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To: Neeka who wrote (15898)	11/11/2003 8:49:23 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793690

What appears to be an extremely good series of articles by an embedded reporter is appearing in the "San Francisco Chronicle." It started yesterday and will run all week. Book to follow, I am sure. ___________________________________________ MCCOY'S MARINES: DARKSIDE TOWARD BAGHDAD John Koopman Monday, November 10, 2003 ©2003 San Francisco Chronicle \| Feedback URL: sfgate.com/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/11/10/DD49371.DTL Chapter 1: Welcome to the Marines . . . A seat on war's 50-yard line . . . Men in uniform will be killing people . . . A patch of paradise, here's Kuwait . . . Keeping up with Kilo Company . . . The time has come . . . Darkside's pep talk, clubbing baby seals . . . Staring into the face of death. DARKSIDE They called me Paperboy. Even as a newspaper reporter, I'd seen little death. And I'd never seen anyone die. But I wanted to see a war. So when I had the chance for a seat on the 50-yard line in Iraq, I took it. I was what they called an "embedded reporter." I rode along with the Third Battalion, Fourth Marine Regiment, as it loaded up in Kuwait and crossed into Iraq. The Marines fought, killed, and some died; and they were the ones who pulled down the statue of Saddam Hussein. The unit was led by Lt. Col. Bryan P. McCoy. Radio call sign: Darkside. sfgate.com

To: Neeka who wrote (15898)	11/12/2003 12:45:42 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793690

I don't think we are going to observe "Ramadan" anymore. _________________________________________ MILITARY General Vows to Intensify U.S. Response to Attackers By JOHN F. BURNS NEW YORK TIMES BAGHDAD, Iraq, Nov. 11 — Stung by the deaths of nearly 40 American soldiers over the past 10 days, the top American military commander in Iraq spoke of a "turning point" in the conflict on Tuesday and outlined a new get-tough approach to combat operations in areas north and west of Baghdad, strongholds for loyalists of Saddam Hussein. Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez said operations would be stepped up against shadowy groups behind the increasing tempo of attacks on American troops in the Iraqi heartland between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Those groups have been mounting ambushes, triggering roadside bombs and shooting down American helicopters. He confirmed that the Black Hawk that crashed Friday, killing six soldiers, had been shot down; a missile strike on a Chinook on Nov. 2 left 16 dead. "We are taking the fight into the safe havens of the enemy in the heartland of the country where we continue to face former regime loyalists, criminals and foreign terrorists, who are trying to isolate the coalition forces from the Iraqi people and break the will of the international community," General Sanchez told a heavily guarded news conference in the Iraqi capital. He added, "They will fail." REST AT nytimes.com