Light streams through the gunner's turret into the powder-fine dust that has crept into the humvee on desert roads to Camp Belleau Wood.  In our first full day reporting, we are taken by Marines from the 1st Mobile Assault Platoon, Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines Regiment to neighborhoods near the Euphrates River at the Syrian border, where there is major insurgent action. San Francisco Chronicle Photo by Kim Komenich  9/27/05 Photo: Kim Komenich
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