War Stories: Operation Iraqi Freedom

  Task Force Tarawa, 68, 73, 77, 199–200; Baghdad and, 72, 158; An Nasiriyah and, 81–82, 84

  Task Force Tripoli, 198–99, 201, 203

  Terrigino, SFC, 223, 225, 226, 227–28, 229

  terrorism: UN and, 253; war on, 39, 256–59

  Tet offensive, 118

  Texas, 131

  3rd Commando Brigade, British, 55, 72

  3rd Infantry Division, 27, 68, 71, 103–4, 173

  3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 27, 54, 72, 170

  3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (Reinforced), 52

  Tigris River, lii, 10, 84; march to, 125–30, 135–38

  Tikrit, Iraq, 198–203; 4th Infantry Division and, 220; embedded reporting in, li–lvii; Saddam’s palace in, 223–25

  Time magazine, 5, 6, 9

  Toolan, John, 171

  Treasury Department, 49

  Tulfah, Sajida, xxvi

  Tunisia, 208

  Turkey, xxiii, xxvii, xliv, 104, 216–17; Operation Iraqi Freedom and, liii

  Tuwayhah, Iraq, 143, 150

  Twentynine Palms, Cali., 20

  Umm Qasr, 55

  United Nations (UN): delay of Operation Iraqi Freedom by, 20, 251–53; Oil-for-Food Program of, xliii, xlvi, 197, 236, 252–53; Operation Iraqi Freedom and, 38, 44, 243; political machinations of, 20–21; Powell’s speech before, 21; Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait and, xxxviii–xxxix; terrorism and, 253; Turkey and Operation Iraqi Freedom and, liii

  UN Security Council, 34, 43

  United States: Operation Iraqi Freedom and, 38; Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait and, xxxvi

  U. S. Central Command (CENTCOM), 42, 173; beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom and, 46, 53–54; Lynch rescue and, 130–31; operational pause and, 115; press center and, 14; Saddam’s WMDs and, 168

  U. S. Navy, 41, 52

  Ur, Iraq, 69

  Vallely, Paul, 85

  V Corps, 71, 103, 116, 126

  Victory Arch, xxxiv

  Vieira de Mello, Sergio, 252

  Vietnam, lv, 50, 100, 117–18, 243, 246; combat in, liv; media in, 8–9

  Wahhabis, xxi

  Ward, Jason, 63

  war on terrorism, 39

  War Stories, 143

  Washington, D.C., li, liii, 38, 110

  Washington Post, 6, 121, 250

  Waters-Bey, Kendall Damon, 60, 63

  Waxman, Henry, 4

  Wayne, John, 250

  weapons of mass destruction (WMD): Hussein and, 34; precautions against, 25–26; Saddam and, 43, 168–69, xxxiii–xxxiv, xlv–xlviii; search for, liii, 133, 168–69, 220, 252–55

  Welch, Raquel, 250

  Wennes, Sean, 31

  West, Francis “Bing”, 111–14

  White, Duffy, 180

  Williamson, Ken, 28, 30–31

  Wills, Jesse, 91, 93

  Witt, Jason, 121–22

  Woolsey, James, 257

  World War I, 44

  World War II, xxiii, lv, 217, 220, 244, 249

  Yugoslavia, 209

  Zaidan, Nawaf al-, 236–38