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...This is a nasty, nightmarish situation for the villagers along the road, and that could quickly become a political problem for the U.S. On Monday, a few hours after the Marines moved into Tikrit, we drove down from Kirkuk. Just before the bridge that leads to the city, we were stopped at an impromptu checkpoint. Armed Arab tribesmen invited us - without the option of refusal - to meet their sheik, Said Badr Alihani. They led us along the dusty side roads of their settlement, where we noticed scouts strategically positioned along...
...told, but would shoot anybody trying to get into the station. A well-armed checkpoint waved us by with salutations just outside the gas station. Twenty or so men with automatic rifles, machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades waved from the ditch where they had taken up positions. We drove on past the usual sights along the Tikrit road: a missile laying on its upturned transporter for the past few days - the transporter had been picked clean of any useful parts but the missile was untouched - and the boxes of munitions lying neatly spaced in the fields to preserve them...
According to LaGrassa, Colono and friends drove away from the scene—not realizing he had been stabbed...
After Penn responded to cut the lead in half, Harvard scored three straight. Junior midfielder Jen Brooks drove in from the left and launched a shot into the upper left corner of the net. Shaughnessy followed with her second goal of the game on an impressive play in which she weaved in and out of every member of the Quaker defense before rocketing it into the net. Sophomore attack Casey Owens completed the rally by scoring off a free position shot to give the Crimson a comfortable 5-1 lead with five minutes left in the half...
Harvard took its only lead of the game with two runs in the third inning. Junior Sara Williamson tied the game with a clutch pinch-hit double that drove in freshman Erin Halpenny, who had led off the inning with a double. Sophomore Lauren Stefanchik, who re-entered the game for Williamson at second, scored the go-ahead run when she attempted to steal third and Big Red catcher Melissa Heintz threw the ball into the outfield...