Ramadi had become a safe haven for anti-Iraqi forces, until October of last year.   The enemy hijacked a primary school and a mosque, using them as their operations centers to conduct daily attacks on Coalition and Iraqi Soldiers. Attacks from the area included everything from improvised explosive devices, to small-arms ambushes and indirect-fire attacks with mortars and rockets.   The citizens of this area felt forsaken. That is until an Iraqi Army battalion decided to take ba...

  Here are some interesting numbers for you:   Captured FOREIGN Nationals in Iraq : Oct 05 – 41 Nov 05 – 44 Dec 05 – 25 Jan 06 – 24 Feb 06 – 28 Mar 06 – 20   Bomb Makers Killed/ Captured Oct 05 – 23 Nov 05 – 15 Dec 05 – 8 Jan 06 – 3 Feb 06 – 15 Mar 06 – 8   Weapons Caches Found Oct 05 – 204 Nov 05 – 377 Dec 05 – 414 Jan 06 – 367 Feb 06 – 251 Mar 06 – 302   Tips to MNF-I (Multi-National...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 21, 2006 BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan   An Afghan man reported an improvised explosive device placed inside a mosque today preventing the possible deaths of several mosque patrons in the city of Bakh Tana in Khost Province .   The Afghan disclosed the location of the IED to Afghan National Police officers who in turn notified Coalition forces.   With permission from local religious leaders, a Coalit...

If you would like to see a well done, moving tribute to a fallen Marine from Iraq. Check out the link below to the PowerPoint self playing slide show, make sure your speakers are on. http://cisit.sfcc.edu/ips/CEW/indianwarrior.pps God Bless all our troops...  

VIDEO SCRIPT OF HOSTAGE RESCUE - Here are Coalition Forces in action. In this video, you will witness the reconnaissance of some terrorists who were affiliated with hostage taking. - We received information as to their whereabouts and checked out what they were doing. Turns out they were in the process of taking some more hostages, so we deployed our troops within minutes, tracked down and killed two of the terrorists and rescued the hostages, unscathed from the trunk. - This was an in...

RAMADI, Iraq - U.S. troops repelled an attack Monday by Sunni Arab insurgents who used suicide car bombs, rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons in a coordinated assault against this city's main government building and two U.S. observation posts. The fighting in Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, provided fresh evidence that the insurgency is thriving in Sunni Arab-dominated areas despite last month's decline in U.S. deaths. In Baghdad, U.S. and Iraqi forces fought an hou...

Collectively, the New York Times’ articles on the rallies in support of illegal immigrants would make for neat souvenir programs for marchers to take home. As examples of balanced journalism, however, they are feeble indeed. Nina Bernstein covered Monday’s march in New York City by illegal immigrants and their supporters, and managed to avoid the term “illegal” until her 12th paragraph. “The hotel housekeeper from El Salvador had taken a precious day off from cleaning up after tourists. The S...

BAGHDAD, Iraq – In search of locations for bomb making and storage, Coalition forces killed eight terrorists during a raid April 9 approximately 22 kilometers northwest of Baghdad in the vicinity of Hamaniyah. As the Coalition forces ordered occupants to exit an identified safehouse and nearby tent, two suspects ran from the tent. At least one suspect was armed, and both moved to take fire positions. The Coalition forces engaged the two and then received automatic and small arms fire from the no...

Soldiers disrupt terrorist activities JABELLA — Iraqi Army and Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers discovered a weapons cache, killed one terrorist and captured two others March 21 in Jabella. Iraqi soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 8th Iraqi Army Division, worked with Coalition Soldiers during the operation. Soldiers found a cache containing six 120 mm rounds, one mortar tube, one base plate and two 82 mm mortar tubes. ...

There is a War Protest with a cemetery display at a college in St Louis. They have tomb stones with the names of those that were killed in the war. I am sending this out so that any family who has a loved in who was killed in Iraq if you want to call or write the Dean of Students and let them know how upsetting this is to you please do so Need to know how disgusting this display is? Here is a picture of the referenced display (from a previous event), organized by the ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Iraqi Special Operations Forces conducted a twilight raid in the Adhamiyah neighborhood in northeast Baghdad to disrupt a terrorist cell responsible for conducting attacks on Iraqi security and Coalition Forces and kidnapping Iraqi civilians in the local area.    As elements of the 1st Iraqi Special Operations Forces Brigade entered their objective, they came under fire.  In the ensuing exchange of fire, Iraqi Special Operations Forces killed 16 insurgents.&nb...

RAMADI, Iraq – “We are the Soldiers of the 1st Brigade 1st Division Iraqi Army. Our mission is to save the innocent citizens of Ramadi from the black hands of the insurgents that are shedding their blood,” said the 1-1 Brigade Commander. ”We promise the innocent Iraqi citizens that we will be the sons who will be responsible to protect the families that live in the Al Anbar Province.” The 1-1 Iraqi Army Brigade has arrived in eastern Ramadi, and has been moving into the East Ramadi Iraqi Cam...

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Coalition Forces, while conducting operations near Tarmiya, rescued two Iraqi men kidnapped during a “carjacking” March 25. Coalition Forces witnessed a car stop a semi-truck along the highway. Four men got out of the car and pulled two men from the truck cab and threw them into the trunk of the car. Two of the men drove off in the truck; the other two got back in the car and drove off with the hostages in the trunk. Coalition Forces interdicted the car and rescued the two ...

THE revelation that a mole inside US Central Command was sending to the Russians secret operational material about the coalition plan to invade Iraq in March 2003 is the most extraordinary development to emerge since Saddam Hussein was found in a hole in the ground. However, the mole’s betrayal might have provided little assistance to the Iraqi dictator. It is conceivable that the material was either deliberately skewed to confuse the Baghdad regime or was out of date by the time that Saddam an...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russia's ambassador in Baghdad gave intelligence on U.S. military movements to Iraq's government in the opening days of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, a Pentagon report stated on Friday, quoting from captured Iraqi documents. The unclassified 210-page report by the U.S. military's Joint Forces Command cited an April 2, 2003, document from the Iraqi minister of foreign affairs to President Saddam Hussein as stating the Russian ambassador to Baghdad had funneled strategic inte...