2004 - Color, Iraq War: Operation Black Typhoon. 09Sep04

2004 - Color, Iraq War: Operation Black Typhoon. 09Sep04 Slate: 09Sep04 Tal Afar, Iraq. Operation Black Typhoon. Charlie Company, 5th Battalion, 20th Inf. Rgt, 3rd Brigade 2nd Inf. Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team). 13:11:36 NIght vision fighting w/ tank firing. Tracers fired in low light. 13:12:21 US soldier / medic bandaging hand of Iraqi woman, while she calls to someone. 13:12:38 US soldier & Iraqi soldier / translator talking to Iraqi policeman; others talking w/ tanks or Strykers in b.g. 13:13:04 Four soldiers along tall walled warehouse to large metal gate; large eight-wheeled Stryker armored vehicle breaks down door. Int. of mostly empty warehouse, some canvase bags, pipes & forklift. 13:14:21 Soldiers in dark hallway cutting lock on door, try to kick in door, finally opens into small office or conference room & troops kick in inner door & leave. 13:15:42 Soldier on top of Stryker vehicle w/ portable metal grinder / saw, off back of vehicle & walks along trying to start w/ pull-rope. Into building w/ it running & cuts hinges on security door, then kicks in inner door; kick in next door, room empty. Uses battering ram on another door as Iraqi man watches. 13:17:31 Ext. w/ soldiers on steps outside metal door, cuts lock w/ grinding wheel, enter. Tal Afar haven of anti-coalition activities. NOTE: Operation Black Typhoon, 09Sep04 - 14Sep04.