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...their first push into Iraq was gone by the time they got there. Columns of U.S. and British tanks, trucks, humvees and armored personnel carriers fanned out across the southern Iraqi desert on the road to Baghdad. In the war's first days, Bedouin campsites were a more common sight than Iraqi garrisons. Some U.S. troops could barely hide their disappointment at not coming under enemy fire. "What the hell did we come here to do?" asked First Sergeant William Mitchell, 34, a member of Charlie Rock Company, the 3rd Infantry Division's 3rd Brigade Combat Team, as his crew...
Though a late rally put the fourteenth-seeded Harvard women’s basketball team within sight of victory, third-seeded Kansas State’s performance from the charity stripe proved what the Wildcats knew all along—there’s no place like home...
...Peshmerga "the Pesh." "We were doing well until that sniper," a Special Forces soldier tells his buddy. "I wanted to drop some mortar on top of him but the pesh were too close." On this day's battle, three American snipers lay behind a rock, patiently waiting to sight their Ansar counterparts far above in the Shram Mountain. "There's a sniper playing with us," says a soldier. The American snipers' high-powered rifles crack intermittently. After the incoming rounds seem to cease, they pick themselves up. "I think between us we smoked three guys, sir," one says...
...When I passed my first Bedouin family I thought of them as noble, living a lifestyle virtually unchanged since the fall of Babylon. However, the sight of young children at the side of the road begging for MRE's (the U.S. military's "meals ready to eat," which most Americans would consider barely edible) made me look a bit harder at what I was seeing. It occurred to me that this was not just an activity the kids thought would be fun. Rather, it had all of the appearances of an organized effort...
...unsparing observer of the regime's victims, particularly the foreigners who sought refuge at the embassy. When a group of them are finally given safe passage to Thailand, one American journalist fills his only bag with silver plate stolen from the embassy dining room. At the final checkpoint, within sight of freedom, a French radio announcer, hysterical with fear, renounces his Khmer bride and allows her and her child to be dragged away...