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Platoon detects radiation on four trucks 

MICHAEL GILBERT; The News Tribune 



The Stryker brigade's nuclear, chemical and biological

reconnaissance platoon detected high levels of

radiation on four trucks attempting to cross the

Iraq-Turkey border, officials said Monday. 



The trucks emitted radiation signatures of more than

100 centigrade per hour, which could be dangerous

depending on how the measurement was taken.





Brigade officials said the platoon, from the 1st

Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment, was sent to the Habur

Gate border crossing Monday after Turkish authorities

called for U.S. military assistance. Officials said

they had no information about why the Turks were

suspicious of the vehicles.





The trucks were quarantined on the Iraqi side of the

border, brigade officials said. The platoon also was

inspecting other vehicles and a nearby scrap metal

yard, they said.





A team from Iraq Survey Group, the Pentagon

organization searching Iraq for weapons of mass

destruction, was expected to arrive at the scene in the

next day or so, officials said.





In other developments Monday:





•An estimated 2,500 former members of Saddam Hussein's

ruling Baath Party formally denounced the organization

in a mass ceremony in Mosul.





U.S. and Iraqi authorities have held similar

"deBaathification" ceremonies across northern Iraq over

the past several weeks, encouraging former soldiers,

police, school teachers and other public sector

officials to shed their former allegiance in public

together.





Iraqis say the party's reach was pervasive, and

virtually anyone who sought professional and business

advancement was expected to join. Another ceremony is

scheduled for today.





•The brigade's formal relief of the 101st Airborne

Division's 2nd Brigade, covering the city of Mosul, is

still several days away. But Stryker troops took over

most daily operations in the city Monday.





"We are in the game, although officially the battle

space still belongs to 2nd Brigade," said Maj. Mike

Kasales, the Stryker brigade's operations officer.





As if to mark the passing of responsibility, insurgents

shot at Stryker troops with a rocket-propelled grenade

and small arms, and local children led soldiers to a

hidden cache of weapons.





Soldiers from Bravo Company of the 2nd Battalion, 3rd

Infantry Regiment came under fire about 3 p.m. near an

Iraqi police station east of the Tigris River that had

been attacked the day before.





Insurgents fired an RPG that missed a Stryker vehicle

by about 50 yards. Troops searched a building where

they thought the fire came from but found no one,

officials said. There were no injuries.





Meantime, neighborhood kids led troops from Apache

Company of the 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment to

a pair of artillery rounds, a 23 mm gun and a 60 mm

mortar tube, officials said.





The mortar tube was found at the suspected point of

origin of an attack on a U.S. base the previous day,

brigade officials said.



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