Word: nasiriyah
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...doors, and service was passed down like a gold pocket watch. Sometimes it was a good safe bet, all beer gardens and the G.I. Bill, and sometimes it was snake eyes, and the soldiers found themselves at a Chosin Reservoir, or a Hue, or on a wrong turn to Nasiriyah...
...directions had seemed simple. After moving overland across the Iraqi border, the convoy would proceed north on Iraq's Highway 8, code-named "Route Blue." At the intersection of Highway 1, called "Route Jackson," the convoy would turn left, avoiding Nasiriyah. The convoy would take Route Jackson until it intersected again with Route Blue, then turn again onto Blue. On his map, Captain Troy King had only highlighted Route Blue--a straight line to Nasiriyah. There was a fail-safe in place, or at least it had been. A checkpoint at the crossing of Route Blue and Route Jackson...
...came up on the city of Nasiriyah...
...developed over time, we began to get some indications...that there may be an injured U.S. military member held in this hospital," said U.S. Air Force Major General Victor E. Renuart, Centcom's director of operations. Then, on about March 27 or 28, Mohammed Odeh Rehaief, a lawyer in Nasiriyah, approached some Marines just outside the downtown area and told them of a blond captive inside Saddam Hussein General Hospital...
...Freedom in Iraq, a project run by Iraq's Workers' Communist Party, is hiding three women in a safe house hundreds of miles from their families. One of them is a 16-year-old girl named Rana who was raped by her neighbor last April in the city of Nasiriyah. When her family discovered what had happened, her brothers decided to kill her, since she was no longer a virgin. A cousin who was aware of the plan took Rana to a nearby Italian military base; she was later moved to Baghdad and finally to a secret location farther north...