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...Hanifa mosque, where insurgents were believed to be storing weapons. Colgan instructed the soldiers to bang the lid of each crypt; if it sounded hollow, the troops hoisted the 250-lb. granite slab and looked inside. On its second graveyard hunt, on July 4, the platoon netted a rocket-propelled-grenade launcher and 31 RPGs. A later search turned up a stash of the explosive C4. Afterward, the platoon nicknamed itself the Tomb Raiders...
...they experience almost paralyzing fear every time a U.S. soldier dies in Iraq, then gut-wrenching guilt over their relief it wasn't Billie. They avoid the news whenever possible. Wanda's worst moment was seeing, on CNN, a still smoking armored ambulance that had been hit with a rocket-propelled grenade in Baghdad. The vehicle was just like the one Billie drives. "It was all I could do to hold it together and not become hysterical at work," says Wanda, a nurse...
...complete dark in August, and for hours no one had a clue why the power grid had crashed or how on earth to fix it. The glitch that guaranteed that the space shuttle Columbia would disintegrate on re-entry occurred at lift-off, and none of the rocket scientists at NASA saw it coming. A sizable proportion of military deaths in Iraq were caused not even by enemy combat but by accident, human error, friendly fire...
COVER: A member of a six-person cell, photographed in Baghdad Sept. 20, 2003. The man, holding a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, declined to give his name but said his group was prepared to use force to persuade the U.S. to leave Iraq. Photograph for TIME by Yuri Kozyrev
...various stages of their training. Rifki also gave police a breakdown of the courses most recruits underwent?ranging from a basic four-month stint to two years for potential instructors. All cadets received training in infantry tactics, weaponry (everything from pistols to automatic rifles, light machine guns, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades), map reading and explosives. Rifki told police that the explosives section included "actual samples of TNT, black powder, PETN, ammonium nitrate and C4. Students also worked with detonators, detonating cords, blasting caps and timing devices (alarm clocks). Practical exercises were conducted with 100 grams of explosive material...