When the Jets beat the Patriots in the playoffs last season, it seemed a changing of the division guard was about to take place.
As many as 1,000 Iraqi irregulars have been killed as they tried to disrupt the advance of the American troops who are supposed to strike a front-line Republican Guard division guarding the approach to Baghdad north of Najaf.
WILD CARD: Ravens over Chargers, Jets over Colts DIVISIONAL ROUND: Patriots over Ravens, Steelers over Jets A.F.C. CHAMPIONSHIP: Patriots over Steelers When the Jets beat the Patriots in the playoffs last season, it seemed a changing of the division guard was about to take place.
The opening phase of the attack that began on Tuesday was intended to finish off the two divisions guarding the southern entrances to Baghdad, opening a hole to the city for allied troops.
When he took over, Sony was so dysfunctional and divisions guarded their territory so fiercely that managers working for one division wouldn't return phone calls from their counterparts in another division.
These divisions guarded an 18 mile perimeter which had an almost continuous antitank ditch, extensive barbed wire fence, and a double row of strong points.
To buy time, Johnston sent Gen. James Longstreet's division to guard the army's rear by setting up defenses halfway up the peninsula.
For now the Army (from the élite parachute division) is guarding the Interior Ministry and it's still possible, after the angry clashes with the Central Security riot police yesterday, if you squint in the right light, to perceive that "the people and the Army are one hand," as the chants at Tahrir in February once proclaimed.
Brigadier General George Sykes's division would guard the line.
The Belgian military could not build forward positions due to the proximity of the border, and therefore assigned an infantry division to guard the three bridges over the canal in the area, a brigade being assigned to each bridge.
