tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-337403182011-08-16T20:12:10.524-07:00Letting the Facts, Events and People Speak for Themselvesiraqnamnoreply@blogger.comBlogger74531100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33740318.post-13580386639988055852007-10-14T13:24:00.000-07:002007-10-14T13:28:42.093-07:00

Spread the Word: Iraq-Nam has suspended publication. The 7,501 posts that cover the period from September 1, 2006 through October 13, 2007 will remain online as a research resource for anyone who cares to make use of it. The 'Search Blog' feature at the top right hand corner (in the blue bar) will bring up a page with the relevant posts. But the more specific the search term, the better the

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October 13, 2003: Escorted by Blackwater 'security guards', Paul Bremer -- head of the Coalition Provisional Authority -- walks down the steps of the Al Hamar hotel after a night-time meeting in Baghdad.October 13, 2002:Pentagon has plans to vaccinate soldiers against smallpoxIn moves suggesting new Pentagon preparations for war against Iraq, key Army and Marine Corps battle staffs are being sent

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Above: Shiite women attend an Eid al-Fitr prayer service marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan in Baghdad today.BAGHDAD - Four bodies were found in different districts of Baghdad in the past 24 hours, police said.MAHAWEEL - One body was found in the town of Mahaweel, 75 km (45 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.KUT - Gunmen attacked the house of a policeman, killing him and wounding his

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October 12, 2003: A U.S. Army soldier secures the scene after a car-bomb explosion near the Baghdad Hotel, thought to house an office of the CIA.October 12, 2002:Bush's evidence of threat disputedWith a resounding congressional endorsement behind him, President Bush confronts Iraq bolstered by the near-universal consensus that Saddam Hussein poses a security menace to his neighbors and the United

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Above: A child cries during a funeral today for a family member killed in a car-bombing Thursday. Four people died in the attack.BAGHDAD - Four bodies were found in different districts of Baghdad in the past 24 hours, police said.MAHAWEEL - One body was found in the town of Mahaweel, 75 km (45 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.KUT - Gunmen attacked the house of a policeman, killing him and

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Above and Left: Family members grieve over victims of the U.S. air strikes.U.S. air strikes kill 19 insurgents, 15 civiliansU.S. forces killed 19 insurgents and 15 women and children in air strikes north of Iraq's capital targeting suspected leaders of al Qaeda in Iraq, the U.S. military said on Thursday..."These terrorists chose to deliberately place innocent Iraqi women and children in danger

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October 11, 2005: As dawn breaks, soldiers from Task Force Baghdad prepare for combat operations in east Baghdad.October 11, 2002:White House developing plan for postwar occupation of IraqThe Bush administration is working on postwar plans for Iraq that could include using American and other foreign troops as a stabilizing force until a new government is formed, the Pentagon said Friday."Clearly,

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Above: Detainees held at the fifth Iraqi army division base in Baqubah are lined up for transfer to an Iraqi prison today.LAKE THAR THAR - U.S. forces killed 19 insurgents and 15 women and children near Lake Thar Thar, about 120 km (75 miles) north of the capital, in air strikes targeting suspected senior members of al Qaeda in Iraq, the U.S. military said. Two suspects, a woman and three

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Above: Marines from Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment quickly man the perimeter during an indirect fire attack against Camp Blessing last year. Blessing was the most remote manned Marine Corp post in Afghanistan and constantly recieved enemy fire.Marines Press to Remove Their Forces From IraqThe Marine Corps is pressing to remove its forces from Iraq and to send marines instead to

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Above: The Al-Faw Palace, which serves as the headquarters for the Multinational Corps-Iraq, is located on Camp Victory. Below: Sandbagged tent area at Camp Victory. Camp Victory is the primary component of the Victory Base Complex (VBC) that occupies the area surrounding the Baghdad International Airport.Iraq: Attacks Kills 2 SoldiersTwo members of the U.S.-led coalition force were killed and 40

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October 10, 2006: Iraqi security forces undergo Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) training at Forward Operating Base McHenry near Hawijah.October 10, 2002:House gives Bush authority for war with IraqPresident Bush praised the House of Representatives for voting to give him authority to go to war to disarm Iraq Thursday, calling it "a debate and a result that all Americans can be proud of."The

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Above: The father of Hussein Hameed mourns next to his dead son in Baqubah today. Hammed, a 27 year-old barber, was shot by unknown gunmen in his shop. Though the reason is unknown, barbers in Iraq have been threatened by religious extremists for providing 'western-style' hair cuts.TIKRIT - Six people were killed and 10 wounded when a car bomb exploded near the convoy of Colonel Jassim Hussein

