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...forces, the collaboration of Iraqi informants has become a critical weapon in the fight against the insurgency. Lieut. Colonel Steven Russell, commander of the 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, says that by working from Iraqis' tips, his troops, together with the elite special-forces team Task Force 20, are knocking out resistance cells and collapsing the support structure around Saddam. Recent raids, a U.S. intelligence official tells TIME, have come tantalizingly close to capturing the ex-dictator. "I can't say that the bed's been warm" when the special forces have raided suspected hideouts, he says, "but there...
...American forces are zeroing in on their main prey. With the sons disposed of, military officials last week received flurries of reports on Saddam's whereabouts. Says Lieut. Colonel Steven Russell, commander of the 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, which is based in Saddam's hometown of Tikrit: "Any time we have seen a capture or killing of deck-of-cards people, we see a very positive effect, with a lot more people coming forward with information." On Thursday, during a raid south of Tikrit, soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division captured what the Pentagon said were "five...
Russell is doing his best to oblige. "We get nothing if we do nothing," he says, and so he sends his 22nd Infantry Regiment out on almost daily raids and ambushes. The strategy is clear. As long as the coalition forces keep up the pressure, says a Pentagon official, Saddam will eventually make a mistake and be caught. "It's just a matter of waiting for Murphy's Law to kick in," says this official. At the same time, the steady stream of arrests of Saddam loyalists, the Americans hope, will eat away at his support structure. "He needs money...
LONDON, England—Kelan J. Turrington was only 18 years old when he was killed in action in Basra, Iraq on April 6. He was a Fusilier in the British Army’s Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, and for me he personifies the American, British and Iraqi fighters who fought and died proudly in a war based on false information. In an interview, his mother said, “We all really, really loved him. We were so proud of him.” At the funeral, one of Kelan’s friends, Darren Bone, said...
...maybe they used to say the same thing about Saddam Hussein. But then I went out on a patrol with the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment in Sadr City, which has some of the meanest streets in Iraq. The kids everywhere treated the GIs as friends, which I took as some sort of measure of how many of their parents must feel, too. It's possible they were nervous, or putting up a facade, at the sight of heavily armed foreign soldiers in their midst. But I found the same sentiment while interviewing Iraqis in different parts of the country. Whenever...