Articles 1.17.2005

CBS News and CBS4 TV have the text and video from a somber 60 Minutes segment with the 2/5 Marines in Ramadi that aired on 1.16.2005. The report follows patrols of Whiskey Company from their base at Hurricane Point and along the main road that has been dubbed "Route Michigan". Several Marines describe the nature of the insurgency in Ramadi. The report showed footage of an interview with Cpt. Patrick Rapicault, who was killed in Ramadi on 11.15.2004. The segment noted that 14 Marines have been killed (9 from Whiskey Company) and 150 Marines have been wounded from the battalion since their arrival in September.
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The Associated Press mentions action in Ramadi: "Also Monday, a suicide car bomber struck a U.S. military convoy in Ramadi, a Sunni insurgent stronghold 70 miles west of Baghdad. There were no reports of casualties, apart from the [suicide car] driver."
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