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  • Embedded With U.S. Troops in Ramadi (Get the Popcorn Ready...)

    03/25/2006 11:47:41 PM PST · by Old Sarge · 58 replies · 1,291+ views
    AP, via Forbes ^ | 26 MAR 2006 | Todd Pitman
    Sunday, 2 a.m. local RAMADI My flight to Ramadi left from a heliport in Baghdad's so-called "Green Zone." For Americans, this is probably the safest place in the country. It is a grid of protected streets along the banks of the Tigris River, surrounded by high concrete blast walls and coils of barbed wire, where suicide bomber-weary tank turrets point at passing traffic. There is high security here because this is home to the U.S. Embassy as well as the seat of the Iraqi government. Most everything outside, they call the "Red Zone." {{{ SNIP }}}
  • Embedded with U.S. troops in Ramadi

    03/24/2006 8:59:32 PM PST · by Old Sarge · 16 replies · 569+ views
    AP, via Mercury News ^ | Fri, Mar. 24, 2006 | Todd Pitman
    I've come to Iraq to embed with U.S. troops stationed in Ramadi, and Baghdad is a stopover. I'm hoping to get on a military helicopter flight there tonight. {{SNIP}} I haven't been to the Palestine Hotel, where AP's Baghdad offices are located, in a year. After a suicide bomber rammed through the high blast walls surrounding the hotel complex a few months ago, the place is still a wreck.