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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...enemy would not get the jump on Charlie Rock. A civilian pick-up had been spotted five hundred meters out on their right flank, another one crammed with people vanished behind a sand bungalow 1,200 meters away at their two o'clock. Here on the outskirts of Ash Shinariya, a small town on the Euphrates 200 kilometers south of Baghdad, crews spent their night watching thermal imaging detectors in Bradley fighting vehicles. They'd been picking up enemy scouts probing their sandbagged positions blocking a bridge over the Euphrates, five kilometers south west of town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charlie Rock Strikes Back | 3/30/2003 | See Source »

...embarked for Kuwait on board the U.S.S. Rushmore in early January. The last time he wrote to his foster mother he complained he couldn?t keep the sand out of his tent or food. Less than a month later he was dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Death, A Marine Gets His Life Wish | 3/28/2003 | See Source »

...unexplored. My 400-mile journey from the southwestern Pakistani town of Quetta to Ribat Qila took 13 hours by pickup truck, the last part of it on a dirt track, slaloming between huge boulders. Off in the distance was an ancient Mogul army outpost, half-submerged by drifts of sand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatch: On Osama bin Laden's Trail | 3/24/2003 | See Source »

...Between Abu Gharib and Faloujah, to the west of the capital, there are scores of huge Mercedes trucks surrounded by mounds of sand. The Iraqi military may be preparing to use them as rocket launchers. Lots of cannons and anti-aircraft batteries were also seen to the right side of the road. Near Faloujah, there were three, apparently short-range rockets (similar to the Al Samouds) placed horizontally on tracks. The rockets were about 9 feet in length each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baghdad Prepares to Fight | 3/24/2003 | See Source »

...Phan Thiet lies on one of Vietnam's finest stretches of sun and sand, and the French-colonial presence still lingers in the town's slow, relaxed atmosphere. Binh Thuan province, where the town is located, was part of the Cham kingdom until the late 1600s. The Cham Towers, the largest monuments built by the Cham people, still stand on a hill overlooking the town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unspoiled Vietnam | 3/23/2003 | See Source »

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