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Above: The daughters of Marou Awanis, one of two women killed Tuesday during a funeral service in the Armenian Orthodox Virgin Mary Church in Baghdad today.U.S. and Iraqi officials Wednesday were investigating yet another shooting of Iraqi civilians by a heavily armed security firm linked to U.S. government-financed work in Iraq...Iraqi authorities blamed the women's deaths on guards working for

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Above: A guard stands watch at Compound 17’s Alpha Quad tower at Camp Bucca, the main U.S. internment facility, in May. Left: A man is detained for suspicion of weapons trafficking yesterday in Baghdad. Detainees may be held upon suspicion, without charges and with no determined date of release.Maj. Gen. Douglas M. Stone, deputy officer in charge of detainee operations, said the U.S. military now

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October 9, 2006: A policeman grimaces while being sent to a hospital. Three police recruits died and more than 1,200 recruits fell ill after eating meals at a military training base. The outbreak was later officially attributed to food poisoning.October 9, 2002:Bush vs. the CIAIn a speech intended to frighten the American people into supporting a war, the president Monday again trotted out his

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Above: An Iraqi army Humvee drags a donkey killed after a car bomb exploded in central Baghdad today. Three parked car bombs killed at least 15 people and wounded 45 others.BAIJI - Two suicide car bombers killed at least 22 people and wounded 30 in attacks on a mosque and the police chief in the oil refinery city of Baiji, 180 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. The powerful blasts

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Above: The blood-splattered car following the shooting. Left: Image from the Unity Resources Group website, where the Dubai-based company says it offers 'executive protection' including personnel security, site security, site clearance, canine services and people tracking.Security guards kill two women in Baghdad-govtPrivate security guards escorting a convoy of four vehicles through central

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Above: Turkish military trucks transport tanks near the border with Iraq today.Turkey threatens Iraq border raidTurkey's prime minister has given the go-ahead for a possible cross-border military operation in northern Iraq to hunt Kurdish separatists.Fifteen Turkish soldiers have been killed in rebel attacks since Sunday...On Tuesday, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan chaired a meeting

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The family of a Madison woman killed last week while serving in the U.S. Army in Iraq said on Monday that she was helping injured soldiers when she died.The family of U.S. Army Spc. Rachael Hugo, 24, spoke with the media on Monday at the U.S. Army Reserve Center located at 1402 S. Park St., and recalled their loved one who worked as a medic. Her parents said that she had won an award for saving

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Army Spc. Avealalo Milo, 23, of Hayward was killed by small-arms fire in Iraq, the Department of Defense has announced.Milo died Thursday in Baghdad when insurgents attacked his unit. He was assigned to the 2nd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division out of Vilseck, Germany. He was born in American Samoa and lived there, and in nearby

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An 82nd Airborne Division paratrooper died of wounds sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated while his unit was on patrol near Bayji, Iraq, on Thursday, the Army said in a news release.Sgt. Ricardo Rodriguez of Arecibo, Puerto Rico, was a gunner with 2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team.“He was a leader and a teacher to his soldiers, and his

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U.S. Army Sgt. Robert T. Ayres III, 23, who grew up in Los Osos, was killed Sept. 29 while serving in Iraq. He died from wounds suffered during an attack on his unit in Baghdad.His mother, Michelle Ayres, a 19-year resident of Los Osos, said her son enlisted in the Army after graduating from high school in Southern California in 2003.“He was a happy, funny and just a really sweet boy,” Ayres said

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The streets of Harrison were lined with flags and people, as residents of this small town turned out to honor Cpl. Todd Motley. Motley, 23, died Sept. 14 in Muqdadiyah, Iraq, when a bomb exploded near his vehicle. He was assigned to the 6th Squadron, 9th U.S. Cavalry, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood in Texas. Motley grew up in Harrison and lived in Clare before being

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Two of the soldiers who served with Army Staff Sgt. Zachary Tomczak in Iraq said their Huron comrade took care of the men under his command first before thinking about himself.That was the comment made by Sgt. Eric Smallwood of Justin, Texas, who served nearly five years with Tomczak, and Spc. Jeremy Bohanna of Sacramento, Calif., who knew him two years.The two talked about their fallen comrade

