FORT HOOD, Texas — Searchers found the body late Tuesday of a sergeant who was missing for four days after he disappeared during a training exercise, bringing to a close an intense ground and aerial search, an Army spokeswoman said.
Sgt. Lawrence G. Sprader, 25, went missing Friday during a solo exercise testing basic map-reading and [...]

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SUMTER COUNTY, Fla. — The war in Iraq is something that most of will never experience on a first hand basis. But the Florida National Guard wants to show employers how reservists train before going overseas.
At Camp Blanding Joint Training Center in Starke, there’s a simulated Iraqi town complete with native music. In the exercise, [...]

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Bureaucracy Hampers Terror War
Two years after the nation’s commando forces were given broad authority to attack terrorist networks, the elite units remain hampered by uncertainty over coordination says Navy Vice Admiral Eric Olson, who has been chosen to head the U.S. Special Operations Command.
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Fort Hood Searchers Find Dead Soldier
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U.S. military, Sunni insurgents in tactical alliance
By William S. Lind
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Good news continues to flow from a most unlikely place, namely Iraq’s Anbar province, home ground of Iraq’s Sunni insurgency: Al-Qaida has blundered and continues to blunder, attacking and alienating the local Sunni population.
Adapting, for once, more quickly than the insurgents, the [...]

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BAGHDAD, June 13 (KUNA) — US forces closed down on Wednesday all of Sadr city exits that connect the suburb to central Baghdad.
Correspondent of Kuwait News Agency said he saw US military tanks and bulldozers being stationed, blocking bridges over the waterway that separates Sadr city and central Baghdad.
Iraqi security members jointly with the US [...]

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IRBIL, June 13 (KUNA) — Insurgents blew up a major bridge connecting the northern cities of Tikrit to Kirkuk Wednesday, Iraqi police said.
A high-level police official Brigadier Sarhad Qader told KUNA, the insurgents planted explosives on Zghaiton Bridge and them off, demolishing a large part of it.
Bridges, some of which are major arteries throughout Iraq, [...]

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BAGHDAD, June 13 (KUNA) — Two US soldiers were killed and three others were injured in separate attacks in the Iraqi capital, the US Army said in a statement on Wednesday.
One US soldier was killed and two others were injured when improvised explosives blew up in a raid operation in Baghdad on Tuesday.
A similar incident [...]

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BAGHDAD, June 13 (KUNA) — Fiery blasts that badly damaged the two minarates of Al-Askari Shrine in Samraa earlier on Wednesday were caused by a mortar attack, the government-run Iraqi Television said.
Several mortar shells crashed into the courtyard of the holy site heavily damaging the two minarates, that bore cracks as a result of a [...]

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BAGHDAD, June 13 (KUNA) — A Georgian soldier suffered minor injuries in a blast of a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device that also damaged a bridge north- eastern Diyala province on Wednesday.
A source of the Multi-National Force (MNF) source said the explosion of the implanted explosives caused damage of the eastern part of the bridge while [...]

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San Salvador - At least two units in the Salvadoran military contingent in Iraq came under artillery fire by insurgent groups, El Salvador’s National Defence Ministry said Tuesday.
The attacks, which took place over the weekend, did not cause casualties.
El Salvador has some 380 soldiers deployed in Iraq and is the only Latin American nation that [...]

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