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October 25, 2005
The votes have been counted and it's official, the Iraqi's have a new constitution! AP Results released by the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq after a 10-day-audit showed that Sunni Arabs, who had sharply opposed the draft document, failed to ...
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October 18, 2005
Believed to be 40-ish and Moroccan, a former Arabic translator for the U.S. Army has been charged with making false statements to the FBI, Department of Defense officials, and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service. The criminal complaint filed last ...
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October 16, 2005
Hey hey! It looks like the Iraqi's are ready to move forward as they went to the polls this weekend. Even more voters participated than in January which is a sign that Iraqi's are not only interested in their future, ...
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September 23, 2005
Bill O'Reilly had Phil Donahue on the O'Reilly Factor on the Fox News Channel and lit into him over his support of Cindy Shehan and her outrageous radical views. Crooks and Liars has the video. The video is 9.8M ...
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Ahmad Khadir Shahd al-Ghariri, a leader of one of the most vicious terrorist groups operating in Iraq, has been captured. Army of Ansar al-Sunnah has been tied to ransom demands, executions and beheadings throughout the country. For atrocities they have ...
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September 09, 2005
Roy Hallums is aboard a plane and headed back to the US. Welcome home Roy! KESQ Roy Hallums, the American businessman who was freed in Iraq this week after being held hostage for 10 months, is on his way back ...
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August 05, 2005
From Reuters:Insurgents blew up a U.S. assault vehicle in western Iraq Wednesday, killing 14 Marines and a civilian interpreter in the deadliest roadside bomb attack against American forces since the war began. From WKYC.com:According to U.S. Central Command, 14 Marines ...
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June 22, 2005
Last November, Filipino accountant Robert Tarongoy was abducted in Iraq and held captive. Today, he was released under circumstances that haven't been explained. From The Manila Times:Robert Tarongoy, the Filipino accountant held captive in Iraq since November, has been ...
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May 30, 2005
Top: Marie Jeanne Ion;Center:Sorin Dumitru Miscoci;Bottom:Ovidiu Ohanesian An American, Mohammed Monaf, has been indicted in Romania for being complicit in the hostage taking of three Romanians on March 29, 2005. It seems it may have all been a plot ...
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May 27, 2005
The Army of Ansar al-Sunnah has posted a video on its website of what they claim is Akihiko Saito's dead body. They claim Saito, a Japanese security guard taken hostage on May 9, 2005, died from wounds sustained during ...
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Well this is just the strangest thing. It seems 300 Filipinos contracted to work for Prime Projects International and Kellog Brown and Root at Camp Cooke in the province of Taji, Iraq have went on strike after a contract dispute. ...
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May 18, 2005
Could Iraq be divided into a federation of 6 states? Why not I say. Each region of Iraq have differing views on things. The only potential problem with it is that it could quickly descend into civil war if the ...
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May 11, 2005
There is news from an Iraqi Colonel, Fouad Hani Hassan, that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has been injured or killed in recent fighting in the west Anbar province near Qaim. Could this be the end for this piece of scum? AKI ...
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I just received an email from my mom with pictures from some of her military friends who went through a sandstorm in Al Asad on April 26, 2005. Click images below for a popup. Looks like a scene from The ...
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Update: (May 28, 2005 12:22AM PST) The Army of Ansar al-Sunnah has released a video of what they claim is the dead body of Akihiko Saito. See Army of Ansar al-Sunnah Claims Japanese Hostage Akihiko Saito Is Dead [ Update ...
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May 02, 2005
From a Xinhua report, Immigration Minister Paul Swain told a former diplomat for Saddam Hussein to get the hell out of New Zealand. The diplomat wasn't named and the only reason given was that it was "unsuitable" for the man ...
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April 30, 2005
Giuliana Sgrena, the Italian journalist taken hostage in Iraq, has made claims that the car they were in after she was freed March 4, 2005 was travelling at a normal rate of speed when it approached a US checkpoint and ...
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April 12, 2005
An American contractor working on reconstruction projects in Iraq has been taken hostage near Baghdad. The hostage's name has not yet been released. FOX News A U.S. Embassy spokesman speaking on condition of anonymity said the American contractor was abducted ...
