Word: patroller
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True, armed soldiers patrol Bogotá's wide, modern streets, and you'd be wise to leave your jewelry in the hotel before you head out - but who cares when all that glittery stuff awaits you in the museum...
...area remains dangerous, but safe enough for Captain Jon Brooks to begin sending his men out on foot patrol as much as possible. Last week Brooks and his men walked to a meeting at one of the battalion's other outposts in Ghazaliya...
...that foot patrol, residents told American soldiers that they were relieved to have U.S. forces in the neighborhood. An Iraqi who lives in the neighborhood and reports for TIME confirmed that the sentiment seems genuine rather than simply saying what the Americans want to hear...
...intimidation - a mother who drives her son everywhere for fear that a lone young man with an obviously Sunni first name will disappear at a checkpoint; an old man who accused the Iraqi Army of murdering his son; a shopkeeper who said children swarm around American soldiers on patrol but scatter at the approach of the Iraqi Army...
...recent foot patrol in south Ghazaliya at least two Sunnis who spoke with American soldiers said they had recently moved from Huriya. That neighborhood north of Ghazaliya is dominated by the Mahdi Army, Moqtada Sadr's Shi?ite militia that has been pushing Sunnis out of their homes in Baghdad. Those refugees, like other Sunnis in Ghazaliya, said they welcomed the American presence but did not trust the Shi'ite-dominated Iraqi Army. The wall is only as effective - and as fair - as the men guarding it. Sunnis must now pass through Iraqi Army checkpoints on their...