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Kevin Sites Blog: Fallujah Street by Street by Lost at 3:54 pm EST, Nov 14, 2004
] The Marines are operating with liberal rules of ] engagement. ] ] "Everything to the west is weapons free," radios Staff ] Sgt. Sam Mortimer of Seattle, Washington. Weapons Free ] means the marines can shoot whatever they see -- it's all ] considered hostile.
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Kevin Sites Blog: Fallujah Street by Street by Decius at 5:24 pm EST, Nov 14, 2004
] As a squad from India Company passes by a way with a ] spray painted rocket propelled grenade launcher -- a real ] RPG round explodes against it. One Marines' face is ] burned by the powder and hot gas -- another has caught ] shrapnel in the leg, a third has been shot in the finger ] by the small arms fire that followed. The Marines are ] outraged. They turn their M-16's on the building to the ] west where they believe the shooter is hiding. But that's ] just an appetizer.
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Kevin Sites Blog: Fallujah Street by Street by noteworthy at 8:17 pm EST, Nov 14, 2004
Our humvees pass by a body of a man in the center of the street. There is a hole through his left eye socket where a Marine sniper round passed cleanly through. Insurgent snipers begin firing in front of the Marines. One round pierces the Kevlar helmet a twenty-year-old Mark 19 gunner -- in my vehicle. He is badly wounded. He's put in a canvas stretcher and six Marines run through the streets carrying him to a waiting military ambulance. The Marines know they are being hunted. Boxed from the east and the west in a treacherous kill zone by an enemy they can feel -- but can't see. Their superior firepower is checked by the insurgents' knowledge of the city -- their cunning in using blind alleyways and the crooks and crannies of buildings to pick off the Marines.
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Kevin Sites Blog: Fallujah Street by Street
by Rattle at 9:52 pm EST, Nov 14, 2004

Our humvees pass by a body of a man in the center of the street. There is a hole through his left eye socket where a Marine sniper round passed cleanly through.
Insurgent snipers begin firing in front of the Marines. One round pierces the Kevlar helmet a twenty-year-old Mark 19 gunner -- in my vehicle. He is badly wounded. He's put in a canvas stretcher and six Marines run through the streets carrying him to a waiting military ambulance.

The Marines know they are being hunted. Boxed from the east and the west in a treacherous kill zone by an enemy they can feel -- but can't see. Their superior firepower is checked by the insurgent's knowledge of the city -- their cunning in using blind alleyways and the crooks and crannies of buildings to pick off the Marines.

Kevin Sites checks in from the front lines of the Battle of Fallujah. You can almost smell the gunpowder, as you sit safely behind your monitor.

Semper fidelis!