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After surviving some of the roughest streets the District has to offer, Randy L. Johnson Jr. chose the military as his route to a better life. For more than a dozen years, the strategy worked.Growing up amid neighborhood warfare in Southeast and Northeast Washington, Johnson was never pulled astray by the street life. And although his relatives said that as a teenager he preferred watching karate

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U.S. Army Cpl. Graham McMahon had a way of making things better for people.As a combat medic in Iraq, he patched up the wounded soldiers in his unit until they could be transported to a base hospital. McMahon’s sudden death in Iraq last month from a mysterious illness stunned his friends and family, including his wife of less than a year.“Families every day get that news. It’s really devastating,

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Herman J. Murkerson Jr., 35, a Marine Corps gunnery sergeant from the Adger community in western Jefferson County, died Monday in combat in Al Anbar province, Iraq, the Marine Corps announced Tuesday. The career Marine followed a path well-worn by generations of those in uniform. He married his high school sweetheart, joined the Corps right after graduation, and found direction in military

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A Ralls soldier died doing exactly what he wanted to do.Sgt. Randell "Randy" Olguin, 24, died from wounds suffered in an attack on his unit in Baghdad, according to a statement from the Department of Defense. His father, Sid Olguin, said the Army told him his son's unit was patrolling the city when his squad came under fire. Randy was the only soldier killed in the attack, Sid said.Randy's high

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October 8, 2004: Farmers line up to receive seed and fertilizer from U.S. troops, each given one bag each of wheat, barley and fertilizer for every two acres of land they own.October 8, 2002:U.S. hesitant to plan post-Saddam IraqThe Bush administration is resisting calls by Iraqi exiles and their U.S. supporters to form a provisional government that could fill the power vacuum in Baghdad if U.S.

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Above: A man grieves over a coffin after a U.S. raid supported by helicopters killed at least 2 civilians today in Baghdad.NEAR SAMARRA - A suicide car bomber killed 10 civilians and wounded eight people, including three policemen, in an attack on a police station near the city of Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.ANBAR PROVINCE - A U.S. Marine died in combat operations in

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Iraqi authorities want the U.S. government to sever all contracts in Iraq with Blackwater USA within six months and pay $8 million (€5.7 million) in compensation to each of the families of 17 people killed when the firm's guards sprayed a traffic circle with heavy machine gun fire last month.The demands — part of an Iraqi government report examined by The Associated Press — also called on U.S.

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Above: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown autographs a tank during his visit to Iraq last week.LONDON (AP) - Britain will withdraw nearly half its troops in Iraq beginning next spring, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday, leaving a contingent of 2,500 soldiers in the highly unpopular war.Brown told lawmakers the move is possible because of improving security following the U.S. increase in

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Above: The new embassy seen in the distance from a helicopter. Located across 21 buildings on 104 acres on the banks of the Tigris in Baghdad, the new U.S. Embassy will have its own water wells, electricity and wastewaster-treatment. There will be huge residences for the Ambassador (16,000 sf) and the Ambassador's deputy (9,500 sf), six apartments for senior officials, and two huge office blocks

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Above: Iranians cross into Iraq at an Iranian border control point in September.Iran on Monday reopened five border crossing points with Kurdish-run northern Iraq, closed last month by Tehran to protest the U.S. detention of an Iranian official as the Americans step up allegations that the Iranians are fueling the violence in Iraq...The Iranian border points were closed to protest the U.S.

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Above: Army Major General Steven Hashem of the U.S. Special Operations Command swears in inductees at a stadium in Florida in June.African-Americans, whose longstanding relationship with the US military helped them prove their abilities and offered a way to get ahead, have turned away from the armed forces in record numbers since 2000, a period covering the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and

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Above: Aircraft from the Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force including a B-52 bomber conduct a fly by of the John C. Stennis, Kitty Hawk and Nimitz Carrier Strike Groups during 'Operation Valiant Shield' war games in August. Conducted off the coast of Guam, the massive exercises were reported to include training for an attack on Iran.Gordon Brown has agreed to support US air strikes against Iran if

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Above: In the interview Wurmser suggests a situation such as Israel's attack on Hezbollah could serve as a pretext for attacking Syria (outrage over the death of 22 children in an Israeli air strike in Lebanon last July caused an end to hostilities). Newsweek also confirmed this month that David Wurmser had told associates of a Cheney plan to ask Israel to launch a missile strike on Iran, hoping

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October 7, 2003: U.S. soldiers arrest an Iraqi demonstrating in central Baghdad. 2,000 former employees of the Iraqi intelligence service demanded back pay and jobs. The protesters threw stones and tried to break through a barbed wire barrier.October 7, 2002:The lessons of EmpireThe photograph below of a fierce-looking group of men cradling antique machine guns comes from an old album in my home.