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A diplomat working for the Pakistani embassy in Iraq was taken hostage by a group calling itself Omar bin Khattab who are most likely looking for ransom payment. Thanks Philippines and Italy. Washington Post "Mr Javed is absolutely safe," Foreign ...
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April 11, 2005
This is just ridiculous. This murderous thug could avoid the death penalty or even if given the death penalty it could be vetoed by the new president of Iraq. Leaving this man alive after all the murderous things he's done ...
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May 8, 2004 the body of Nicholas Berg was found dangling by a rope around the ankles from a highway overpass in Baghdad. Nick Berg was one of the first beheaded by the terrorists. Four photos have recently surfaced of ...
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March 31, 2005
The Army of Ansar Al-Sunnah has released a video of 3 Iraqi's who worked for a Jordanian trucking company being executed. They claim the truck drivers were working for Americans. Scotsman The identities and nationalities of the dead men ...
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March 29, 2005
The Philippine government has confirmed that there were Filipino terrorists killed in raids by Iraqi military last week that took out 85 of the terrorists. Whether these are members of the Abu Sayyaf is not yet known. Didn't the government ...
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March 25, 2005
Two years after the beginning of the invasion of Iraq things are looking up for the country. Elections have been held, Iraqi Citizens have fought back against terrorists and the Iraqi troops are being trained to a point where coalition ...
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March 20, 2005
With a lot more work to do there is some very good news from the top Marine in Iraq that attacks have dropped sharply in the past 4 months. New York Times The officer, Lt. Gen. John F. Sattler, head ...
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Further proof that the Iraqi's are getting fed up with the foreign terrorist in their country is the discovery of 7 bodies of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's al-Qaeda in Iraq terrorist members. The bodies were found in Ramadi and each had ...
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March 18, 2005
To all the people who whined about Silvio Berlusconi announcing Italy will pull troops out of Iraq starting in September, I wonder if they will now bash the US, as I questioned in my entry on the Italy pullout. The ...
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March 16, 2005
This is a surprise to most as Berlusconi has been a pretty staunch supporter of the Iraqi conflict since day one. However, with things winding up over there and more Iraqi's defending themselves I can see his point. Some would ...
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March 11, 2005
The terrorist group Jeish al-Mujahideen, which is holding hostage Roberto Tarongoy, has apparently lifted a deadline they set to murder the hostage. Initially the group said if their demands of $10 million and the pullout of 6,500 Filipino's by ...
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Roberto Tarongoy appeared on al-Jazeera March 7 in an orange jumpsuit at which time his hostage takers said he will be executed by Friday if their demands are not met. President Arroyo of the Philippines is reported by a ...
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March 09, 2005
Taifor Abdulsattar Malallah, a leader of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's al-Qaeda in Iraq terrorist group in Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, has been arrested by Iraqi security forces. One more notch in the bedpost for the Iraqi's. Kuna An Iraqi police source ...
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March 07, 2005
Here's a few little updates on the Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena. The Car Giuliana Sgrena Claims Was Shot 3-400 timesThe Car Bonnie And Clyde Died InBoth Were Shot Over 50 Times In An Ambush First we have the car (pictured ...
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March 06, 2005
Giuliana Sgrena, the freed Italian Journalist who was being held hostage in Iraq by terrorists, claimed that US forces deliberately targeted her for attack. The car she was in was speeding towards a checkpoint at Baghdad airport when the checkpoint ...
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March 04, 2005
Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena who has been held hostage by terrorists in Iraq since February 4, 2005 has been released. It did not go smooth however and the car she was in sped towards a checkpoint without stopping. The ...
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February 18, 2005
Kahraman Sadikoglu, a Turkish Businessman taken hostage December 16, 2004 in the port city of Umm Qasr, has been released after paying $500,000 in ransom to the hostage takers. The hostage takers were former Iraqi soldiers of Saddam Hussein who ...
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February 16, 2005
A video tape of Italian hostage Giuliana Sgrena, who was taken hostage Feb 4, 2005, was released this morning by the terrorists who are holding her hostage. In the video she is pleading in French and Italian for all ...
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February 10, 2005
The saga of Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena continues. Just days after a terrorist group claimed to have executed her, her employer, Il Manifesto, now says it has contact through a third party who has seen her multiple times. The exact ...
