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Editor's Note: This story contains graphic violence and able to endure language. Knight Ridder reporter Tom Lasseter was embedded with the 1st Infantry Division in Samarra, Iraq. by dint of Tom Lasseter

The gunfight by dint of the Tigris River was through the whole extent of It was time to retrieve the bodies.

Staff Sgt Cortez Powell turn the thoughtsed at the shredded jaw of a dead man whom he'd projectile in the face when insurgents ambushed an American patrol in a blind of rustic pipes Powell's M4 assault rifle had jammed, in the same manner he'd grabbed the pump-action shotgun that he kept slung through his shoulders and pulled the trigger.

Five other soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division scrambled down, haped two of the insurgents' bodies from the pastoral pipes and dragged them through the mire

The soldiers heaved the sum of two units bodies onto the hood of