For marines on raids, an eerie silence
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Apparently lifeless towns like Haswah, a chronic site of insurgency, may typify what control US-Iraqi forces can achieve.
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The Marine Corps said yesterday that it received fewer blast-resistant vehicles than promised last month, as manufacturers struggled to meet production goals aimed at speeding shipments to Iraq and Afghanistan.
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By PAUL ORTIZ Y PINO For the Journal  For those of us who don't live along the Unser corridor, things sure seem to have been getting done, very quietly.
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The capital of tiny East Timor was quiet but tense on Tuesday, a day after thousands of supporters of rebel leader Alfredo Reinado burned tires and threw stones to protest a raid by international troops on the fugitive's hideout.
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Tom Cruise and the crew of his new film, "Valkyrie," held a minute of silence for German anti-Nazi heroes as the team prepared to film at the site where they were executed, a fellow cast member said in comments published Sunday.
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Residents of the neighborhood where 24 Iraqi civilians were allegedly massacred by Marines say the military investigation has been surprisingly thorough. But that doesn't mean they can ever forgive, or forget, what happened
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For the Second Battalion, Eighth Marines, the monotonous cycle of life sometimes keeps an Iraqi police station from being overrun.
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An eastern Kentucky Marine whose battle-grimed face has quickly become a symbol of the fighting in the Iraqi city of Fallujah says he doesn't understand what all the fuss is about.
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They are highly trained, field-tested Marines, and like many in their number they have an unenviable task: to tell families that a loved one has been killed. But nothing could have prepared first Sgt. Timothy Shipman and the two Marines in his team for Carlos Arredondo's reaction.
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After the second funeral for multiple casualties in a month, Army Sgt. John McCary logged on to a computer shared by 200 troops in Iraq's Al Anbar province. There wasn't much time. There never was, to pause, reflect, find meaning. Even after the deaths of friends. McCary, an interrogator, was busy...
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From their positions across Iraq's dangerous and insurgent-dominated Anbar province, more than 20,000 Marines quickly and quietly marked Thanksgiving on Thursday &#151; then got back to work.
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Users of one of suburbia's most basic conveniences -- the garage door opener -- are locked in an odd situation with the U.S. Marine Corps.
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The oxygen-depleted "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico, long a subject of scrutiny by scientists, is only now becoming less of a mystery.
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Through the scattered towns and along the dangerous roads of an area that one commander described as "kind of like the worst place in the world," U.S. Marines, British soldiers and Iraqi security forces are waging an offensive they say is vastly different from the urban warfare waged elsewhere in Iraq in recent weeks.
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The noise of the two Black Hawk helicopters shattered the eerie silence that yesterday had enveloped the city of Najaf. On board were a team of five Iraqi ministers led by Minister of State Kasim Daoud.
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The chief of intelligence for the Marine Corps in Iraq recently filed an unusual secret report concluding that the prospects for securing that country's western Anbar province are dim and that there is almost nothing the U.S. military can do to improve the political and social situation there, said...
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American military commanders now seriously doubt that Iraqi security forces will be able to hold the ground that U.S. troops are fighting to clear &#151; gloomy predictions that strike at the heart of Washington's key strategy to turn the tide in Iraq.