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...first direct engagement came during a dusk sandstorm on the edge of a housing development where they had dug in to await the Marines. While talking with a family in a nearby house, members of Fox Company's 3rd Platoon came under heavy fire from the militants. At his lookout post on the roof, Lance Corp. Manuel Beccerarodriguez ducked as 7.62mm rounds snarled past his head. Staff Sergeant Michael Ventrone ordered his Marines to get on the roof and fight their way out of the ambush...
...works. Bush made a day trip last Thanksgiving and played to boffo reviews, eating turkey with the troops and taking everyone by surprise. Rumsfeld flew secretly to Iraq with just a few aides and, not surprisingly, a press pool. His notices were equally positive as he choppered through a sandstorm to the Abu Ghraib prison and then to a pep rally at the palace that had several hundred troops cheering. Rumsfeld seemed as moved by that welcome as he had seemed stunned by his congressional grilling the week before, when he conceded that it was "possible" that the situation might...
...Simon Robinson: One of my most vivid memories is singing Three Dog Night's Joy to the World with the U.S. Marines in the Amtrac I was traveling in during the terrible sandstorm that hit on Day Four. Later that night, huddled in the vehicle, I discovered I could sing at the top of my lungs, so sing I did; in particular, Throw Your Arms Around Me by Australian band Hunters and Collectors...
...taxi driver) sang along with (rather tunelessly) as we finally headed out of Baghdad for Amman. Simon Robinson One of my most vivid memories is singing Three Dog Night's Joy to the World with the U.S. Marines in the Amtrac I was traveling in during the terrible sandstorm that hit on Day Four. Later that night, huddled in the vehicle, I discovered I could sing at the top of my lungs, so sing I did; in particular, Throw Your Arms Around Me by Australian band Hunters and Collectors...
...beautiful young people in major roles. The boy and girl in Abjad, the captive in Silence, even the bearded militant, are all such photogenic folks. And the girl who plays the militant's stepsister is an especially lovely child of perhaps 14. When she says fretfully that a sandstorm heading for their village could mean the end of the world, the young fundamentalist allows a smile to crease his stern face. "As long as there are beautiful girls like you," he says, "the end of the world will never come...