Major IED manufacturing cache discovered... TIKRIT, Iraq – A large cache of IED components was discovered by Soldiers from Task Force Band of Brothers, Dec. 15 near Hawijah. A pair of scout helicopters from the 101st Airborne Division spotted several individuals behaving suspiciously and the pilots radioed the location to a nearby patrol from the Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team. The pilots’ instincts were confirmed when the patrol found a cache buried nearby in several 55 gallon d...
TIKRIT, Iraq – Local citizens played a major role in the discovery of two weapons caches near Kirkuk Dec. 17. A group of Iraqi citizens captured two suspected terrorists after observing the suspects digging up a cache. The men subdued the suspects and called the Kirkuk Joint Coordination Center, who relayed the information to a nearby patrol. The combined Iraqi and U.S. patrol responded and secured more than 20 artillery rounds and detained the suspects for questioning. Another gro...
Well I got a call yesterday. The local paper, the Gainesville Sun, www.sunone.com, is going to use one of my articles I sent them as a guest editorial! They needed a picture of me for the piece. LOL Well I will let you all know when I get notified what day it will be in. And to make it even better, the local RADIO talk station asked me to be a guest and talk about some of the things I have written in my blog. !! I am so excited I could .... well you know...
Dec. 14, 2005 – Iraqi Army troops and coalition forces captured 11 insurgents and seized six caches Dec. 13 in operations southeast of Baqubah, Iraq, military officials reported today. The caches included eight anti-tank mines, six 155 mm artillery rounds, 48 assorted rockets, 48 mixed mortars rounds, 16 anti-personnel rocket-propelled grenades, 26 RPG boosters and a mortar tube assembly. Explosive ordnance disposal personnel were called in to destroy the munitions. The suspects are ...
MNF-I Operations (Multi-National Forces - Iraq) Summary: Nov. 26 to Dec. 2 Combined operations: 248 IEDs found and cleared: 164 anti-Iraqi forces detained: 446 foreign fighters captured or killed: 31 Weapons caches found and cleared:97 Total number of weapons caches found from May through November, ready?? I know you won't hear this anywhere - 1,458! !!! Yep thats right, and you heard about what 5 or 6 of them?? LOL Sad Sad Sad. Now there ya go, sound like a few good numbe...
Spc. Rick RzepkaScimitar Assistant Editor (Notice it says assistant) As I was just about to help myself to one of the 15 desert selections offered in the International Zone dining facility the other night, I overheard two young officers exchanging in some rather interesting conversation. Honestly, it wasn’t as interesting as it was absurd to me.The first one was explaining to the other how he thinks “It sucks here,” because he only gets 30 channels and there’s never anything good on. The seco...
Dec. 9, 2005 – Enemies of a free Iraq recognize they can't win against the United States and the coalition on the battlefield, and the only way they can hope to win is in Washington, D.C., and through American public opinion, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Dec. 8. "They can't win over there," Rumsfeld said on PBS' "News Hour With Jim Lehrer." "The only place they can win it is in Washington, D.C., and they know that. They are working on it, and they are working it skillfully." R...
Dec. 9, 2005 – The terrorist known as "the Butcher of Ramadi" was detained today, turned in by local citizens in the provincial capital of Iraq's Anbar province, U. S. military officials in Iraq reported. Amir Khalaf Fanus -- listed third on a "high-value individuals" list of terrorists wanted by the 28th Infantry Division's 2nd Brigade Combat Team -- was wanted for criminal activities including murder and kidnapping. Ramadi citizens brought him to an Iraqi and U. S. forces military base in...
Just in case you ever hear someone say we do not have a strategy for winning in Iraq, you can ask them to read this. Victory in Iraq is Defined in Stages * Short term , Iraq is making steady progress in fighting terrorists, meeting political milestones, building democratic institutions, and standing up security forces. * Medium term , Iraq is in the lead defeating terrorists and providing its own security, with a fully constitutional government in place, and on its way to ...
U.S. MILITARY TOPS 5,000 MILESTONE TWICE U.S. Disaster Assistance Center Pakistan – U.S. military aviation and medical units both exceeded a 5,000 milestone in the last two days here while supporting Pakistani-led earthquake relief efforts. U.S. helicopters reached the first milestone on Dec. 3 when the total aid they have delivered topped more than 5,000 tons. The second milestone was reached by the U.S. hospital in Muzaffarabad when the 5,000th patient walked through their doors on...
Dec. 3, 2005 – Task Force Baghdad soldiers rescued two kidnapping victims during a routine vehicle search at a checkpoint in western Baghdad on Dec. 1, military officials in Iraq said today. Soldiers from 1st Squadron, 71st Cavalry, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, found two Iraqi civilians bound and gagged in the trunk of a white sedan. The two individuals, employed by an American contractor, claimed they had been taken hostage and were to be murdered. The car's driver...
One of the justifications for an increase in the number of days a terrorist suspect can be held in the UK without charge, from 14 to 90, is the time it takes to decipher what is on a suspect's computer hard drive. Assistant commissioner at the Met Police, Andy Hayman, has claimed the extra time is needed in order to make sure that all the evidence from a seized PC is located before someone is released. The question is: why does it take so long? The Met Police has a high-tech crime unit...
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I remember hearing ths week about the soldiers that were killed and the two or three car bombs that went off in Iraq. But what I did not hear was this week in Iraq, 526 insurgents were detained or killed and 104 weapons caches were discovered during 355 combined operations throughout the country. More than 30 percent of those operations were conducted independently by Iraqi Security Forces. But I did hear about the other stuff. Hmm wonder which shows more positive aspects of our troops....
Nov. 30, 2005 – Iraqi and U. S. forces have removed more than 4,200 mortar rounds from a major weapons cache found Nov. 27 outside of an abandoned military base near Kirkuk, Iraq, military officials reported. Iraqi soldiers discovered the buried rounds that morning. The soldiers removed about 800 mortar rounds before realizing the cache was much larger than originally thought. U. S. soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team were called in to help excavate the...