American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, July 20, 2007 – Coalition and Iraqi forces killed or captured dozens of enemy fighters and terrorism suspects in operations over the last three days, military officials reported.
Three terrorists were killed and 44 suspected terrorists were detained during operations around Iraq today targeting terrorist leaders and their operational cells.
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Where are the Islamist/Jihadist Websites Hosted, and What Can Be Done About It?
Today, in a briefing on Capitol Hill hosted by Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-NY), chairman of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia and Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN), ranking member of the Subcommittee on the Middle East [...]

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I hope they have every single one on film now…
Baghdad, 20 July (AKI) - Militants linked to al-Qaeda are reported to have staged a military parade in the village of Miqdadiya, in Diyala province north of Baghdad, to demonstrate their viability in the face of a massive US offensive in the area.
Despite the presence of [...]

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American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, July 20, 2007 – Earlier this season, Budweiser and race-car driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. drew attention to a little-known charity with big aspirations.

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AMSTERDAM/BAGHDAD (BosNewsLife)– The Netherlands’ government will likely pressure Iraq to end the persecution of Christians after an influential Dutch parliamentarian revealed that Iraqi Christians have been crucified in the war-torn nation, apparently by Muslim militants, BosNewsLife learned Friday, July 20. …..more

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HISTORIANS IN the future will undoubtedly find many and varied lessons from the war in Iraq. But we now do not have the luxury of waiting for all the evidence to be in before we start to understand what has gone wrong and what has gone right in Iraq.
What has gone right is that the [...]

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In the middle of a shoot-out with a fortified insurgent in western Iraq, Marine Sgt. Jeff Hunter never could have known his actions would inspire fellow leathernecks and his commanders as much as it did. But two years after that May 2005 firefight Hunter, 28, received the Silver Star.
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Just when you thought the war in Iraq couldn’t get any stranger, a high-ranking al-Qaeda figure who was first captured and then killed - his body displayed on state-run TV - turns out to have been a fiction.
He didn’t exist.
The apparently invented character called Abu Omar al-Baghdadi was known as the head of the Islamic [...]

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Troops from Britain’s Prince Harry’s army regiment will be deployed to Afghanistan in October, the UK Defence Secretary of State Desmond Browne said Thursday.
Still, Browne did not say whether Prince Harry will will be among them.
Harry had hoped to be sent to Iraq with his tank unit, but military chiefs ruled in May that the [...]

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SOLDIERS from the Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment will be returning to Iraq in November and December, army chiefs have announced.
Defence Secretary Des Browne made announcement on the next troops to be sent to Iraq and Afghanistan in Westminster.
Among the units deploying to Iraq is the 1st Battalion The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment (King’s, Lancashire and [...]

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