Operation netted suspects, weapons; no Americans killed

IRAQ IN TRANSITION: IN HAQLANIYAH

GIs launch new tactic against enemy fighters

By James Janega
Tribune staff reporter

May 3, 2005

HAQLANIYAH, Iraq -- After an hour of shooting, rocket-propelled grenades were still crisscrossing in front of Sgt. Aaron Hanselman, and he was looking at the horizon for backup as bullets snapped through the air around his men.

"It was whizzing by. Our gunner swears that a couple hit the Humvee," said Hanselman, 28, a mobile assault team leader and Marine reservist from Marysville, Ohio.



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