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US FORCES making house-to-house searches in the bombed-out remains of Fallujah may have found the headquarters of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian terrorist mastermind. Soldiers picked their way carefully through a heavily defended building with thick concrete walls and a large sign in Arabic which read “al-Qaeda Organisation” and “There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger”. Al-Zarqawi’s group is called “al-Qaeda in Iraq”. In their search of the badly damaged building, American soldiers made some gruesome discoveries, including those of several bodies and a ski mask. Documents, computers and photographs were taken away to be analysed...

One of our readers, a soldier who has served in Iraq, has contributed the following account of an engagement in which he was wounded several times. With the exception of minor editorial revisions, none of which alter in any way the substance of his account, the words are his. My company is fuel transportation. We are the Army Reserve 724th Transportation Company. But in Iraq we have civilian contractors Kellogg Brown and Root. They do all the fuel hauling. So we basically become force protection for convoys. Friday, April 9th, about 7 a.m., my platoon started getting ready for a...