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Above: Iraqi soldiers patrol in a tak near Firdos square in downtown Baghdad today.MOSUL - U.S. forces killed a man driving an ambulance rigged with a suicide bomb towards them in the city of Mosul 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.MAHMUDIYA - U.S. forces detained 17 suspected insurgents during combat operations in Mahmudiya, 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, the U.S.

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Above: A soldier from the 1st Cavalry Division displays U.S. Army field manuals and training aides uncovered in a weapons cache his unit discovered near Baqubah in February. The weapons cache held enough raw material to build over 150 explosively formed pentetrators, which the U.S. says come from Iran.General David Petraeus, speaking at a U.S. military base about 30 km (20 miles) from the Iranian

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October 6, 2006: Iraqi police watch as a fellow officer approaches a vehicle containing two would-be car bombers who were killed after a brief firefight with in Baghdad.October 6, 2002:Attack May Spark Coup In Iraq, Say U.S. AnalystsSenior intelligence experts inside and outside government have reached a consensus that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein would likely be ousted in a coup led by members

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Above: An Iraqi prisoner talks with his son in the national police prison in Baghdad today. Prisoners are allowed to meet with family on the first Saturday of every month.BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed one U.S. soldier and wounded three during combat operations in southern Baghdad, U.S. military said.SAMARRA - Iraqi army, police and local groups working with U.S. forces known as "concerned

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.Above: The major players -- Nuri al-Maliki (Prime Minister, Shiite), Tariq al-Hashemi (one of two Vice Presidents, Sunni), Moqtada al-Sadr ('fiery' anti-American cleric, Shiite), Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim (head of the largest Shiite coalition), Jalal Talabani (President of Iraq, Kurd, Qadiri Sufi sect of Sunnism), and Massoud Barzani (President of Iraqi Kurdistan, Naqshbandi Sufi sect of Sunnisim).

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October 5, 2004: A soldier from the 1st Infantry Division kicks open a gate in during house-to-house searches in Samarra.October 5, 2002:Saddam foes divided in the wake of US offerA US strategy to train and equip an Iraqi opposition force that would join American military units in Iraq has bitterly divided the Iraqi opposition, underscoring fractures among opponents of Saddam Hussein that could

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Above: A man cries out as four victims of U.S air strikes near Khalis lie on a pick-up truck today.BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed two U.S. soldiers and wounded two during operations in the southeastern region of the capital, the U.S. military said.BAIJI - A roadside bomb killed one U.S. soldier and wounded three when it was detonated near their vehicle in Baiji, north of the capital, the U.S.

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Above: Children in a cancer ward in Iraq. Even before the invasion, the years of sanctions against Iraq prevented many basic drugs from entering the country.Hospitals specialising in cancer treatment have urged the Iraq authorities to replenish supplies because they say a shortage of essential medicines is putting the lives of thousands of patients at risk.“Patients are dying from cancer because

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Above: 'Security contractors' from Blackwater fighting alongside U.S. troops in 2004.Blackwater Faulted In Military Reports From Shooting SceneU.S. military reports from the scene of the Sept. 16 shooting incident involving the security firm Blackwater USA indicate that its guards opened fire without provocation and used excessive force against Iraqi civilians, according to a senior U.S. military

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Above: Protesting villagers from Khalis closed the main road between Baghdad and the northern city of Kirkuk in late September to demand stronger steps to restore security to the area. Villagers say U.S. troops fired on them, wounding 18, but the U.S. says only warning shots were fired.U.S. troops kill 25 north of BaghdadU.S. troops said they killed 25 members of a Shiite Muslim militia group

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Above: Located across 21 buildings on 104 acres on the banks of the Tigris in Baghdad, the new U.S. Embassy will have its own water wells, electricity and wastewaster-treatment. There will be huge residences for the Ambassador (16,000 sf) and the Ambassador's deputy (9,500 sf), six apartments for senior officials, and two huge office blocks for 8,000 staff. Recreation includes the biggest

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Above: U.S. Marine Corps instructor at the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicle (MRAP) course at in Al Asad in July. Instructees drive through different road courses to obtain their MRAP license. The vehicles have V-shaped hulls that deflect blasts from underneath. The Defense Department originally announced it would send 3,500 MRAPs to Iraq this year, but later announced only 1,500 could be

