American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, July 9, 2007 – Afghan and coalition forces working in concert across Afghanistan today detained three insurgents, including a Taliban field commander, and uncovered weapons caches, military officials said.
Afghan national security forces and coalition advisors using accurate intelligence located and killed a key Taliban leader and discovered a weapons cache near [...]

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American Forces Press Service

BAQUBAH, Iraq, July 9, 2007 – Iraqi army and coalition soldiers from Task Force Lightning continued offensive operations in and around the capital of Iraq’s Diyala province today, as Operation Arrowhead Ripper continues to deny resources to al Qaeda terrorists during its 20th day in the area.
Soldiers from 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry [...]

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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — At first, Justin Lampert thought the popping sounds he heard were coming from an electronic game at the Las Vegas casino where he had been eating a hot dog. When a crowd of panicked people stampeded past, he realized it was something more serious.
It was then the Iraq war veteran saw [...]

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By Staff Sgt. Christine L. Andreu-Wilson, USA
Special to American Forces Press Service

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., July 9, 2007 – Though clouds were overhead at the Pepsi 400 NASCAR race July 7, nothing [...]

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FORWARD OPERATING BASE MURRAY, Iraq — A group of about 20 soldiers moves quietly under a starry sky toward a house about 500 meters from this small outpost less than 10 miles southeast of Baghdad.
As they file up the road, an imam begins a solemn song over a loudspeaker somewhere nearby, calling the faithful to [...]

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FORD CITY — Jane Conrad is well aware the division in the country regarding the Iraq war. But Conrad thinks there is another matter that transcends being for or against it.
"I am pro-troops and that’s all that matters," said Conrad, founder of Sponsor The Troops Inc., at the VFW post in Ford City on Saturday.
Conrad, [...]

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A few good men and women lined up Sunday at the Willow Grove Air Reserve Station in Horsham to say goodbye to their families before departing for Iraq.
About 140 members of the 111th Fighter Wing of the Pennsylvania National Guard were sent to help fight the war against terrorism.
The base allowed the families to come [...]

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let them battle it out - on Iranian territory of course 
July 9, 2007 — The leader of an umbrella group of Iraqi insurgents linked to Al-Qaeda has threatened to wage war against Iran unless it stops supporting Shi’a in Iraq.

The warning came in an audio recording posted on the Internet and attributed to Abu Umar [...]

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BAGHDAD, July 9 (UPI) — Police in Baghdad said Monday they located the bodies of 12 employees of a Pepsi-Cola bottling plant who were abducted a day earlier.
There was no information on the fate of another nine employees taken from the suburban bottling and distribution plant, CNN reported.
Elsewhere, at least 12 people were killed and [...]

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A SOLDIER killed in Basra, southern Iraq, on Saturday was named by the Ministry of Defence today as Corporal Christopher Read, of 158 Provost Company, 3rd Regiment Royal Military Police.
 
And MoD statement said: "Corporal Read, aged 22 and originally from Poole in Dorset, was injured by small arms fire whilst he was returning from a [...]

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