Father fills soldier-son’s request for spotlights to search for IEDs
By JOE BOOMGAARD Daily News Staff Writer Corey Beekman, a graduate of Mason County Central, serves with the 1461st Combat Unit out of Jackson, a unit stationed in Fort Speicher, near Tikrit, Iraq.
The unit performs armored transports mostly at night, after curfew.  Their armored [...]

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IRBIL, Jan 31 (KUNA) — An improvised bomb exploded near an Iraqi patrol Wednesday killing one soldier and injuring two others in the city of Kirkuk northern Iraq.
Iraqi military source said the improvised bomb exploded close to an Iraqi police academy in Al-Waseti district resulted in the killing of one Iraqi soldier injuring two others.
Among [...]

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BAGHDAD, Jan 31 (KUNA) — Authorities located on Wednesday dead bodies of three professors who were kidnapped in the north of the capital on Sunday, the ministry of education said.
The ministry said in a statement that the corpses of the professors, who had taught at the Law Faculty of Al-Nahrain University, Dr. Adnan Al-Abed, Dr. [...]

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BAGHDAD, Jan 31 (KUNA) — Two booby-trapped cars blew up in the Iraqi capital on Wednesday wounding seven people, police said.
Police said four people were wounded in blast of a car bomb near Al-Khulafaa Mosque, located on Al-Jumhouriah Street in the center of the city. Three others were wounded in an identical incident that occurred [...]

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BAGHDAD, Jan 30 (KUNA) — Four Iraqis were killed and 10 injured when a booby-trapped car exploded in Al-Amin neighborhood, southeastern Baghdad, Wednesday.
Iraqi security sources said the car was parked outside a bakery on Al-Jomhoriya street.
Local police sealed the area of the attack, as they feared another attack could happen soon after.(end) mhg.
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American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30, 2007 – American military engineers in Iraq discovered and detonated an anti-tank mine; Iraqi police were attacked by an improvised explosive device; and Iraqi soldiers nabbed an insurgent during operations in Iraq over the past few days, officials said.
During a route clearance mission east of Baqubah yesterday, soldiers from [...]

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BAGHDAD, Jan 31 (KUNA) — Joint Iraqi and US troops found uniforms identical to those worn by the US marines in a warehouse east of the capital, revealed a statement by the US army Wednesday.
The statement quoted a US army captain as saying the equipment and uniforms found were enough to supply a whole army [...]

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LONDON — Regarding the arrest, the UK Home Office said Home Secretary John Reid had been fully briefed on what it described as a "nationwide operation".
A Home Office spokeswoman said "We can confirm that a major counter terrorism operation took place earlier today led by West Midlands Police." "Eight arrests under the UK Terrorism Act [...]

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BAGHDAD, Jan 31 (KUNA) — The US army in Iraq has said that its warplanes bombed an insurgent cell whose members were pounding northern Baghdad with mortar shells.
A US Army press release Wednesday said warplanes and helicopters from the Task Force Baghdad bombed the group of insurgents in a northern Baghdad district.
According to the release, [...]

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American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30, 2007 – A U.S. Marine was killed in western Iraq yesterday, military officials reported, and the Defense Department has identified five earlier casualties.
The Marine was assigned to Multinational Force West and died from wounds suffered due to enemy action during operations in Anbar province.
The servicemember’s name is being [...]

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