Month: November 2004
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TROOPS: Shadow of Vietnam Falls Over Iraq River Raids
November 29, 2004 By JOHN F. BURNS CHARD DUWAISH, Iraq, Nov. 28 – As marines aboard fast patrol boats roared up the Euphrates on a dawn raid on Sunday, images pressed in of another American war where troops moved up wide rivers on camouflaged boats, with machine-gunners nervously scanning riverbanks for the hidden enemy. That…
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COMBAT: After Falluja, U.S. Troops Fight a New Battle Just as Important, and Just as Tough
November 28, 2004 By JOHN F. BURNS CAMP KALSU, Iraq, Nov. 27 – As American commanders turn their concentration toward the area of sullen towns and villages that straddle the southern approaches to Baghdad, they face a battle that is in many ways as crucial to their hopes as Falluja has been. And they enter…
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A List of the Missing Is Not Enough
One day at a time, they pass. And the list of missing of Srebrenica and other victims of the Bosnian War is still not a list of the dead. Thank God for those who still bother to count.
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Tape Condemns Sunni Muslim Clerics
November 25, 2004 By JOHN F. BURNS BAGHDAD, Iraq, Nov. 24 – An audiotape was posted on the Internet on Wednesday in which a man identified as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian terrorist leader, condemned the Sunni Muslim clerical establishment in Iraq for abandoning the Iraqi resistance movement in the face of the American military…
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GoogObits: Charles Richard O’Neil
My uncle died this week. He had just returned from his birthplace, Pittsburgh, to visit his brother, my father, who is dying in his own right. One day at a time, everybody. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Jul. 15, 1920 Departed on Nov. 20, 2004 and resided in Southfield, MI. Service: Saturday Nov. 27, 2004 RETIRED BAKER…