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February 08, 2005
The Mujahedeen Brigade In Iraq has claimed to have executed Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena. This is the third group to have claimed having taken hostage Sgrena. The first was The Islamic Jihad Organization then on Feb. 6 The Jihad Organization ...
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February 07, 2005
The Army of Ansar al-Sunnah has released the video execution of an Iraqi interpreter, Safad Mohammed Hassan, they took in the city of Mosul. The Army of Ansar al-Sunnah does not seem to like beheading like Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and ...
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The Army of Ansar al-Sunnah has shot dead 7 Iraqi's it claims to have captured near Abu Ghraib. The video of the murders is available at Terrorist Media (free registration, but donations are encouraged) The Jawa Report (where there are ...
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It has been announced by the terrorist group the Jihad Organization that an Italian reporter Giuliana Sgrena, 56, is to be released in "the next few days". Sgrena was ambushed and taken hostage Feb. 4, along with 3 Iraqi's, in ...
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February 06, 2005
Two separate groups are claiming they have Italian reporter Giuliana Sgrena. The first group, the Islamic Jihad Organization, set a 72 hour deadline for Italy to remove it's troops from Iraq. The second and latest group, the Jihad Organization, says ...
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A Medal of Honor has not been issued since two Special Forces soldiers were awarded them posthumously in 1993 after their unselfish sacrifice in Somalia. Sergeant First Class Paul R. Smith joins a small group of true hero's who have ...
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If I was being held hostage in Iraq I would welcome any help, even that of Jesse Jackson. As long as Jackson doesn't screw up the whole situation I see no harm in this. Yahoo/AP The Rev. Jesse Jackson will ...
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February 04, 2005
Well here's some great news. Iraqi townspeople in the village of al-Mudhariya were threatened by terrorists that if they voted they would come back to attack them. The townspeople voted anyway and when the terrorists came back the townspeople attacked ...
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Giuliana Sgrena, an Italian Journalist working out of Iraq for the Rome daily Il Manifesto was taken hostage. She was seized while in her car with two Iraqi reporters and a driver, who were all later released. The terrorists took ...
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February 02, 2005
A captured suicide bomber who didn't die during his attack, but received burns over 70% of his body, led to some of the most recent captures of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi aides, including Abu Omar al-Kurdi, Zarqawi's top bomb making ...
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February 01, 2005
You simply can't get any lower than using a child with downs syndrome to perform a suicide bombing. As reported below one of the suicide bombers at a polling station during Iraq's election was a mentally handicapped child. Washington Post ...
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January 29, 2005
I am excited that the Iraqi people have stood up and begun voting. You have now declared your independence. You are now responsible for ending the cruelty that has been brought upon your country by the terrorists. We are there ...
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January 28, 2005
Three more aides gone. Who is Zarqawi relying on for his support now, the Gomer Pyle of the terrorists? Yahoo/AP With crucial national elections only two days away, Iraqi officials announced the arrests of three more purported lieutenants of Abu ...
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January 27, 2005
A secretary to Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi was shot to death on a video released on an islamic website. The group is said to be that of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's al-Qaeda in Iraq although it could not be verified. ...
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Moammar Gadhafi has responded to the recent Roy Hallums taped plea asking for Arab leaders, and in particular Gadhafi, to intervene in his hostage situation. The terrorists are demanding $12 million dollars in ransom. Yahoo/AP Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi on ...
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January 26, 2005
Sulayman Khalid Darwish, a Syrian, has been designated by the U.S, Treasury Department as a financial supporter of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi who is the leader of the terrorist group al-Qaeda in Iraq. The designation allows the U.S. to freeze all ...
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January 25, 2005
Roy Hallums, who was taken hostage November 1, 2004 with another hostage still being held, Filipino Roberto Tarongoy, was seen for the first time today in a video released from his terrorist captors. In the video Hallums is seen ...
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January 24, 2005
Eighteen Talon robots (see description at The Foster-Miller Company) are being deployed to Iraq. These robots have been used previously in Bosnia and Afghanistan as well as for recovery missions at the World Trade Center after 9/11. Australian Broadcast ...
