NEAR BAQUBA, Iraq (AP) - The sweat dripped from Lt. Kurt Chapman's face. The 4th Infantry Division platoon commander had just set a trap for a group of Iraqi ambushers - and he was the bait....
When Chapman's men first ventured out of the base onto the road toward ``RPG Alley,'' a strip of road 45 miles northeast of Baghdad where American forces have come under attacks by rocket-propelled grenades, the two-Humvee convoy kept its lights on - to lure in attackers.
Using slow-moving convoys to bait attacks on ambush-prone roads is a common U.S. tactic in Iraq, where hit-and-run fighters are impossible to discern until they open fire....
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