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...heaviest fighting was still to come. The next day the 3rd Platoon and the rest of Task Force 2-2 reached Phase Line Fran, Fallujah's central bisecting road. From there they could stare into the city's notorious industrial area, a hot spot particularly for foreign fighters and the scene of innumerable past battles with the Marines. Sporadic gunfire from the decaying warehouses, cement plants and junkyards provoked U.S. tanks to unleash high-explosive rounds at insurgent positions. The Wolf Pack's fire-support officer called in mortar fire on buildings and locations where movement was seen. Even...
...swing states…a surge that has far exceeded the efforts of Republicans.” In Florida’s “strongest Democratic areas, the pace of new registration is 60 percent higher than in 2000, while it has risen just 12 percent in the heaviest Republican areas.” In Duval County, the site of much of last election’s controversy, “new registrations by black voters are up 150 percent over the pace of 2000.” Data in Ohio show “new registrations since January...
Handling the heaviest fighting would be the soldiers of the battle-hardened 1st Battalion of the 14th Infantry Regiment. Stationed in Kirkuk to the north, the 1/14 battalion knows something about the feints and vanishing acts of the insurgents, having faced them in Najaf, Tall 'Afar and elsewhere. The 1/14 would follow the 1st Battalion of the 26th Infantry Regiment, which would hit Samarra first, crossing a long bridge leading into the city to secure a staging area for the troops that would pour in afterward. Just past midnight on Friday morning, the 1/26 moved. The 1/14, not far behind...
...Everett knows, the accomplishment of that desire ultimately weighs heaviest...
WEASEL WARS Boots set a course record at last week's Ferret Olympics in Springfield, Ore., by finishing the Tube Race in 6.15 sec. Sparky took home the gold in the paper-bag-escape event. Tank weighed in as heaviest ferret...