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...after elements in the protesting crowd began shooting at the U.S. troops guarding the governor. Deploying forces to stop looting and ensure the basic security of the local population inevitably makes U.S. personnel more vulnerable to sneak attacks than when they were tearing through Republican Guard lines in their armor...
...Infantry Division and 1st Marine Expeditionary Force moved the big guns north, knocking off with relative ease what resistance they encountered. The body counts along the way were dramatically lopsided. In a battle for a bridge across the Euphrates, Lieut. Cclonel Rock Marcone of the 3rd Battalion 69th Armor Regiment said his men had killed 800 of the Republican Guard Medina Division; not a single American died. The U.S. notched tangible victories--roads secured, armies routed. But no less important were the symbolic gains. U.S. warplanes attacked the home of Ali Hassan al-Majid, Saddam's cousin and a member...
...along the highway, pointing in every direction so as not to give away the point of attack. Then the tanks, amphibious tractors and humvees head west toward the outskirts of Diwaniyah. The chum is now in the water, and the Iraqis rise immediately to take it, pinging the Marine armor with small-arms fire. A tank crewman answers, firing his coaxial machine gun into an enemy bunker. Over the radio comes a play-by-play: "Yeah baby," says a voice. "He just ate coax for breakfast," says another. But the sharks were already on hand, and in numbers, when...
...believe that once U.S. forces crush the Republican Guard and Special Republican Guard forces protecting the city, Saddam's hold on power will crumble. But the decision to leave the southern cities unsecured has proved costly, as Fedayeen and Republican Guard troops dispatched to the south waited for U.S. armor to roll by before ambushing lightly armed supply teams in the rear. The battles have left the 50,000 troops at the coalition's spearhead--members of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division and the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force--anxious, exhausted and short on water, food and fuel...
...divisions arrayed south of Baghdad as U.S. and Kurdish forces pouring in from northern Iraq attack Iraqi troops on the northern edge of the city. As ground forces moved closer to Baghdad, the Army's AH64 and Marine AH-1 helicopter gunships that accompanied them north began pulverizing Iraqi armor and the troops around them...