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Above: Paratroopers from the 25th Infantry Division patrol past a mosque in Musayyib last November.The U.S. military said Friday it was investigating the deaths of three civilians who were shot by American troops near a checkpoint set up by Iraqis who have joined forces against extremists.The civilians were killed early Thursday in Abu Lukah, a village just north of Musayyib, about 60 kilometers

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Above: Detainees pledge not to commit crimes and to assist the government during a release ceremony in September.US forces in Iraq have released a total of 707 detainees in the first three weeks of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, the military said Thursday. "The detainees were no longer determined a security threat and were released," a statement said. On September 13, when Ramadan

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October 4, 2004: Children collect usable metal from the site of a car bomb explosion which killed killed 6 and injured 15 in Baghdad.October 4, 2002:U.S. Intelligence: Iraq has chemical, biological weaponsIraq has biological and chemical weapons and some illegal long-range missiles, but probably no nuclear weapons, a new report from U.S. intelligence agencies concludes.The unclassified report,

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Above: Iraqi officers secure the area after a car bombing in Baghdad killed at least 2 and wounded 11.TAL AFAR - A suicide car bomber killed three people and wounded 57 in a market in Tal Afar, 420 km (260 miles) northwest of Baghdad, police said. Thirteen of the wounded were in a severe condition, they said.BAGHDAD - Eight bodies were discovered across Baghdad in the last 24 hours, police

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Above: A guard checks an oil tanker's identification card before letting it exit the the Baiji Oil Refinery, one of the three largest in Iraq and producing more than 75% of Iraq’s refined products. The facility employs more than 5,000 people, including security guards hired by the Oil Protection Force, which are all employed by Iraq’s Ministry of Oil. Because of problems with guards bribing and

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Above: Iraqi police recruits prepare to qualify with their AK-47 rifles at the Police Training Academy, Camp India in September.Iraqis to Pay China $100 Million for Weapons for PoliceIraq has ordered $100 million worth of light military equipment from China for its police force, contending that the United States was unable to provide the materiel and is too slow to deliver arms shipments, Iraqi

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FBI takes lead in Blackwater investigationThe FBI has taken control from the State Department of an investigation into the Sept. 16 shooting incident involving security contractor Blackwater in which 11 Iraqis were killed, the department said on Thursday.The State Department this week invited the FBI to join a diplomatic security team looking into the shooting incident, which enraged Iraqis and

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Top: Soldiers of the 2nd Combined Arms Battalion, 136th Infantry Regiment of the Minnesota National Guard at a December memorial for (Below) fallen Army Sgts. Nicholas D. Turcotte, Corey J. Rystad, and Bryan T. McDonough. From six months of training at Camp Shelby in Mississippi to an extended 16-month tour in Iraq, they’d been away from home since October 2005, returning late this summer.Iraq

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Left: Front gate of a mosque in Erbil (also called Arbil), capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region. Iraq's Kurds are primarily Sunni.The Arabic names of mosques in the Kurdish autonomous region will be renamed after Kurdish religious figures, a Kurdish government official said Wednesday.The Kurdish Ministry of Endowments and Islamic Affairs decided to change the Arabic names of mosques into

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Above: Boys drink water from a faucet in Yusufiyah in August. Cholera is a severe diarrheal disease caused by bacteria ingested in contaminated water or food. In its most severe forms, cholera is one of the most rapidly fatal illnesses known: A healthy person may become hypotensive within an hour of the onset of symptoms and may die within 2-3 hours if no treatment is provided. Death is by

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Lovelia Dixon spoke to her husband Donnie on Friday via video conference call, putting the wife face-to-face with the soldier stationed in Iraq.The next morning, she woke up to a knock at the door and two grim, uniformed Army men on the other side. Staff Sgt. Donnie Dixon, 37, died Sept. 29 in Baloor, Iraq, when insurgents attacked his unit with "small arms fire," military officials said Monday.

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The South Plains has lost its fourth soldier this year to the War on Terror.Sergeant Randell Olguin died Sunday in Baghdad, after insurgents attacked his unit. The 24-year-old was assigned to the 1st Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment out of Germany, but he grew up in Ralls, and is a graduate of Ralls High School.Everyone we spoke with Tuesday told NewsChannel 11 that Sergeant Olguin always

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Two local parents are preparing to say goodbye to their oldest son, and the community of Adger is bracing to bury a hero. 35-year-old Gunnery Sergeant Herman Jerome Murkerson, Jr. died October 1st after being shot while fighting in Iraq’s Al Anbar province. Murkerson had wanted to be a US Marine since he was a teenager. “Little Jerome" as his family calls him joined the Marine Corps.

