TIGARD - A 3,500-member Oregon Army National Guard unit has been put on alert for likely duty in the Middle East. If the unit goes to Iraq or Afghanistan, it would be the biggest deployment of the Oregon Guard since World War II. “This will be the big one,” Brig. Gen. Mike Caldwell said.
The soldiers [...]

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Just returned from the Iraq-Syria border back to Mosul after an interesting day.  The progress in Iraq could not be clearer.  I’ve never seen so much hope among the Iraqis or our soldiers.  U.S. officers and senior NCOs caution me to be careful about sounding too optimistic, but the fact is I have never seen [...]

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Larger NATO Force Needed in Afghanistan
NATO-led forces in Afghanistan do not have the means to secure the country in the face of a barrage of insurgent attacks, says a senior French general with the force. “That does not mean we are going to lose this operation, but it is going to take a lot longer [...]

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KABUL, Nov 30 (KUNA) — One police constable was killed and his colleague sustained injuries in a Taliban attack in northern Afghanistan, officials said on Friday.
Police chief of the country’s northern Baghlan province Abdul Rahman told journalists the policemen were killed and injured in a Taliban ambush in the province last night.
Baghlan is the same [...]

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BAGHDAD, Nov 30 (KUNA) — The Iraqi and U.S. security forces arrested Friday 43 bodyguards including son of Sunni politician Adnan al-Dulaimi, Makki, against the backdrop of finding two cars rigged with explosives near al-Dulaimi’s office in Al-Adel district here Thursday.
In a statement to KUNA Chairman of Iraqi Accord Front and MP Al-Dulaimi condemned the [...]

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LONDON, Nov 30 (KUNA) — Britain faces the serious threat of a “dirty bomb” terror attack, British Home Secretary Mrs Jacqui Smith warned Friday.
The news comes as police in Slovakia question three people caught trying to sell enriched uranium for possible use in a radiological device.
In an exclusive interview for the satellite TV station “Sky [...]

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BAGHDAD, Nov 30 (KUNA) — Iraqi and US forces have found two cars loaded with explosives in a complex that includes the office of Head of the Conciliation Front and member of Parliament Adnan Al-Dulaimi.
Spokesman for the Law Enforcement Plan in Iraq Brigadier Qassem Atta told KUNA on Friday the forces broke into the complex [...]

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BAGHDAD, Nov.  29 (Xinhua) — U.S.  troops have killed five suspected insurgents and detained 17 others during operations across Iraq, the U.S.
military said on Thursday.
Earlier in the day, U.S.  troops fought insurgents in the Khan Bani Saad area near Baquba, 65 km northeast of Baghdad, killing two of them and detaining five others, a U.S.  [...]

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BAGHDAD, Nov. 29 (UPI) — A spate of bombings and U.S.-led coalition counterinsurgency arrests were reported throughout Iraq on Thursday.
A raid targeting an unidentified Shiite extremist north of Baghdad resulted in the deaths of two armed militants and the arrests of five others, a U.S. military statement said.
Raids in Tarmiya, north of Samarra, Hawija, and [...]

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6,000 Sunni Iraqis Join Pact With U.S.
Nearly 6,000 Sunni Arab residents joined a security pact with American forces Nov. 28 in what U.S. officers described as a critical step in plugging the remaining escape routes — “the last gateway,” said one official — for extremists flushed from their former strongholds.
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