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These daylight executions seem to be all the rage these days as the terrorists are trying to find the most shocking thing they can do right before the upcoming January 30, 2005 Iraqi elections. A few days ago there ...
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The top bomb making aide for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was captured a little over a week ago. Responsible for over 30 car bombs and numerous attacks on Iraqi police, Abu Omar al-Kurdi, confessed to a good percentage of them. Also ...
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January 23, 2005
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi continues to taunt the Iraqi community in a tape released today on the Internet. In the tape Zarqawi threatens violence on Election Day January 30, 2005, and declared a "bitter war". He has called anyone who votes ...
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A video of two Iraqi's being beheaded was released onto the internet yesterday. In the video the two men, Ali Hussein Jassem Mohammad al-Zubaidi and Ahmad Alwan Hussein al-Mahmadawi who are truck drivers, are made to confess for working with ...
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January 22, 2005
China bowed to the demands of the terrorist group Nuamaan Brigade of the Islamic Resistance and issued a statement that all Chinese should stay out of Iraq. The terrorists said they would free the 8 Chinese hostages if China issued ...
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Iraq's Defense Minister said that Ahmed Chalabi is to be arrested today for allegedly defaming the Defense Ministry. Legal proceedings could begin as early as tommorow after the end of the Eid al-Adha holidays. Chalabi has also been accused of ...
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January 21, 2005
A broad daylight beheading in the streets of Baghdad. Beheadings in public have happened in Mosul, but this is in the middle of Baghdad on the street in the middle of the day! Kuna Witnesses said here Friday that a ...
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The latest tape from Abu Musab al-Zarqawi says that a terrorist victory could take months or years as they wear down the "arrogant American Tyrant" morale. The tape, which was posted on an islamic website, has not been verified yet ...
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Two slaughter houses, used by terrorists, were destroyed near Baghdad yesterday by Task Force Baghdad Soldiers. I covered the discovery of slaughter houses in Fallujah back in November, 2004. On November 24th, 2004 I managed to acquire some pictures from ...
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January 20, 2005
A Japanese engineer was taken hostage after his two Iraqi bodyguards were killed in an apparent planned attack. The identity of the engineer is not yet known. Yahoo/AP The engineer, who worked at a power station in the city of ...
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January 19, 2005
Eight Chinese workers in Iraq were taken hostage by an unknown terrorist group calling itself Nuamaan Brigade of the Islamic Resistance. They have threatened to kill the hostages if China does not make its intentions clear within 48 hours. ABC ...
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January 18, 2005
Catholic Archbishop Basile Georges Casmoussa, 66, who was taken hostage January 17, 2005 has been freed by his captors. The hostage takers had demanded $200,000 for the release of the Archbishop, but the Vatican is claiming he was released without ...
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Army of Ansar al-Sunnah has taken claim for the kidnapping of 15 Iraqi National Guard Troops on January 14, 2005. Hindustan Times The 15 guardsmen had been pulled from a bus on Friday near their base in the town of ...
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Catholic Archbishop Basile Georges Casmoussa, 66, was taken hostage in outside of his church in Mosul. A witness said a car drove up, grabbed the Archbishop and threw him in the trunk and drove away. No group has claimed the ...
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January 04, 2005
You just have to read about a male Marine who accidentally was sent a care package meant for a female soldier. Those wacky Marines out there saving our ass. The story itself ends on a serious note and I consider ...
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December 30, 2004
The Mosul base that was the scene of the mess tent bomb has once again been attacked, this time in a full frontal assault. Yahoo/AP Insurgents tried to ram a truck with half a ton of explosives into a U.S. ...
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December 27, 2004
A new tape purportedly from terrorist Osama Bin Laden has been received by Al-Jazeera. In the tape the voice dubs Abu Musab al-Zarqawi his deputy in Iraq. The voice also proclaims that any Iraqi who votes in the upcoming elections ...
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December 02, 2004
Baby Wipes, Energy Bars and Gloves, just three of the twenty things recommended as "must haves" by the Marines from 3rd Platoon Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment. Blogs of War has the other seventeen and descriptions and comments ...
