The capital of Iraq’s most rebellious province is undergoing a week of “relative peace and tranquillity,” Army Col. Gary S. Patton said.Minutes later, a roadside bomb exploded beneath his Humvee — the seventh time in the last 2 1/2 months.” I’m not going anywhere with that guy,” said Lt. Jonathan Morgenstein, a 32-year-old former teacher from Arlington, Va. “He’s like a shrapnel magnet.” Immediately after the bombing, Patton left his wounded translator and gunner in the care of medics and headed to a memorial service for a slain Marine, where he apologized for his late arrival.During a four-day period ending Monday, another roadside bomb and what soldiers here call routine ambushes killed four U.S. troops and wounded several more in downtown Ramadi and neighboring Habbaniya. An insurgent rocket soared harmlessly into the gap between a reporter’s tent and the mess hall. Small-arms fire on the outskirts of Camp Ramadi is so commonplace that troops no longer look up from their books and magazines. The deadliest attack occurred Monday, when a car bomb exploded outside a police station near Ramadi, killing 12 Iraqi police officers and wounding 10. Full Story
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