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Suddenly, a northern ridge on the Pakistani side erupts in gunfire. Then from the south, inexplicably, a Pakistani militia unit occupying a border outpost on the hillside unleashes five rocket-propelled grenades at Grenz and his men. The Pakistanis are supposed to be helping the Americans. It's something the Americans will puzzle over later, when the fighting stops. "There were about 20 muzzle fires on the northern ridge," Captain Craig Mullaney later recalls. One was a sniper, who, from a distance of 600 yds., hits Private First Class Evan O'Neill, 19, twice precisely below his flak jacket, shearing...
...monopolized public attention to the exclusion of the issue of how it affects our troops.” Duh! When was the last time you saw headlines like “2 GIs Killed North of Baghdad” (surely last week) or “Rocket- Propelled Grenades Kill U.S. Soldier in Iraq” (not a day before that) make the front page? We are embarrassed for not realizing that with so much talk of all the infant mortalities in Iraq and the homeless on our streets, there’s simply been no room...
...that rocket of a slapshot...
...supposedly being overlooked by the media. But the men fighting the U.S. occupation from the shadows had a media agenda of their own, systematically spoiling Wolfowitz's PR party by a series of well-timed attacks on key locations and installations. Hours after Wolfowitz left Tikrit, insurgents using a rocket-propelled grenade downed a U.S. Black Hawk helicopter. Worse was to come: On Sunday, they fired a fusillade of rockets at the Baghdad hotel where Wolfowitz was staying, as if to show that even the most heavily guarded piece of real estate in the capital can't be adequately protected...
...sets off the mines with a crank detonator connected to them by wires; the others provide covering fire. Lately they have begun staging more elaborate, two-phase attacks that require up to a dozen men. In these missions, after mines are set off under convoys, hidden fighters launch rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) at the stopped vehicles and spray them with machine-gun fire...