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Finnigan’s brother Tom, 23, is a corporal in the Civil Affairs Group in the southern Iraqi city of An Nasiriyah...
After her capture, Lynch was transferred to the emergency wing of Saddam Hospital in Nasiriyah. It was there, according to news reports, that Lynch was spotted by Mohammed, 32, an Iraqi lawyer who had gone to the hospital to visit his wife, a nurse. According to the Washington Post, Mohammed's interest was piqued by a throng of paramilitary guards. A doctor then directed him to their quarry: a young woman bandaged and covered in a white blanket. Mohammed looked on as a guard, clad all in black, twice slapped the woman. After the man left, Mohammed sneaked back into...
...death. The struggle for the city could draw U.S. troops into highly dangerous close-quarter urban combat and bring untold misery to Iraqi civilians subjected both to collateral damage caused by the allies and to the terror of Saddam's men. In the besieged cities of Basra, Nasiriyah and Samawah, Iraqi refugees and defectors said Fedayeen were slaughtering men and boys who refused to fight against the invading forces...
...inside. Among other friendly-fire episodes of the war so far: a U.S. Patriot missile shot down a British Tornado aircraft, killing two servicemen. Another soldier died after two British armored vehicles came under fire, possibly from a U.S. A-10 aircraft. U.S. officials are investigating another incident near Nasiriyah, in which one Marine unit fired on another, wounding more than...
Reconstructing the attack has not been easy. Even the survivors are confused. Initial reports from the battlefield said the 507th had taken a wrong turn while passing near the town of Nasiriyah, but U.S. Congressman Silvestre Reyes, whose El Paso district encompasses Fort Bliss, says he was told by a senior officer that the convoy was ambushed on a bridge and had not taken a wrong turn. The lightly armed unit didn't have a chance. It had no combat escort, he says. If that's true, the fault for the convoy's vulnerability would lie not with its leader...