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...intelligence believes is hiding in an area north of the city. In recent weeks, the soldiers and Marines in Ramadi have come under regular assault, forcing commanders last week to order reinforcements to the besieged city. In the past year, the Army's 2/28th Brigade Combat Team, the unit the Marines are attached to, has lost 79 men in Ramadi--yet the brigade's commander, Colonel John Gronski, says, "The level of violence remains about the same...
TIME spent a week with Kilo Company, the 120-person unit that goes head to head with the insurgents every day. The goal is to lure al-Qaeda into attacks, which Kilo Company has been doing successfully: in a single week, five men were wounded, three foot patrols were ambushed, and there were unrelenting attacks from small-arms fire and mortars. The experience of the Marines in Ramadi illuminates some of the shortcomings of the U.S. strategy for defeating the insurgency. The commander has only one brigade to secure the town, even though U.S. officers say privately that at least...
From the instant Kilo Company set foot in Ramadi, the Marines knew they were in the middle of an insurgent hotbed. Lance Corporal Jose (Syco) Tasayco was on the unit's earliest patrol outside the wire in March. "The first day was an eye opener. We got contact, that first patrol. It was like, wow, we couldn't believe it, but we got outta there good. Nobody got hit," he says. The Marines are based in the battle-scarred Government Center in the middle of Ramadi, a magnet for al-Qaeda attacks--one of the few ways the Marines...
...Neill said he and the producers were perplexed at what they perceived as a withdrawal of support by the Pentagon for the film, which premiered last week at the National Museum of American History. Paul Boyce, a Pentagon spokesperson, pointed out that 40 members of the unit attended the premiere and the film was also screened at 22 military installations. "Every person in uniform we've spoken to has said that we've presented the truth," O'Neill says...
...avoid Joe Wilson, whose presence at these sorts of things appears to have been written into D.C. liberals' social contract, but all together the wonky audience generated about much heat as Jennifer Lopez's little finger (a unit of measurement known as the "Gigli"). Fittingly, the carpet wasn't even red, but green, and there wasn't champagne but rather some perfectly serviceable California chardonnay that came in boxes. Or you could hit the "yogurt bar." I'm sure the reception in Cannes was different...