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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...
...time leading scorer, who won six championships, has lately been focusing on a different kind of team. In his fifth book, Brothers in Arms (co-written with Anthony Walton), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 57, chronicles the 761st Tank Battalion, an all-black unit that helped liberate dozens of towns in World War II. TIME's Sean Gregory talked last week with the Hall of Famer...
Dawn in Fallujah, and the men of the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines' Easy Company, part of the 1st U.S. Marine Expeditionary Force, are withdrawing under fire. At 4:30 that morning, 150 Marines had moved into the southern edge of the city to destroy two bunkers that insurgents were using to fire on their positions. Easy's Third Platoon moved in to inspect one of the buildings, which had been hit the day before by a 500-lb. bomb. Platoon Commander 2nd Lieut. Ilario Pantano reported back that they had found gun emplacements and binoculars and that the building...
...from full that day. Most ordinary Iraqis were still too scared to venture out of their houses and apartments, preferring to peek through curtains at the arrival of freedom. But the feeling of liberation and joy among those who did go into the streets was obvious. As the Marine battalion I was with moved through the city, old women offered battle-weary Marines cookies and tea, while kids shouted out, "Thank you, Bush!" and "America good!" and offered flowers and handshakes...
...over the central part of the city. As evening falls, the insurgents are still firing mortars at the Easy Company base. The company fires back with its own mortars, and a patrol prepares to go out after our attackers. The company asks for permission to patrol the area, but battalion headquarters rejects the request. One frustrated Marine starts to hum that tune you hear at the circus, the one that signals the entry of the clowns...