This story appears to have been published yesterday under a different title.
Link to Full Article By Kirsten Scharnberg, Chicago Tribune
BAIJI, Iraq -- By military estimates, the odds in this unruly city situated at the apex of the Sunni Triangle should be firmly in favor of the Americans.
In a nine-hour raid that began well before dawn Monday, more than 600 soldiers stormed house by house through some of Baiji's most troublesome neighborhoods. Armed with a list of "high value targets" that included names, aliases and physical descriptions, they searched for the "less than a couple dozen" insurgents who the Army commander here estimates have made this dusty city a hotbed for insurgent bombers. [...]
On raids like this, GIs must be sleuths in armor
This story appears to have been published yesterday under a different title.
Link to Full ArticleBy Kirsten Scharnberg, Chicago Tribune
BAIJI, Iraq -- By military estimates, the odds in this unruly city situated at the apex of the Sunni Triangle should be firmly in favor of the Americans.
In a nine-hour raid that began well before dawn Monday, more than 600 soldiers stormed house by house through some of Baiji's most troublesome neighborhoods. Armed with a list of "high value targets" that included names, aliases and physical descriptions, they searched for the "less than a couple dozen" insurgents who the Army commander here estimates have made this dusty city a hotbed for insurgent bombers. [...]
