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U.S. Airstrikes Back Troops in Baghdad Clash
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"They probably thought we had the whole area surrounded," said Schaeffer. "Which we didn't."
The soldiers said U.S. and Iraqi troops captured several insurgents in possession of gear belonging to the Iraqi soldiers killed two days ago. For the Iraqi troops, it was a special form of retribution.
"It was a big moral victory, and huge for their morale," Pearson said. "This is a statement that the Iraqi army is not going to back down."
"It was a day to remember," Callaghan said.
Also Tuesday, at least 31 people were killed when a cargo plane carrying Turkish citizens crashed while trying to land in thick fog at an airport in Balad, about 50 miles north of Baghdad, Turkish officials told news services.
On Monday, 10 days after Saddam Hussein's hanging, his trial on charges of ordering the killing of as many as 180,000 Iraqi Kurds continued without him. Prosecutors played audiotapes of Hussein's voice justifying the use of chemical weapons that would kill "thousands," the Associated Press reported.
"Kurdish people have been waiting for this moment," said Saad Barazanchi, a Kurdish legislator. "This is evidence that Saddam ordered chemical weapons to be used against the Kurds."
Special correspondents Saad al-Izzi and Waleed Saffar in Baghdad and Muhanned Saif Aldin in Tikrit contributed to this report.
