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Brothers in Arms: Tim, Cpl. Lee on right

April 1, 2003

We relieved Kilo (company) around a 2.5 km square Iraqi ammunition storage position. [They blew it up]. Kilo and tanks are in town blowing shit up against moderate resistance. We are in the reserve again : ) [in the back of the battalion]. 15 Iraqi dead, 30 wounded 50 POW. All dug in along our original patrol.

April 2, 2003

Moved NE towards Tigris, crossed the Saddam canal. Saw Iraqi dead soldiers set up in an ambush that never happened. RPGs, rifles, grenades.

Slopped down in a hasty D(efensive position) for the night.

April 3, 2002

Al Kut

Refueled, resumed. Crossed the Tigris. We are behind the Kilo ready to go. ROE are getting looser. [Iraqi] tanks, guns, heavy equipment lay to waste.

Delta found our 11 soldiers, 6 dead. The female PFC had broken arms, gun shot, but still alive [Private Lynch et al].

The Army wasted the Medina Division, we were supposed to fight (them). We are 70 miles from Baghdad.

Refueling again. Saw a Medivac of two Marines.

I found an Iraqi flag today in small army outpost on outskirts of Al Kut

Email from Annie to Timmy Times Subscribers

April 1

Last update for a while.

Jim and I are heading out tomorrow morning and will be gone until 4/14, so everything is up to Tom for a while. Just keep checking the Laurent Rebours stuff. You can do a Yahoo News search just like I showed you for Laura Rauch.

So here is my update.

I was having trouble sleeping about 3:30am....had the TV on MSNBC and suddenly I heard the anchor women say she was take a phone call from a reporter with the Marines... 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines India Co. The reporter was Gary Scurka from Natioal Geographic Explorer. He put a Capt. Tim on the phone(it wasn't our Tim) the Capt said they had just finished a fire fight and had taken some prisoners and all his marines were fine. They had liberated some smokes. He declined to say where they were, but said they had been traveling north from Kuwait thur rural areas. Now they were in more urban areas and pretty central. They were keeping the roads cleared of the militia so the convoys could get through, but they were heading north. The reporter spoke of how he was impressed with their treatment of the prisoners, and getting them good medical treatment etc. I had alredy figured they were at Diwaniyah from the AP stories and the photos of Laurent Rebours.

Annie





			Brothers in Arms: Tim, Cpl. Lee on right

	April 1, 2003 We relieved Kilo (company) around a 2.5 km square Iraqi ammunition storage position. [They blew it up]. Kilo and tanks are in town blowing shit up against moderate resistance. We are in the reserve again : ) [in the back of the battalion]. 15 Iraqi dead, 30 wounded 50 POW. All dug in along our original patrol. April 2, 2003 Moved NE towards Tigris, crossed the Saddam canal. Saw Iraqi dead soldiers set up in an ambush that never happened. RPGs, rifles, grenades. Slopped down in a hasty D(efensive position) for the night. April 3, 2002 Al Kut Refueled, resumed. Crossed the Tigris. We are behind the Kilo ready to go. ROE are getting looser. [Iraqi] tanks, guns, heavy equipment lay to waste. Delta found our 11 soldiers, 6 dead. The female PFC had broken arms, gun shot, but still alive [Private Lynch et al]. The Army wasted the Medina Division, we were supposed to fight (them). We are 70 miles from Baghdad. Refueling again. Saw a Medivac of two Marines. I found an Iraqi flag today in small army outpost on outskirts of Al Kut Email from Annie to Timmy Times Subscribers April 1 Last update for a while. Jim and I are heading out tomorrow morning and will be gone until 4/14, so everything is up to Tom for a while. Just keep checking the Laurent Rebours stuff. You can do a Yahoo News search just like I showed you for Laura Rauch. So here is my update. I was having trouble sleeping about 3:30am....had the TV on MSNBC and suddenly I heard the anchor women say she was take a phone call from a reporter with the Marines... 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines India Co. The reporter was Gary Scurka from Natioal Geographic Explorer. He put a Capt. Tim on the phone(it wasn't our Tim) the Capt said they had just finished a fire fight and had taken some prisoners and all his marines were fine. They had liberated some smokes. He declined to say where they were, but said they had been traveling north from Kuwait thur rural areas. Now they were in more urban areas and pretty central. They were keeping the roads cleared of the militia so the convoys could get through, but they were heading north. The reporter spoke of how he was impressed with their treatment of the prisoners, and getting them good medical treatment etc. I had alredy figured they were at Diwaniyah from the AP stories and the photos of Laurent Rebours. Annie