Dragon’ Soldiers Seize, Destroy Bomb Factory
 
By Multi-National Corps-Iraq
Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory

BAGHDAD — Baghdad soldiers seized a bomb-making factory, along with another large weapons cache while on patrol in the eastern portion of the Rashid District of the Iraqi capital June 11.  Full Story 

Airmen receive first AF Combat Action Medals 
by Staff Sgt. Monique Randolph, [...]

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Nancy Pelosi and Harry "Tokyo" Reid declare pre-emptive defeat in Iraq.  read more…

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While waiting to see if the Iraq surge strategy pays off, President George W. Bush and Defense Secretary Robert Gates have shown General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the door and brought in Lieutenant General Douglas Lute as the new White House "war czar."
Well, they can shift senior leadership all they [...]

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Baghdad, 15 June (AKI) - US soldiers on Friday reportedly arrested three Iranian diplomats north of Baghdad. The officials had first been detained by Iraqi forces who had subsequently freed them, allegedly after the intervention of the Iraqi foreign ministry. In January, US troops arrested five Iranians in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil, saying [...]

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BAGHDAD, June 15 (KUNA) — A curfew was announced on Friday in the southern oil-rich city of Basra after an explosion leveled the Talha bin Obeidullah shrine in suburban Zubair, a statement said.
The statement issued by the office of the Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri Al-Maliki said that the curfew started at 4:00 pm local time [...]

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IRBIL, June 15 (KUNA) — Iraqi police sources in Kirkuk said that one young boy was killed when an improvised bomb targeted a police patrol in Mosul.
The source added unknown gunmen also shot and killed three Iraqi civilians in Al-Ma’ared district in the city and killed them instantly.
On another front, Multi-National Force (MNF) said today [...]

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BAGHDAD, June 15 (KUNA) — Iraqi forces have discovered a huge weapon’s cache hideout during patrol duty in Al-Yarmouk area near the green-zone in Baghdad, US military said on Friday.
The US military said in a statement that among other things the weapon’s cache contained 113 landmines, 63 hand-grenade, three missiles, three mortars, two gas masks, [...]

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BAGHDAD, July 15 (KUNA) — About 650 Iraqi and MNF soldiers were sent to Samarra Thursday in order to reinforce security there on the aftermath of the explosions which struck two Shiite Shrines on Wednesday, said a statement for the Multi-National Force (MNF) on Friday.
The statement went on saying that 590 Iraqi troops representing the [...]

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Recently, I traveled to Washington, D.C. Early one morning, I had a couple of hours to myself, so I stole away for a few moments of solitude and reflection in Arlington National Cemetery. You might say I was drawn by the knowledge that approximately 1 in 10 soldiers killed in Iraq are buried there. For [...]

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Former Avon firefighter Brian Joyce faced gun-toting soldiers and bribed border guards on a perilous 3,000-mile journey taking two fire engines to Iraq. Security concerns meant few people outside the fire service knew of the mission. But now an account of his journey has been published in a book called Road to Iraq. JULIE HARDING [...]

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