this is a great article! Hoping we'll hear more like it in the days to come! Our brave troops are doing a wondeful job! 
Cheers and Smiles for U.S. Troops in a Captured City
By JIM DWYER
AJAF, Iraq, April 2 Hundreds of American troops marched into town at midday today and were greeted by its residents.
The infantry was backed by attack helicopters and bombers, and immediately destroyed several arms caches and took over a military training facility to serve as their headquarters.
The occupying forces, from the First and Second brigades of the 101st Airborne Division, entered from the south and north. They had seized the perimeter of town on Tuesday.
People rushed to greet them today, crying out repeatedly, "Thank you, this is beautiful!"
Two questions dominated a crowd that gathered outside a former ammunition center for the Baath Party. "Will you stay?" asked Kase, a civil engineer who would not give his last name. Another man, Heider, said, "Can you tell me what time Saddam is finished?"
Residents also pleaded for water and fuel, saying that supplies had been cut off for four days. Asked what else the people wanted, residents pointed to a building from which they said rocket-propelled grenades were launched, and asked the military to remove them.
Cheers and Smiles for U.S. Troops in a Captured City
By JIM DWYER
AJAF, Iraq, April 2 Hundreds of American troops marched into town at midday today and were greeted by its residents.
The infantry was backed by attack helicopters and bombers, and immediately destroyed several arms caches and took over a military training facility to serve as their headquarters.
The occupying forces, from the First and Second brigades of the 101st Airborne Division, entered from the south and north. They had seized the perimeter of town on Tuesday.
People rushed to greet them today, crying out repeatedly, "Thank you, this is beautiful!"
Two questions dominated a crowd that gathered outside a former ammunition center for the Baath Party. "Will you stay?" asked Kase, a civil engineer who would not give his last name. Another man, Heider, said, "Can you tell me what time Saddam is finished?"
Residents also pleaded for water and fuel, saying that supplies had been cut off for four days. Asked what else the people wanted, residents pointed to a building from which they said rocket-propelled grenades were launched, and asked the military to remove them.
