Dustin Sexton, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by John C. Worsencroft, September 12, 2009: Saving the Legacy tape no. IA-5

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DU TI E TO PT B R 12 20 9 stayed I think he stayed in that building and provided some sort of uppr i n that way. Corporal Wright had already bounded across the street. Sergeant dwards squad bounded after that. Then we started pushing up to that corner but as soon as we'd g t close to getting a fix on the enemy, they would drop all their weapons and run back a block out of our range. They would run to the next weapons cache. After the couple bounds of that, they ran away and things were quiet again. We started patrolling the streets, trying to move forward. I didn't know this at the time, but 2nd platoon had actually never moved forward past that second street while we were still pushing forward. So we ended up pushing farther forward and they stayed back there for whatever reason-I think it was because they were scared. So we pushed forward and everybody kept coming out on the street and telling me, "Ali Baba, Ali Baba," which I knew meant bad guy. Then they'd point and I couldn't figure out where they were pointing to. They kept, "up ahead, up ahead, Ali Baba, Ali Baba." So we're looking on our map, trying to get them to point on their map. We didn't have an interpreter. We didn't have a map that they could read. We had a map that barely I could read. They couldn't figure out what was what and they couldn't tell me what building. So I called it in, told Major Kover the radio, I said, "Hey, we've got reports of Ali Baba up ahead." He told me to continue forward. "Push forward so you can get engaged." All right, roger that. So we kept pushing forward. The way we were moving, Spencer was kind of moving at a diagonal and we were kind of moving forward and he was moving a little bit south west and we were moving a little bit more western, so we were kind of splitting up; we were shuffling left quite a bit as we were moving. We were losing sight of the river if 82