The Americans are still running heavy patrols into the city.
After the ambush on Devon Hill, the marines suspended further patrols into the north.
One morning, Lieutenant Corcoran, a blond twenty-four-year-old from North Attleborough, Massachusetts, set up a patrol into the surrounding hills.
The Americans, seeking to root out militants here, sent aggressive patrols into the heart of the sprawling, impoverished neighborhood on Saturday.
We went on patrol, into the casbah, and I think that was the first time I sensed the existential fear of living under constant threat.
The mosque, once a stronghold for the insurgents, was being used by the Americans as a forward base to run patrols into the old city.
As the number of American troops outside Kandahar increased somewhat, they continued sending out armored patrols into the countryside today, as their Cobra attack helicopters flew sorties overhead.
His battalion will continue to run regular patrols into the city, he said, and "will continue to respond to any attacks against Iraqi security forces".
So far, American forces have not gone out on patrol into the Basilan jungle with Philippine soldiers pursuing Abu Sayyaf fighters, Philippine officials said.
The Chinese had also sent jets on patrol into the contested airspace the day before, but Xinhua, the state-run news agency, indicated that the planes on Friday were scrambled specifically to respond to foreign jets in the area.
