Iraq urging participation in caucuses for a constitutional assembly and interim administration. Over the next couple of months, up to 25,000 Marines will replace the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, and the Marines are getting etiquette lessons to help them win the hearts and minds of the locals--something the Marines have, in any case, long felt they're better at than the Army...
...Karam says, he and three of his brothers were driving to a neighborhood where the pumps were working in order to get water for their home. Hussein, in the passenger seat, talked excitedly about having his new suit tailored for his upcoming wedding. That's when 82nd Airborne paratroopers, crouched in an observation post across the street, opened fire--after rounds struck their position, they say. Three of the brothers ran to the safety of a creek bed, but Hussein didn't make it. In the car, said Karam, the soldiers found Hussein--gurgling blood through his throat...
...attackers were criminals Saddam had released from jail on the eve of the U.S. invasion as well as foreign terrorists allied with al-Qaeda. Now the Pentagon believes that the overwhelming majority are former Baath Party officials and other Saddam loyalists. Major General Charles Swannack Jr., commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, told the Washington Post last week he believed Saddam planned the insurgency in advance of the war. U.S. Central Command chief General John Abizaid dismissed the idea. According to the former Saddam aide, the deposed President is not leading the resistance nationally, but some cell leaders receive orders...
...were heroes. I thought to myself, That's what I want--recognition, a sense of accomplishment." And so he enlisted. Trained as a paratrooper, Bear served in Afghanistan last year and arrived in Iraq two months ago with Charlie Company of the 1-505 Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division. "Nobody has delusions of grandeur that we're going to be the ones to catch Saddam Hussein," says Bear, 33, sitting in his makeshift sleeping quarters at the battalion's base--a former Baath Party resort named Dreamland, just outside Fallujah. "We're just here...
Relying on untested allies also presents risks for coalition forces. It is instructive to spend a night with the 82nd Airborne's Alpha Company, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, bivouacked in southern Baghdad. An Iraqi informant reports that 12 to 20 suspected resistance leaders from Afghanistan and Syria are meeting in a mosque near the airport. The unit's commander, Captain Tyson Voelkel, tells his men these foreigners are gathering to review plans to launch terror attacks starting the next day. Some 110 G.I.s plus 40 members of the new Iraqi Civilian Defense Corps training with Alpha Company move...