Idahoans in Action: Dateline Iraq

Blog from Iraq by Roger Phillips and Kim Hughes

• Moments of joy and beauty counter Iraq's despair and poverty - 03-01-2006
• Oruba by day: Children treat Humvees like ice cream truck - 03-01-2006
• Alpha raid Part II: 'Where they go, we have no idea' - 03-01-2006
• Alpha raid Part I: Search in Wahid Huzayran is not like the movies - 03-01-2006
• Kirkuk smiles back - 03-01-2006
• What's that on your screensaver, Sgt. Hicks? - 03-01-2006
• A happy moment for Kirkuk's commissioner of traffic - 03-01-2006
• Iraqi police officers die in bombing; soldiers see mortar attack damage - 03-01-2006
• 'Beige alarm:' Mortar attack interrupts lunch - 03-01-2006
• Meet Mitch, the Kirkuk eagle - 03-01-2006
• No shortage of irony in the mean streets of Kirkuk - 03-01-2006
• Bravo Company soldiers rock the Casbah - 03-01-2006
• The boy with the dead pigeon - 03-01-2006
• Table tennis, anyone? - 03-01-2006
• 1st Lt. Addleman, how does your garden grow? - 03-01-2006
• A reporter couldn't ask for better roommates in Iraq - 03-01-2006
• Visit to Iraqi home makes soldiers homesick for Idaho - 03-01-2006
• I went to Iraq to cover a war, and ended up covering a kindergarten pageant - 03-01-2006
• One way to avoid gas lines in oil-rich Iraq - 03-01-2006
• Dig in! Lunch with Iraqi police is, uhm, interesting - 03-01-2006
• Bravo Company's Great Barbarian Bunny Hunt - 03-01-2006
• 'What the world needs now, is love, sweet love...' - 03-01-2006
• Kirkuk calm ends as 116th responds to fatal bombing - 03-01-2006
• Soldier carries his security blanket to Iraq - 03-01-2006
• Soldiers get turkey for Easter -- Iraqi-style - 03-01-2006
• The flames of Shadrack, Meshak and Abednego - 03-01-2006
• 'Are you Ali Baba? Where's Ali Baba?' - 03-01-2006
• 7,000 miles away from home and alone on a rooftop in Iraq - 03-01-2006
• Like the last day of school - 03-01-2006
• A Humvee is a hard place to catnap in Kirkuk - 03-01-2006
• On the ground: pops of gunfire, reek of sewage - 03-01-2006

Photo Galleries by Kim Hughes

• Rebuilding Kirkuk - 03-01-2006
• Soldiers in Kirkuk - 03-01-2006
• Ambush on police station - 03-01-2006
• Security in Kirkuk - 03-01-2006
• Oruba Day Patrol - 03-01-2006
• Kirkuk Refugees - 03-01-2006
• Soldiers playing softball - 03-01-2006
• Soldiers get combat patches - 03-01-2006
• Oruba Night Patrol - 03-01-2006
• Scenes around Kirkuk - 03-01-2006
• A day with the DeValls - 03-01-2006
• Climbing the wall in Iraq - 03-01-2006
• Easter in Kirkuk - 03-01-2006
• Life on Base - 03-01-2006
• Operation Eagle - 03-01-2006
• Kurdish New Year - 03-01-2006
• Glimpses of Kirkuk - 03-01-2006
• Traveling with Bravo Company - 03-01-2006
• 116th Soldier Gallery - 03-01-2006

Stories

• Commander says 116th should be home by Christmas - 03-01-2006
• Daughters follow father into 116th and into Iraq war - 03-01-2006
• Rebuilding Kirkuk takes some different tactics - 03-01-2006
• Telling the most important story - 03-01-2006
• Snipers keep watch through Iraqi night - 03-01-2006
• TV links Iraqis and their leaders - 03-01-2006
• Securing Kirkuk is a complicated task. Reporter Roger Phillips explains how Idaho soldiers are trying to get the job done. - 03-01-2006
• Guard offers Iraqi police a lesson in traffic control - 03-01-2006
• Idaho soldiers see how Kurdish refugees live - 03-01-2006
• Soldiers get combat patches, place in history - 03-01-2006
• Brent’s in Iraq. Jaime’s in Caldwell. - 03-01-2006
• A long way from home - 03-01-2006
• Soldiers describe worst fears as roadside bombs - 03-01-2006
• Meet three men who speak for Idaho's soldiers in Iraq - 03-01-2006
• Car bomb in Kirkuk kills one - 03-01-2006
• Eagle-based relief effort receives cash, donated goods - 03-01-2006
• Soldiers test their limits with homemade climbing wall - 03-01-2006
• Easter dinner as made in Iraq loses a bit in translation - 03-01-2006
• Making a home in Kirkuk - Soldiers outfit patrol base with touches of Idaho - 03-01-2006
• Amid war and poverty, the children smile - 03-01-2006
• Looking for bad guys in 'the underbelly of Kirkuk' - 03-01-2006
• Kelly Anderson and Donna Frye's efforts bring kindness and gifts to Iraqi kids via the Idaho troops of the 116th - 03-01-2006
• Religion plays a strong role in Iraq - 03-01-2006
• Soldiers walk a fine line between helping out, waging war - 03-01-2006
• Boise journalists reporting from Kirkuk find the 116th Brigade serves as ambassadors as well as soldiers - 03-01-2006
• Statesman editor: Sending team to Iraq is hard but important - 03-01-2006
• From Idaho to Kirkuk: five days, 10 time zones, 7,000 miles - 03-01-2006