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...This morning we sped along the road back toward Tikrit. I dozed a little, no longer looking for dangers all along the road, until we suddenly saw figures running away from a large gas station, and heard long bursts of automatic fire. My driver Karim, who had not fully recovered from the previous day, saw other cars turning in front of us, did a U-turn and floored the gas. I forced him to stop and we checked the situation with oncoming vehicles...
...only bad guys, at least on this day, were the looters. Thousands of Kurds entered the city Thursday morning and with barely a struggle occupied the city behind the rapidly fleeing Iraqi forces. Almost immediately hundreds of pickups, buses, taxis and dump trucks full of cheering Kurds sped down the road from the Kurdish capital city of Erbil. On the other side of the road was a similar procession away from Kirkuk, and these cars were loaded high with looted goods...
...started heading toward them along the river. Talraas could see more "technicals" moving across the bridge about a thousand meters off to the left. That's when the white van appeared, its red lights flashing. After they were shot at, Talraas' driver, Sergeant Michael Maita, hit the gas and sped back to the southeastern corner of the town. Maita had been shot in the hand. "But," said Talraas, "he kept his wits about him and they got out of there," Maita shouting "Medic! Medic!" as they tore back to safety...
...only Turkish, and the locals just Kurdish and Arabic. "We don't like them, the Turkish government is the most brutal in the world," said one resident, Fadhil Tomar. "After the war, if they don't leave the peshmerga will come and kick them out." At that, a pickup sped up with a couple of Turkish soldiers and a Kurdish-Turkish translator. We were asked to leave...
Botterill scored her initial goal late in the first period. After receiving a pass from fellow captain Jamie Hagerman, Botterill sped through BC’s zone and fired a shot past Eagles’ goalie Lisa Davis and into the top left corner...