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...young as 10, hurling grenades. But they also encounter deftly executed ambushes bearing the mark of professional soldiers and sophisticated terrorist groups. "I really don't know who it is. I really don't know what they want. That's the problem," says Foley. Local militants say operations around Haifa Street have been led by Abu Musa'ab, a former senior Iraqi military officer who's now a commander for Battalions of Islamic Holy War, a group tied to Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi--the most wanted terrorist in Iraq--and funded by wealthy Wahhabi donors in gulf states. The insurgents...
...Task Force 1/9 since their arrival in Baghdad in April. Their area of operations lies in the heart of the Iraqi capital, with one stretch less than two miles from the office of the new Iraqi government and the U.S. embassy inside the fortified Green Zone. It centers on Haifa Street, a once busy thoroughfare that has become the most feared stretch of Baghdad: a vicious insurgent sanctuary where U.S. and Iraqi government forces cannot tread except to shoot their way in and out. The battle for Haifa Street is illustrative of the wider challenges facing U.S. forces across Iraq...
...midnight fire fight on May 19, which killed one member of Task Force 1/9 and wounded three, was a foreshadowing of even more bold insurgent attacks. On the morning of July 7, a 100-person company of Iraqi National Guardsmen ventured onto Haifa Street to set up checkpoints. Almost immediately, they came under fire from the concrete forest of towering Soviet-style apartment blocks that line the wide, four-lane boulevard. After 50 minutes, Task Force 1/9 headed toward Haifa Street to evacuate the Iraqi troops. As a platoon moved toward a former palace of Saddam Hussein...
...says Staff Sergeant Bryan Keeping. Tynes tells his crew to pray, "'cause you never know what's going to happen. We could have a good day, and they could have a bad day. Or maybe not." Or maybe both. Late last month, after a joint U.S.-Iraqi sweep of Haifa Street, the Iraqi government announced that 263 had been detained in a sweep for "insurgents"--a suspect figure, given that most of the detainees were Shi'ites and the bulk of the hard-core insurgents in this neighborhood are Sunnis. What wasn't reported is that Task Force...
According to a copy of the report obtained by TIME, well-connected companies won import licenses for 420,000 tons of Egyptian cement from last September to February, but only 33,000 tons reached the Palestinian market. The rest, the report charges, went to an Israeli company in Haifa. The report doesn't say how much of about $6 million in profits went to P.A. officials and their connections, but it does accuse several companies, including some owned by the family of Civil Affairs Minister Jamil Tarifi, of profiting from the deal. Tarifi did not return calls requesting comment. Arafat...