Americans Trade Fire With Insurgents in Western Iraq
SABRINA TAVERNISE and JAMES GLANZ, New York Times, June 19, 2005
KARABILA, Iraq, June 18 - American tank fire boomed across this dusty village in western Iraq on Saturday, and insurgents sporadically lobbed mortar shells in return as about 1,000 marines continued a day-old offensive amid a warren of dirt streets in an effort to return the area to Iraqi government control.
Laundry fluttered from clotheslines outside what appeared to be mostly abandoned houses, and a single white flag flew above one rooftop in a town that was almost silent except for the firing and the rumble of American humvees. By Saturday afternoon, most of the remaining resistance appeared to come from a single position in the western part of Karabila.
KARABILA, Iraq, June 18 - American tank fire boomed across this dusty village in western Iraq on Saturday, and insurgents sporadically lobbed mortar shells in return as about 1,000 marines continued a day-old offensive amid a warren of dirt streets in an effort to return the area to Iraqi government control.
Laundry fluttered from clotheslines outside what appeared to be mostly abandoned houses, and a single white flag flew above one rooftop in a town that was almost silent except for the firing and the rumble of American humvees. By Saturday afternoon, most of the remaining resistance appeared to come from a single position in the western part of Karabila.
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