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Zitat:A US soldier tells of unit's daily perilsTja, so ist das eben...
By Bill Johnson | October 24, 2004
Globe copy editor Bill Johnson, on leave for a stint with the Rhode Island National Guard, has been serving in Iraq since April. He wrote this on Thursday.
BAGHDAD -- It is a new season here. We are halfway through our projected one-year deployment. The daytime temperature is down to about 100 degrees. And as the Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins, insurgent attacks are growing more frequent, and more deadly.
Attacks last week showed, as if we needed a reminder, that the Green Zone in central Baghdad has become more dangerous, our base on the southern edge of the city has become more dangerous, and the roads we travel in between are more dangerous.
An early-morning rocket attack on our base killed two soldiers. We are hit practically every day now with mortar and rocket fire.
Suicide bombers breached the heavily fortified Green Zone for the first time. Back-to-back lunchtime attacks destroyed a restaurant and a bazaar, killing several people.
Rhode Island Guardsmen housed near the marketplace ran over when they heard the explosion, and had to help pick up body parts. I drove past the restaurant that afternoon to see a pile of debris and twisted girders.
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