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Besides serving as a supply depot staging area, chemical-and biological-weapons detection lab, and a medevac point, the liberated air base now has a hospital. Behind the newly erected surgical unit, hospital chief Colonel Harry Warren shows me three large crates full of Iraqi gas masks found on the base; stamped inside the unused masks are the words MADE IN GERMANY...
...searching houses. A loudspeaker blasts a message in Arabic: Stay in your houses. We are here to help. "This is a place taken out of thousands of years ago when Jesus was walking the earth still," says Corporal Omar Monge, 20, driver for the battalion commander, Lieut. Colonel Bryan P. McCoy. A village elder approaches the battalion translator. Tell everyone not to be scared, he is told. But tell them if they shoot one bullet they will be very scared. We will shoot 2,000 bullets back...
What's more, the Iraqi 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...
...that as the battle for Baghdad is joined in coming weeks, the U.S.'s unusually tight restrictions on target selection may be relaxed. Notes a Pentagon official: "We won't announce it." In the chaos of the battlefield, the old rules of engagement have already been tossed out. Lieut. Colonel Wes Gillman, commander of Task Force 130 of the 3rd Infantry Division, told his men, "If you see an Iraqi in civilian clothes coming toward you--even with a stick--shoot...
...conflicts, friendly fire is a growing risk. In the last Gulf War, 35 of the 146 Americans killed in action, or 24%, died at the hands of their allies. In previous wars, the percentage was much lower. Although precise data are hard to come by, Kenneth Steinweg, a U.S. colonel who studied U.S. Army War College records, estimated in 1995 that comparable rates, based on the best-documented battles, were 16% in World War II, 11% to 14% in Vietnam and 13% in Panama...