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A U.S. Army soldier from White Hall, Sgt. First Class James Doster, 38, was killed Saturday in a roadside bombing and gunfight in southern Baghdad. He was a convoy commander.The family was eagerly awaiting an October visit home from the soldier, said his mother, Billie Doster of White Hall.Doster, a White Hall High School graduate, is also survived by his wife, Amanda, and two young daughters,

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A career soldier from Harrah, who had less than a year before his retirement from the Army, was killed Tuesday in Iraq. The Department of Defense said Staff Sgt. Kevin Ray Brown, 38, was killed when his Army vehicle struck a roadside bomb at Muqdadiyah in central Iraq. He was assigned to the 6th Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, based out of Fort Hood,

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A Queens soldier who was days away from returning home on a long-awaited two-week furlough was killed in Iraq late last month, military officials and the soldier's family said yesterday.Army Spec. Chirasak Vidhyarkorn, 32, was six days shy of coming back to Bayside, Queens, to celebrate a cousin's 21st birthday when he died of injuries sustained in a noncombat-related incident Saturday in

iraqnamnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33740318.post-49854352422839489182007-10-03T21:31:00.001-07:002007-10-08T18:51:27.534-07:00

A D.C. soldier was killed in Iraq, according to the Department of Defense.The Department of Defense announced Monday, 34-year-old Sgt. 1st Class Randy L. Johnson, died September 27 in Baghdad, after being wounded when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle. Johnson was assigned to the 2nd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment out of Vilseck, Germany. From WJLA-- To Randy's

iraqnamnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33740318.post-44231822791526837672007-10-03T18:51:00.000-07:002007-10-03T18:53:17.841-07:00

Alexander Gagalac was the soft-spoken one, his twin brother, Alexis, the more outgoing.The two were inseparable when they went to Leilehua High School, but would have arguments over the smallest things that used to crack up their friends.Billy Bumanglag, a close friend of Alexander's, remembers that he was shy at first."But after a going out with us, he opened up, and he was a lot more outgoing,"

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On Sept. 1, Stan Hardegree posted a story on the Villa Rica Voice, a local news Web site he runs for the Georgia community, located a half-hour west of Atlanta. It was a travelogue about a trip he took to Washington to pick up a new BMW 5 Series, a welcome-home gift for his son, Michael, who was due back from Iraq soon. Michael's godfather, Bob Kruger, had purchased the car, and so father and

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Army Sgt. John Mele served in the military like his grandfather and namesake. Although separated by half a century on the battlefield, they nonetheless remained connected in life through family, name and service to their country. Now, they will remain tied together in memory, buried nine gravesites apart at Arlington National Cemetery. Mele, 25, of Bunnell, Fla., died Sept. 14 in Arab Jabour,

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Hundreds of people gathered at the Church of the Nazarene on Tuesday to pay their respects to Army Cpl. Matt Emerson, who was killed in Iraq. Friends and family packed the sanctuary while still others filled a nearby room and the foyer. More than 50 bikes from the Patriot Guard Riders -- a national veterans group of motorcyclists -- showed up in Emerson's honor. Emerson, a 20-year-old gunner of a

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Chris Landry had every reason to look glum. Every reason to cry.But there he stood, head up, greeting well-wishers, even managing a few smiles.Maybe it was the jacket he was wearing ? an Army jacket his big brother wore in boot camp.Now, he wears it in his brother's honor. Even wore it on a steamy Thursday night during the wake for his brother, Army Cpl. Joseph N. Landry III.Heaven knows that

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Anna Valentine had to gaze upon her fallen son's face before she could give up hope that somehow the Army had made a mistake."It was him," the Jacksonville, Fla., woman said of her son, Cpl. Donald E. Valentine III, who was returned to his birthplace Tuesday in a flag-draped coffin. "He looks beautiful as ever."Although he spent only the first five years of his life in Houston, Valentine, who

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A Lima Ohio teenager, who knew as a young boy that he wanted to be a soldier, was laid to rest Friday, after dieing for his country in Iraq.Funeral services were held for 19-year old Army Specialist Christian Neff, who died September 19th when a roadside bomb detonated near his patrol in Baghdad.Neff was a tank driver and gunner.Family members say as a hobby Neff spent hours playing strategy and

