Major TOM BRYANT (Spokesman, 3rd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division): About a month ago, we started receiving intelligence from our Iraqi partners, reports that indicated a number of insurgents operating in this area northeast of Samarra, avery isolated, rural area, a lot of farms, a couple of small villages, but kind of a no man's land.
And I think that's very difficult without a mentor, an older person, a wise man or woman, to give you the kind of plan to say, okay, this is a strategy in the 21st century.