Triangle of Death Hostage Search: Day 7

There is probably no non-urban area in Iraq more challenging to conduct a search for captured soldiers than the Triangle of Death.

The triangle is crisscrossed by irrigation ditches and canals that flow from the Euphrates River, which makes the dragnet for three U.S. soldiers abducted a week ago by an Al Qaeda-led ambush party extremely difficult.

The fertile region is dotted with family-owned farms growing barley and wheat, date palm groves, villages and small towns like Cargouli, where the ambush took place, and occasional mansions that once belong to Saddam Hussein loyalists.

But the biggest reason is that the area southwest of Baghdad – not to be confused with the larger Sunni Triangle — is not called the Triangle of Death for nothing.

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