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Another San Diego family is trying to deal with tragic news from Iraq.They learned this week that their son, brother and husband, a paratrooper, was shot and killed Monday. Cpl. Anthony K. Bento, 23, was on foot patrol when his unit was attacked by insurgents, according to military officials."Luckily I was home with my mom when they came to the door," said Nickie Bento, Anthony's sister. "It was

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October 3, 2006: Iraqi police from Diyala take part in SWAT training at Forward Operating Base McHenry.October 3, 2002:Make draft not warWith a possible war against Iraq looming, it may not be long before the United States begins amassing thousands of troops at the Saudi border again. What a melancholy contrast then, to see so many privileged students wandering about last week, joining a riot

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Above: A woman weeps for her two brothers her niece killed by unknown gunmen in their home today in Baqubah.BAGHDAD - Poland's ambassador to Iraq was wounded in a bomb attack on his diplomatic convoy in Baghdad, which killed a bodyguard and a passerby, officials said.BAQUBA - Three people were killed, including a girl student, during clashes between police and gunmen in Baquba, 65 km (40 miles)

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Above: Sunni 'Provincial Volunteers', including 'former insurgents' carry out their duties in Radwaniyah in September.The largest Shiite political coalition in Iraq demanded Tuesday that the U.S. military abandon its recruitment of Sunni tribesmen into the Iraqi police, saying some are members of "armed terrorist groups" and are engaged in killing, kidnapping and extortion under the guise of

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Above: A soldier with the 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment pulls security as an explosive ordnance disposal team detonates a roadside bomb in Baghdad in September.The No. 2 American commander in Iraq said Tuesday that Iraqi security forces would need most of next year before they were capable of providing security for the entire capital, Baghdad.The commander, Lt. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, emphasized

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October 2, 2006: Soldiers with the 101st Airborne Division provide security during an engagement with insurgents in the Shaab neighborhood of northeast Baghdad.October 2, 2002:Iraq war resolution gains momentumDemocrats and Republicans in Congress began closing ranks Wednesday behind a resolution giving President Bush broad authority to use military force against Iraq. Bush hailed the development

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Above: Iraqis demonstrate after receiving eviction notices in Baghdad today. The families had been 'squatting' in abandoned homes.KHALIS - Suicide bomber killed a woman, a child, two other civilians and two policemen when he detonated his explosives outside a police station in the town of Khalis, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad. Police said 10 people were wounded.BAGHDAD - Nine bodies were

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Left: A Blackwater 'security contractor' in Iraq.Blackwater incident witness: 'It was hell'An Iraqi police officer who was directing traffic at Baghdad's Nusoor Square on September 16 said Blackwater guards "became the terrorists" that Sunday afternoon when they opened fire on civilians, an incident the Iraqi government said was unprovoked...The police officer, whom CNN is identifying only as

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Above: Storm clouds over the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. Left: Howard Krongard, the State Department's Inspector General, has been alleged to have blocked probes into contractor fraud in Iraq, including the construction of the new half-billion dollar embassy which was to open last month.State Dept. Agents Say Jobs Were ThreatenedTwo career investigators in the office of State Department Inspector

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Above: Prime Minister Brown meets with British soldiers in Basra today.Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said 1,000 more British troops could leave Iraq by the end of the year.Speaking after meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Baghdad today, Brown also said he believed the southern Al-Basrah Governorate could be handed over to full Iraqi control in the next two months."By the end of

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Left: Arab residents of Kirkuk demonstarte against forced repatriation ahead of the Kirkuk referendum, which could turn the oil-rich city into Kurdish control.Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani reiterated his call for holding a referendum on the future of oil-rich Kirkuk swiftly, following the Constitution, and warned if the referendum is delayed long beyond the end of the year, Iraq cannot

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Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government has announced four more controversial oil deals, despite Baghdad's condemnation, and says more are on the way...Companies involved in two of the production-sharing contracts have been announced: a subsidiary of the Canadian firm Heritage Oil and Gas and a subsidiary of the French firm Perenco S.A. The other two deals will be detailed soon, the statement

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Above: Microscopic image of the scabies mite. Left: A rash caused by scabies.Bad hygiene in several Iraqi prisons has caused prisoners to become infected with scabies, and no treatment is being given, according to a non-governmental organisation (NGO) dealing with prisoners.“At least four Iraqi prisons have been infected with scabies as a result of bad hygiene,” said Khalid Rabia’a, a spokesman

