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Not that they necessarily knew it, but a Marine platoon stumbled into a potential hornet's nest at 1:30 on Friday in Baghdad, at the al Hanif al Naaman Mosque in the Adhimiya district. Adhimiya is a bastion of the capital's Sunni Muslim minority, whose members have traditionally...
But it's unlikely that the 34 marines knew they were approaching a mosque, or that Friday was the holy day for Muslims, or that it might not be a good idea to walk into a street full of Sunni Muslims kneeling in front of a Mosque whose clock tower...
This media-aware Administration used the press, if not as a weapon, then as an advantageous feature of the landscape. The government managed coverage, giving reporters embedded with troops an exciting but limited view that made for thrilling pictures. TV also managed itself: as the statue fell, troops were in...
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...
At the Jumhuriya Hospital in Mosul, the victims trickled in in taxis, in private cars, in pickups, sometimes in ambulances. The story at the hospital was that American forces had fired into a crowd near the government building in the center of town. A U.S. spokesman calls the building a...