Online NewsHour: An Embedded Reporter Discusses the U.S. Marines Latest Mission in Western Iraq

PBS ^ | 2005 May 16

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	MILITARY OFFENSIVE IN IRAQ

	May 16, 2005
	A published report on a week-long battle between Marines and insurgents in western Iraq, near the Syrian border, said Marines were outgunned. A discussion with embedded reporter Ellen Knickmeyer, Baghdad bureau chief for The Washington Post, about her report.

MARGARET WARNER: Ellen Knickmeyer, welcome. Thanks for joining us. Give us a sense, first of all, how big this Marine offensive was in the west, and why did they launch it now?

ELLEN KNICKMEYER: It was the largest operation they've had since Fallujah. At one point they had -- when I was watching, they had helicopters up in the air, they had bomber planes above and Marines on the ground and U.S. Army people on the River Euphrates. So it was a pretty big and coordinated attack.

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