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Iraqi refugee children at the store which carries basic foodstuffs at al-Tanf camp in Syria. Almost one third of the camp’s residents are children under the age of 14.The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) is continuing to push for “humanitarian visas” for Iraqi refugees after Syria once again closed its borders to the continuing influx of refugees fleeing Iraq. UNHCR witnesses at the Syria-Iraqi Al-Tanf

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October 1, 2004: Soldiers from the 1st Infantry Division conduct house-to-house searches during Operation Baton Rouge in Samarra.October 1, 2002:White House Would Welcome Hussein AssassinationThe White House press secretary today said the Bush administration would welcome the assassination of Saddam Hussein by his countrymen, arguing that "one bullet" would be a cost-effective way of removing the

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Above: A boy is held in his mother's arms as they wait to receive food distributed by the al-Sadr office in Baghdad today.BAGHDAD - U.S. forces killed seven suspected insurgents and detained 11 others on Sunday and Monday during operations to disrupt al Qaeda's leadership in Baghdad, Mosul and Tarmiya, the U.S. military said.KIRKUK - Four bodies, including a policeman, were found in different

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Above: Volunteers in Najaf bury 56 unidentified bodies gathered from the Baghdad morgue last Friday.Deaths among American forces and Iraqi civilians fell dramatically last month to their lowest levels in more than a year, according to figures compiled by the U.S. military, the Iraqi government and The Associated Press.The decline signaled a U.S. success in bringing down violence in Baghdad and

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After enduring a rocket attack in Ramadi, Jon Town was told his PTSD was a pre-existing personality disorder, then discharged from the service and denied disability.Thousands of U.S. soldiers in Iraq — as many as 10 a day — are being discharged by the military for mental health reasons. But the Pentagon isn't blaming the war. It says the soldiers had "pre-existing" conditions that disqualify them

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Above: 'Security contractors' at a reconstruction site in Iraq. The contract extended for two years an agreement with Aegis to provide security at reconstruction sites.The US government quietly gave a $485 mln security contract for Iraq to a private British firm within the week that US contractors were accused of opening fire on and killing Iraqi civilians.The highly contested deal, the largest

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Above: Soldiers from the Republic of Georgia at at Forward Operating Base Union I last year.The U.S. military is launching an intensified effort to stop what it says is Iranian support for insurgents in Iraq.U.S. forces are building a forward-operations base in Iraq just a few kilometers from the border with Iran. The $5 million project is aimed at improving border security and is part of a

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Above: A C-5 at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan last Friday. The C-5 is the largest airlifter in the Air Force inventory and has the ability to carry 36 pallets of cargo over a nearly unlimited range through aerial refueling.The costs of the C-5 re-engining program have spiked to the point that the Air Force will have to inform Congress the program is more than 15 percent over budget, the Air

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Britsh MPs visiting the Pentagon to discuss America's stance on Iran and Iraq were shocked to be told by one of President Bush's senior women officials: "I hate all Iranians"... The all-party group of MPs say Debra Cagan, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Coalition Affairs to Defence Secretary Robert Gates, made the comments this month.It was her tone when they met her on September 11 that shocked

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September 30, 2005: A soldier with the 1st Infantry Regiment provides rear security during a medical assistance mission near Rawah.September 30, 2002:Report: U.S. supplied the kinds of germs Iraq later used for biological weaponsIraq's bioweapons program that President Bush wants to eradicate got its start with help from Uncle Sam two decades ago, according to government records getting new

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Above: An Iraqi police officer guards two men detained for trying to launch a Katusha rocket against Kirkuk airport today.MOSUL - Eleven handcuffed and blindfolded bodies, all with gunshot wounds and showing signs of torture, were found dumped in one place Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.BAGHDAD - Five bodies were found in different areas of Baghdad in the past 24 hours,

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Above: Aircraft from the Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force including a B-52 bomber conduct a fly by of the John C. Stennis, Kitty Hawk and Nimitz Carrier Strike Groups during 'Operation Valiant Shield' war games in August. Conducted off the coast of Guam, the massive exercises were reported to include training for an attack on Iran.This summer, the White House, pushed by the office of

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September 29, 2005: A soldier from the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team searches for possible hidden weapons during a patrol in Mosul.September 29, 2002:U.S. Forces Building Up Around IraqU.S. Marines rode massive green hovercraft last week onto the Kuwaiti shore. But instead of assaulting hostile Iraqi troops, they joined Kuwaiti allies for a three-week exercise in the desert.Fighter jets from

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