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REPORTING FROM THE IRAQ WAR

Disaster in Waiting -- Paul Bremer's first few days do not bode well.
The New York Post, May 16, 2003 - with the 54th Engineer Battalion

Cheered GIs Get Down To Business of Peacekeeping -- The Scouts of the 4th Battalion/64th Armored Regiment headed off in their Humvees yesterday on a "presence patrol." Their destination: the New Market district of Baghdad, one of the poorest neighborhoods on the West Bank of the Tigris.
The New York Post, April 25, 2003 - with the 4/64 Armored Regiment Scout Platoon in Baghdad

S*T*A*S*H Unit: $oldiers Show Way To 200G -- After a senior commander made an emotional appeal for GIs to come clean, the soldiers accused of swiping hundreds of thousands of dollars from a Baghdad money cache led probers yesterday to $200,000 that was still missing, military sources said.
The New York Post, April 24, 2003 -- with the 4/64 Armored Regiment Scout Platoon in Baghdad

Brits Go Undercover as Yanks --They're tough, seasoned and lethal when they need to be - and they're working secretly in Baghdad, masking their identity by wearing U.S. Army uniforms and traveling in U.S. military vehicles. (Click here for the original exclusive dispatch.)
The New York Post, April 23, 2003 -- with the 4/64 Armored Regiment Scout Platoon in Baghdad

4 GIs Planned to Pinch $12M -- Probers Find Boxes Of Cash -- Four GIs arrested and charged with stealing nearly $1 million in cash from money found hidden in Baghdad had intended to filch another $12 million, The Post has learned.
The New York Post, April 23, 2003 -- with the 4/64 Armored Regiment Scout Platoon in Baghdad

GIs Arrested In $1M Swag Snag - Army: 4 Dipped Into $700M Stash --Four sticky-fingered GIs have been arrested for trying to steal nearly $1 million of the $700 million in cold cash found hidden on the grounds of several estates in Baghdad, Army officials said yesterday.
The New York Post, April 22, 2003 -- with the 4/64 Armored Regiment Scout Platoon in Baghdad

GIs Find $700M Treasure Chest -- U.S. Bills Turn Up in Abandoned Homes --Two Army sergeants looking for a chainsaw to cut down a tree next door to their headquarters in Baghdad stumbled upon a king's ransom today.
The New York Post, April 19, 2003 -- with the 4/64 Armored Regiment Scout Platoon in Baghdad

GI 'Cops' Foil $5M Bank Heist - Salvage U.S. Bills Amid Baghdad Robbery-Riot -- U.S. troops were forced to play bank guards yesterday after daring thieves blew a hole in a packed vault - and hundreds of Iraqis rioted as they tried to get their share.
The New York Post, April 18, 2003 - with the 54th Engineer Battalion

The Scandal of the Army's Mail -- Some troops on the front lines haven't received mail in two months. Our soldiers deserve better
The Weekly Standard, April 15, 2003 - with the 54th Engineer Battalion

Seizer's Palace in GIs Hands -- GIs here are now playing the palace - the 258-room New Presidential Palace on the west bank of the Tigris River, where Saddam Hussein once held court and an Army armored division is now quartered.
The New York Post, April 14, 2003 - with the 4/64 Armored Regiment Scout Platoon in Baghdad

Liberators Bridging Power Gap -- The simple note, written in a blend of Arabic and broken English, was left two days ago at a U.S. checkpoint on the Euphrates, 20 miles southwest of Baghdad. (Click here for a related dispatch.)
The New York Post, April 9, 2003 - with the 54th Engineer Battalion

Prison Life Agrees With Captured Foes -- Life would appear to be pretty good for the Iraqis captured this week in the fierce battle for control of a key four-lane bridge over the Euphrates River.(Click here for a related dispatch.)
The New York Post, April 5, 2003 - with the 54th Engineer Battalion

Crossing the Euphrates - Fierce Guard No Match for Advancing GIs -- The Army's 299th Engineers could smell the honeysuckle as they dodged bullets and ferried the infantry across the Euphrates to take on the entrenched Republican Guard.
The New York Post, April 4, 2003 - with the 54th Engineer Battalion

Racing Toward Baghdad, Singing of Home -- The 54th Engineers were keyed up and prepared for an ambush yesterday as they headed into the Karbala Gap - the last stepping stone to Baghdad.
The New York Post, April 3, 2003 - with the 54th Engineer Battalion

