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After mastering the basics of military life, the journalists were deployed alongside combat units, allowing them to report directly from the battlefront, focus attention on individualized stories of combat and dissect the war from the battlefield...
Barnes also recounted lighter incidents from his time in Iraq, including the sense of camaraderie that developed between reporters and soldiers both on and off the battlefield...
...Brooks has acknowledged that some members of the Republican Guard may return as guerrillas to harass U.S. troops. "We don't think all that's going to just disappear," he said, "but there's no way to account for how many made the decision to just walk off the battlefield and never fight again...
...least not formally. Some Pentagon officials, using rough accounts from the field, privately estimate that more than 10,000 Iraqi troops and up to 2,000 civilians have died so far. Approximations are possible after ground engagements, when coalition forces may make a quick battlefield walk-through to scan for the dead. Tallying destroyed vehicles and multiplying by the number of personnel it takes to operate each can also provide a crude estimate...
...kilometers away. Bands of self-styled peshmerga, Kurdish guerillas, have been venturing down the road, looking - they say - for holdouts from the Saddam regime. But they are looters, not peshmerga - a nasty bunch reminiscent of the mobs that followed medieval armies, killing the wounded left on the battlefield and stripping them of their valuables. The Kurdish marauders tell stories of villages full of armed members of Saddam's Baath party, or of Iraqi generals. They even ask journalists to call in U.S. air strikes. Their stories are lies, though, and in private they discuss with relish how many cars there...