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Company raids town after GI wounded

Mar-16-2004 » Filed Under: 3/2 SBCT

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By Seth Robson, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Tuesday, March 16, 2004

HAMAM AL ALIL, Iraq — Two weeks after Pvt. Seth Tribble was wounded by a grenade in the northern Iraqi town of Gab Adr, his buddies went back to send a message to his attackers.

The 2nd Infantry Division’s Company B, 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment marched into Gab Adr on Sunday along the newly named Phase Line Tribble, which runs past the place where the grenade attack occurred.

Soldiers raided several nearby houses searching for weapons and terrorists, but there was no all-out attack by anti-coalition forces that informants had warned would happen the next time Company B entered the town.

The only sign of resistance was a scrawled note in Arabic left in the street exhorting locals to “kill U.S. soldiers.”

However, a few hundred meters away, down one of the town’s hundreds of narrow alleys, soldiers ran into a man dressed in an Iraqi army jacket and a red-and-white checkered head scarf who refused to obey commands to get off the street.

Company B responded by raiding the man’s house.


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