Anxious GIs Can't Wait To 'Kick Ass' And Go Home -- The men and women of the 54th Engineer Battalion had just set up camp in another bleak spot in the desert yesterday, and were expecting to be stuck there a while.
The New York Post, April 2, 2003 - with the 54th Engineer Battalion

'Embeds' Learn Grunt Language -- My first briefing as an "embed" in the 130th Engineer Brigade was a relentless blizzard of acronyms interspersed with catchphrases and strange slang - my introduction to Military English, a dialect all its own.
The New York Post, March 30, 2003 - with the 54th Engineer Battalion

Engineers Rest Up As Dust Settles -- Finally, a day of near-rest for the 54th Engineers - interrupted by a frightening chemical scare.
The New York Post, March 29, 2003 - with the 54th Engineer Battalion

Eerie Ghost Town Greets Troops Amid The Grisly Debris of Battle -- Things are strangely still, here in Al Kifl, a town on the east bank of the Euphrates taken yesterday by the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division - a town whose outskirts mark the deepest point of the American advance to Baghdad.
The New York Post, March 28, 2003 - with the 54th Engineer Battalion

Advancing Troops To Get A Piece Of Republican Guard -- Heading north toward the Euphrates river on a bombed-out Iraqi blacktop, this dark, rumbling line in the sand stretches for miles in each direction.
The New York Post, March 23, 2003 - with the 54th Engineer Battalion

Sand-Blasted Soldiers Circle Their Wagons To Sit Out Storm -- The war rages nearby but they can't do anything about it. They're bogged down in a sandstorm in a near-endless desert and all they can do is wait.
The New York Post, March 27, 2003 - with the 54th Engineer Battalion

V Corps' Advance Comes To A Sand-Still In Storm -- A dark orange light cast an other-worldly glow as the V Corps circled its "wagons" - guns facing outward - to hunker down while the desert sands raged about them.
The New York Post, March 26, 2003 - with the 54th Engineer Battalion

Liberation - Freed Iraqis Debunk Peaceniks' Posturing -- You may know the statistics: The sixth of the Iraqi population that lives in exile, the 100,000-plus disappeared persons of the Kurdish "anfal."
The New York Post, March 24, 2003 - with the 54th Engineer Battalion

Bloody Road To Nasiriyah - 10 Marines Slain As Americans Seize Key City -- U.S. forces faced the fiercest fight of their desert march to Baghdad yesterday when Saddam Hussein's loyalists inflicted more than 60 causalities during ambush attacks before Marines wrested control of the southern city of Nasiriyah.
The New York Post, March 24, 2003 - with the 54th Engineer Battalion

'Real Deal' Sends Warrior Morale Sky-High -- Using the Kuwait-Iraq border as the line of scrimmage, Spc. Corey Montgomery punted a football deep into Iraqi territory - despite his cumbersome chemical suit.
The New York Post, March 21, 2003 - with the 54th Engineer Battalion

U.S. Launches Freedom War: Missiles Target Iraqi Leaders - Bombs Explode In Baghdad - Allies Take Over Iraqi Radio -- American forces began taking down Saddam Hussein's despotic regime last night, as a months-long buildup ended with a massive assault on Iraq.
The New York Post, March 20, 2003 - with the 54th Engineer Battalion

U.S. Troops On The Doorstep : Ready to Invade Any Minute As Jets Pound Missile Sites -- U.S. warplanes bombed targets in southern Iraq yesterday as ground troops advanced to the border - ready to invade at any moment.
The New York Post, March 20, 2003 - with the 54th Engineer Battalion

The Price of Delay; Morale's Holding Out - For Now -- There is a price to be paid for further delay in the impending war with Iraq, beyond the strengthening of the antiwar movement - a price to be paid in the deserts of Kuwait and Iraq.
The New York Post, March 15, 2003 - with the 54th Engineer Battalion

Troops Turn Desert Hellhole Into Home -- As a group of reporters prepared to set out for Camp Virginia in the endless desert between Kuwait City and Iraq, a Fifth Army Corps officer warned them: "It will be like the worst camping trip you ever went on."
The New York Post, March 11, 2003 - with the 54th Engineer Battalion