Rushing to the defense of the Baghdad Sniper
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'If you were smart you would keep your mouth shut' Letters Our story on the Google Video footage celebrating Juba, the Baghdad Sniper may or may not have been the cause of the clip having been removed. What we can say for sure is it ruffled the feather of many a reader. The award for most most outraged blowhard goes to JÃ¼rgen, whose 1151-word diatribe is included in its entirety at the end.â¦
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We made it back into the house last night. There were National Guardsmen at key checkpoints in Poway that were set up to protect neighborhoods from looters. These young men were carrying fully loaded M16s. For a quick second I thought I was in a war zone. That was incredibly intimidating for me.
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FORWARD OPERATING BASE WARHORSE, Iraq -- The race started like any other, with the pop of a gun and the slap of sneakers on hard mud. The sun had begun to peek above the purple horizon, and the air was New England cold.
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BAGHDAD -- US military and Iraqi security forces have begun a massive effort to seal off Baghdad with a ring of reinforced checkpoints, berms, trenches, barriers, and fences, in an attempt to clamp down on insurgents, officials said yesterday.
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Abu Ghraib, Iraq -- As truck driver Hamid Taleb Shal al-Zubavi and his wife drove their pregnant daughter to a midwife in Fallujah several weeks ago, the family came under fire from snipers.
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The Black Watch&#39;s new base in Iraq has come under attack for the third day running. Insurgents have fired mortars at Camp Dogwood south of Baghdad.
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An eyewitness account of the vicious battle to retake the  Iraqi city
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The fierce fighting for control of Fallujah is underway and Hoosier troops are there, trying to take over the Sunni stronghold through urban warfare.
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The U.S. commander for northern Iraq called for reinforcements yesterday, citing a rise in sectarian attacks and other violence in his region as Iraqi and American forces focus on securing Baghdad.
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American forces are gearing up for a major operation in the insurgent bastion of Fallujah, where up to 5,000 Islamic militants, Saddam Hussein loyalists and common criminals are hunkered down, U.S. officers said Friday.
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Inside Baghdad's fortified Green Zone, Samir Zedan dons a flak jacket and helmet. But Zedan is not your typical high-level U.S. government employee: He is Palestinian.
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WASHINGTON - US and Iraqi troops are now racing to crush the fighters who have now moved into Iraq&#39;s third largest city of Mosul.
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Baghdad's streets were electric with tension Wednesday as U.S. officials confirmed the new security operation was under way. U.S. armor rushed through streets, and Iraqi armored personnel carriers guarded bridges and major intersections.
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It&#39;s touted as the safest place in Baghdad, but even the thousands of normal Iraqis whose homes wound up in the US-occupied Green Zone want
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Insurgents have chosen mobility to counter far superior US artillery and missiles in battle of Fallujah. By Ibrahim Mohamad - FALLUJAH, Iraq.
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Because of the large scale of the offensive operation in Fallujah, the ammo guys have been working nearly nonstop, trying to fill orders for U.S. and Iraqi security forces who continued Sunday to battle the last holdouts of insurgents and foreign fighters.
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US Marines appeared yesterday to be moving closer to a decisive battle in the Sunni Triangle area west of Baghdad, where insurgents are using violence and intimidation