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The U.S. army is responding to the recent wave of suicide bombings in Iraq.
As many as 100 terrorists were killed in the first 48 hours of the offensive, which began late Saturday night, as U.S. troops cleared villages along the meandering Euphrates River, then crossed in rafts and on a pontoon bridge, the U.S. command said.
In one battle in Obeidi, an Iraqi town near the Syrian border, foreign fighters laid down in a narrow crawl space under a one-story house and fired their machine guns up through the concrete floor, according to a Washington Post journalist embedded with the U.S. Marines.
...”They came here to die,” it quoted Sgt. Chuck Hurley, one of the U.S. soldiers, as saying. “They were willing to stay in place and die with no hope. All they wanted was to take us with them.”
