by Oliver North
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
