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...Baghdad, a U.S. soldier was killed in a mortar attack in Mosul. By the weekend, 79 Americans had been killed since Oct. 31, making November the deadliest month for U.S. troops in Iraq since the war began in March. On Saturday seven Spanish intelligence officers were killed when their convoy was ambushed south of Baghdad. After the attack Iraqi youths celebrated by kicking the Spaniards' bodies...
...three days with no sleep. "To me, we weren't ready," Lynch says. "But obviously they wouldn't have sent us over there if they didn't think we were ready." The 507th Maintenance Company was at the very end of an 8,000-vehicle, 100-mile-long supply convoy. From the start, Lynch says, "it just didn't feel right. It really kicked in once we got into Iraq...
...beside and behind and all around them. There were no antitank weapons, no heavy artillery, just a .50-cal. machine gun that--like the soldier's M-16 rifles--didn't work very well, clogged and jammed with three days' worth of blowing sand. By the time her lost convoy came under fire in the streets of Nasiriyah, Lynch's rifle was about as useful as a hockey stick. The soldiers had been instructed to clean their weapons "anytime we got the chance," Lynch says, "but we never really had a chance...
...soldiers of the 1-505 are on the alert for people like Ahmed at all times. Bear and his colleagues patrol the streets and highways around Fallujah and try to provide security for convoys whenever soldiers travel to another base. In September, Bear was in the last humvee of one such convoy crossing a bridge over the Euphrates when a roadside bomb blew up in front of him. The convoy stopped and within seconds was taking light arms fire from three directions. "We did what we are supposed to: we all faced out, said, 'This is my wedge...
Your NOTEBOOK item "Gaza: Echoes Of Iraq" described the bombing of a U.S. embassy convoy in Gaza, the first time Americans have been fatally targeted by Palestinians inside the occupied territories [Oct. 27]. How about a story headlined "Iraq: Echoes of Gaza"? Thanks to the Bush Administration, the U.S. has acquired its own West Bank and Gaza. THOMAS PLAZIBAT Tucson, Ariz...