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November 24, 2004
Investigations in Fallujah have turned up a number of facts and images that show us the horrors that were happening in the city. Several facts that have emerged (courtesy of IMEF & MNC-I EFFECTS Exploitation Team). Mosques in Fallujah100 Mosques ...
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November 22, 2004
It seems like the scale of the Fallujah hostage housing was larger than I figured it would be. I thought it would be more concentrated into a smaller location as not to be discovered, but it seems that everything was ...
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Marines have shot and killed a terrorist who was playing dead, just like this terrorist was. Australian Broadcast Corp The US military says marines in Fallujah have shot and killed an insurgent who engaged them as he was faking being ...
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November 17, 2004
Some stories going around about possible Sarin vials found in Fallujah. The Second picture in this USA Today slideshow seems to show Sarin related material. There's more information at Power Line, Captain's Quarters, INDC ...
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November 16, 2004
There's an amazing video of a battle in Fallujah. Click the image below for the video. (You may want to right-click and "save as..." 4.9M .asf file) Tipped by: Bravo Romeo Delta, who has it crossposted at The Jawa Report ...
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November 12, 2004
BlackFive passes along this video of Marines in Fallujah facing a sniper on a roof as they do house to house clearing of the city. ...
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November 10, 2004
There's not a lot of word on this, but Fox News is reporting that "Hostage Slaughter Houses" have been discovered in Fallujah. These are houses where groups of hostages were taken and mass slaughtered. As more word comes in I'll ...
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November 08, 2004
Marines held a mock Ben-Hur chariot race on Saturday before they went into Fallujah last night. Ben-Hur is one of my favorite movies, I've probably watched it over 50 times. This sounds like fun to me. Yahoo/AP For U.S. ...
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November 07, 2004
Good, maybe the stupid politicians and diplomats will actually let the military do its job this time and stop interfering. AP U.S. forces stormed into western districts of Fallujah early Monday, seizing the main city hospital and securing two key ...
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November 05, 2004
Scott Speicher was the pilot who was lost over Iraq in the first Gulf War and never found. There were even rumors he was being held alive. After the fall of Baghdad in the second war there was a large ...
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November 04, 2004
The New Scientist is reporting that after extensive studies by researchers at the Veterans Administration, the cause of Gulf War Syndrome has been possibly traced to exposure to Sarin gas. According to leaks of a report, which is due to ...
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October 29, 2004
What an incredible video of our boys in action during a rooftop battle. The sound just makes your adrenalin flow as you hear the "buh buh buh - buh buh buh" of the big guns unleashing, interspersed with smaller ...
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October 21, 2004
My take on this whole thing is pretty simple, the unit commander should be demoted. I've been in the military since I was about 5 years old (Army brat) and I don't think I've heard even one time of 18 ...
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October 14, 2004
Mortar rounds coming out of Syria have been shelling US and Iraqi troops with the instances of attack increasing in the past few days. The Syrian government doesn't seem to be doing anything about it. Donald Rumsfeld said the Syrians ...
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October 11, 2004
Thanks to Blogs of War for pointing me to this nice email form that the Polish American Middle Eastern Initiative has set up. Head on over there and drop a nice little note to the Polish troops over there rebuilding ...
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September 26, 2004
Syria's President is in negotiations with Iran to send over some of the Iraqi nuclear scientists that were sent to Damascus last year before the beginning of the Iraq war. Via The Telegraph Western intelligence officials believe that President Asad ...
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Mahdi Obeidi, the author of a new book, "The Bomb in My Garden: The Secrets of Saddam's Nuclear Mastermind." has a lot to say in an op-ed piece in The New York Times (use Bug Me Not to bypass registering). ...
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September 15, 2004
Rusty over at My Pet Jawa seems to have had enough with us being in Iraq. So is it time to pull out? I personally see where Rusty is coming from on this. The Iraqi's don't seem to want to ...
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September 10, 2004
Being a history buff I don't see how anyone can say that a conflict that has gone on for 1 1/2 years, had only 1000 killed, liberated a nation from a dictatorial regime and allowed millions to have a shot ...
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September 05, 2004
The blogosphere is buzzing on this rumor/news that Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, Saddam's Number 2, instrumental in the rise of the Baath party and right hand man throughout Saddams reign of terror, has been captured. The Command Post has a roundup ...
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