News Tribune reporter Sean Cockerham and The Olympian photographer Tony Overman covered local troops in Baghdad and Mosul, Iraq, for several weeks in Sept.-Oct. 2006. For news stories and photographs, visit our Military section
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CAMP LIBERTY, Baghdad -- Finally, we’re embedded.
It took almost six days from the time we left Tacoma to make our way to Baghdad, get our press credentials from the Army and link up with the Fort Lewis troops we’ve come to Iraq to cover.
Anyway, I can now finally start writing some stories. We’re embedded with Comanche Company of the 1st Battalion of the 23rd Infantry. These are some of the Fort Lewis Stryker soldiers who were diverted from their planned deployment in Mosul to help with the fight in Iraq’s dangerous capital.
These guys are responsible for the predominately Sunni neighborhood of Ghazaliya and the mainly Shiite neighborhood of Shulla. The two neighborhoods are divided by a creek which doesn’t really flow because it’s overloaded with sewage.
Comanche Company lost two soldiers in late August when a massive improvised explosive device tore into their Stryker vehicle. Things haven’t been as bad since. But the wild card is that the Muslim holy month of Ramadan starts on Sunday. A lot of people expect an attempt to step up attacks on U.S. forces during the holy holiday.
-- Sean Cockerham
