Summary
HAQLANIYAH, Iraq - When the sun rose, the Marines of Lima Company found themselves surrounded by improvised bombs.
A week of rigorous patrols and sporadic fighting had brought the troops from the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment through the Euphrates River towns of Hit and Haditha to the outskirts of the small village of Haqlaniyah.See the full content of this document
Extract
Marines Patrol in Region That Even Saddam Avoided
There they waited until dawn on a recent Wednesday to push into the river settlement, the end of an operation designed to harass insurgents fleeing north from Ramadi and Fallujah.
But outside Haqlaniyah the insurgents found the Marines first. They had dug explosives i...See the full content of this document
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