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Mansuriyah

Oct-15-2007 » Filed Under: 4/2 SBCT

Patrick Lair, who is serving with the 115th MPAD, accompanied a group of 4/2 SBCT soldiers during an operation in Mansuriyah. He details the operation on his blog. Excerpt:

In addition to the attacks, AQIZ had also buried numerous explosives in the town’s one road connecting them to the rest of the valley, essentially cutting them off from the rest of the country. When insurgents blew up the town’s water pumps and generators, they were left in quite a bad position.

For an entire day, American and Iraqi security forces slowly rolled up the dirt road to Mansuriyah, finding and detonating buried explosives and searching the surrounding farms and homes for illegal weapons and insurgent activity. As we neared Mansuriyah, people gave us reports that we would meet a large crowd once we got to town.

I was riding in a Stryker vehicle at the time, which, from inside its steel belly, provides no glimpse of daylight to its passengers. So it was quite a shock when the vehicle came to a halt and the rear ramp dropped to a scene of more than 1,000 men and boys, crowding in together in downtown Mansuriyah.


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