The majority of Hawai’i’s Stryker brigade soldiers are in place at Camp Taji in Iraq, with an official mission turnover from the 1st Ironhorse Brigade Combat Team out of Fort Hood, Texas, scheduled for Jan. 15.Approximately 4,000 soldiers and 328 of the eight-wheeled Stryker vehicles are part of the unit that will have duty for [...]

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CAMP TAJI, Iraq (Army News Service, Jan. 2, 2008) - When the “Ironhorse” Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division first arrived in Iraq nearly 15 months ago, the security situation was quite different from the one they now experience as they patrol the streets throughout their area of operations.
The brigade has seen a “phenomenal change” [...]

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Suspicious Iraqi troops ordered a “bride” and “groom” out of their car at a checkpoint on a highway north of Baghdad only to find they were wanted terrorists in disguise, the Defence Ministry said yesterday. Two other men travelling with the all-male “bridal couple” were also arrested. “Iraqi soldiers set up a checkpoint near Taji [...]

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By Sgt.  1st Class Rick Emert
1st ACB, 1st Cav.  Div.  Public Affairs CAMP TAJI, Iraq - Set up in five trucks with heavy machine guns, enemy forces sat in wait for a helicopter to fly over their location west of Baghdad on the last day of May.
It appeared their plan was to strike a blow [...]

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TAJI - “There will be no walking on my site,” said Sgt. 1st Class Tyroid Weston, a truck driver in the 202nd Brigade Support Battalion, to the new platoon of Iraqi Army (IA) Soldiers recently at CampTaji. “You are Strykers, you are swift and lethal; do you understand?”Weston and his team of four other non-commissioned [...]

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Every day we hear Republicans and Democrats give their perspectives on the war in Iraq, and as a soldier that gives me great pride that a lively and open debate is allowed in our country - but what Americans rarely hear, or are willing to listen to are stories that don’t fit their side of [...]

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Have our troops opened the doors to political reconciliation and gone beyond simply creating a secure environment in which the political solution in Iraq can be attained? Are they on the path toward attaining what professional diplomats could not?The Marines have found a way to bring tribal Sheiks together, provide local security, and run Al [...]

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BAGHDAD, Aug 23 (KUNA) — Four Iraqi soldiers were killed and 15 soldiers, Iraqi and American, were wounded when a coalition outpost in northern Baghdad was attacked by two suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices last night, said the Multi-National Force (MNF) on Thursday.
The statement said the post was manned by US soldiers from the First [...]

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BAGHDAD: A suicide truck bomber struck an important bridge north of Baghdad on Tuesday, sending cars plunging into the water below and killing at least 10 people, police said.
The attack occurred before noon on the Thiraa Dijla bridge near Taji, a town near a U.S. air base some 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of the [...]

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The U.S. military in Iraq says coalition forces have detained nine suspected al-Qaida in Iraq terrorists during operations in central and northern regions of the country.
A military statement said the suspects were detained Tuesday and Monday in raids in Baghdad, areas west of the capital, the northern city of Mosul and in an area southwest [...]

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