FUNNY, SOMEHOW I MISSED SEEING THIS ON CNN

More 1-36 Infantry raids...and in interesting Iraqi response.

At no point during the night did the Iraqis in their homes show hostility to the Americans.

In one house, two women appeared wide-eyed and tense with fear. But most, including women and children, seemed to take the searches in stride.

“What I did notice is the children, they didn’t cry, they didn’t feel threatened by us,” said Spc. John Lawton, 37, of Hampstead, N.H., a gunner who worked as the radio operator for the night’s operation. “We must be doing something right.”

Some thanked the Americans for their efforts.

At one house Bayles asked a question through the interpreter.

“Ask him if he knows any bad people in the neighborhood, anybody who’s causin’ trouble,” Bayles said.

“He says, ‘We have no information about anybody. We have the door closed all the time,’” the interpreter replied.

“OK sir, that’s great,” Bayles said to the man of the house.

Then an elderly woman in black stepped forward.

“She says, ‘You are doing this to help us. We must cooperate with you.’”