BAGHDAD, Aug 31 (KUNA) — A Marine and a soldier assigned to the Multi National Force died on August 29 in separate attacks while conducting combat operations in Al-Anbar Province, the MNF said in a statement on Friday.
The statement did not provide further details and location of the two incidents.
However, the statement added the names [...]

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BAGHDAD, Aug 31 (KUNA) — US troops observed and engaged an armed group of Al-Qaeda operatives, killing 12 and destroying two vehicles near the town of Karmah on August 29, the Multi-National Force (MNF) said in a statement Friday.
A group of three men was seen loading objects into a truck 11 km northeast of Fallujah, [...]

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ISLAMABAD, Aug 31 (KUNA) — Several hours have been passed but no clue has been found of 135 missing Pakistani soldiers in the country’s volatile South Waziristan tribal agency along war-ravaged Afghanistan, and a tribal Jirga was dispatched to negotiate their release.
About 135 soldiers in 16 trucks were traveling to Ludha subdivision from Wana, the [...]

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BAGHDAD, Aug 31 (KUNA) — An American soldier was killed and another was injured during combat operations in western Baghdad yesterday, said the Multi-National Force (MNF) on Friday.
Meanwhile, the MNF revealed that inspections in Baghdad resulted in the discovery of several weapon caches.
The caches, found in the capital, consist of numerous kinds of weapons, from [...]

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This Weeks Post Was Suggested By Randy Thorsvig
Ken Leonard (On The Right)
From High Point, North CarolinaEvery once in a while you run across one of those “feel good stories”. Those stories that show us just what a person can do when they really want it bad enough. And Ken Leonard has one of those stories.
In [...]

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The latest dispatch awaits:  please click here to read Ghosts of Anbar, Part III of IV

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 BAGHDAD - Though the radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr put his Mahdi Army on ice Wednesday, U.S. infantrymen patrolling the streets of eastern Baghdad, which are dominated by his followers, are maintaining a wary eye.Al-Sadr ordered a six-month suspension of his militia’s activities in order to reorganize the force. The Associated Press quoted al-Sadr aides [...]

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Stars and Stripes,
Mideast edition, Friday, August 31, 2007
ARLINGTON, Va. - The Army has ordered 1,000 kits for new windows that would allow troops to get out of Humvees quickly in an emergency, according to BAE Systems.
The Vehicle Emergency Escape windows have a handle that troops can turn to unlock and pop them out in [...]

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