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...never get much sleep at a patrol base at night. In Ramadi, where Marines man several combat outposts amid the inner city, darkness often brings fear as Iraqi security forces come and go, leaving some Marines wondering whether they are among friends or enemies. In Ghazaliya, a violent neighborhood in western Baghdad with similar combat outposts, nearby gunfire cracks through the inky blackness outside seemingly every time you drift off. And in Diyala Province, where nine U.S. soldiers died Monday, troops stand watch on rooftops overlooking stretches of palm groves where they know insurgents dwell, waiting for the right moment...
...Increasingly across Iraq, U.S. forces are leaving the comfort and safety of their fortified mega-bases and establishing small combat outposts and patrol bases like the one insurgents struck outside Baquba that left 20 soldiers wounded as well. Some patrol bases are well protected with blast walls and large numbers of troops. Others are little more than abandoned houses that a few platoons circle with Humvees while hunkering down inside. As a reporter frequently embedded with U.S. forces, I've visited many such patrol bases, and the sense of vulnerability at them is all too palpable. The paratroopers tasked with...
...same area of the Diyala River valley as American troops struggle against insurgents who appear to be increasingly bent on turning the territory around Baquba into the most deadly front of the war in Iraq for U.S. forces. It remains to be seen whether the dozens of other combat outposts popping up around Iraq amid the surge will come to face similar attacks aimed at sending U.S. troops back into heavily fortified compounds and, in the hopes of insurgents, ultimately home to the United States in defeat...
...because of you,” he said. “And today is no different.” Obama pointed out that he is one of the few senators who opposed the war in Iraq, and he said that, if elected, he would gradually withdraw American troops from combat zones. By the end of his first term in office, Obama promised that all Americans would have universal health care. The audience gave Obama a standing ovation when he mentioned Darfur, saying that he would “end the genocide” with international help...
...with al-Qaeda remains a longer-term ambition of the extremists, hoping to increase their striking power and extend it into Europe. One sign of that was the announcement, last September, by al-Qaeda's deputy leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, that Algeria's radical Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) had joined bin Laden's organization. After renaming itself al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the group quickly began targeting foreign interests in Algeria and warned that attacks abroad would follow. AQIM then used an al-Qaeda terror signature in its April 11 strike in Algiers - multiple and coordinated...