Saturday, March 22, 2003

"There was smoke everywhere. It's our first time in Iraq (news - web sites), and you see these four guys walking toward you with their hands up. We knew they were surrendering," said platoon leader Lt. William Todd Jacobs, 24, of Cincinnati.


"But then somebody shouts, 'There's two in the hole! There's two in the hole!'" said Jacobs.


The Marines reacted immediately, and shot both, then threw in a grenade that blew a plume of sand and black smoke out of the bunker.

Farther down, the road was blocked by a truck which had been hauling an artillery piece until a tank shell crushed it. Another truck was still in flames, its driver mostly burned to ashes.


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