Author: DXO
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Marines’ Raids Underline Push in Crucial Area
December 6, 2004 By JOHN F. BURNS MAHMUDIYA, Iraq, Dec. 5 – For marines staging a night raid on suspected rebel hide-outs across this insurgent heartland outside Baghdad, heading out of their heavily fortified base at midnight on Friday was a moment to make sinews stiffen. Clearing the base’s maze of dirt-filled blast barriers, Marine…
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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…