Articles 9.29.2004
Iraqi Defense Minister Hazim al-Shalaan told a Reuters reporter on 9.29.2004 that U.S. and Iraqi forces will retake rebel-held cities in October, including Falluja and Ramadi. U.S. officials had previously stated that these areas will be retaken by the end of the year in preparations for January elections. However, military analysts suggest major offensives "could still be delayed or avoided altogether."
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An article in the North County Times, CA, discusses the working relationship between the 2nd BCT and the 1st Marine Division in the Anbar region. Some quotes from the article:
"After arriving in Habbaniyah, Iraq, in late August, the Korea-based soldiers have entered the bloody fray around Fallujah and Ramadi in the Iraqi province of Al Anbar, according to officials.
Recent operations in Fallujah have been limited to almost daily airstrikes by U.S. fighter jets on buildings the military says are meeting places of insurgents and fighters loyal to Jordanian-born terror suspect Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
The U.S. military suspended an offensive in the spring, leaving the city to de facto control by various Iraqi militia and foreign fighters.
In Ramadi, however, the fighting has involved more ground forces in urban firefights as the joint Army-Marine force has tried to keep that city open to U.S. troops.
Stars & Stripes reported that a raid last week in Ramadi included the Army's 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment; 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment; 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment; 17th Field Artillery Regiment; and two Marine infantry battalions."
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An interesting article from 9.29.2004 in the NY Times (as published in the Wilmington Star, discusses statistics of attacks in Iraq. "Over the past 30 days, more than 2,300 attacks by insurgents have been directed against civilians and military targets in Iraq, in a pattern that sprawls over nearly every major population center outside the Kurdish north, according to comprehensive data compiled by a private security company with access to military intelligence reports and its own network of Iraqi informants."
"During the past 30 days those attacks totaled...332 in the desert badlands of Anbar Province in the west," where the 2nd BCT operates.
Iraqi Prime minister Ayad Allawi, in a press conference last week, "said that of Iraq's 18 provinces, "14 to 15 are completely safe." He added that the other provinces suffer "pockets of terrorists" who inflict damage in them and plot attacks carried out elsewhere in the country." I assume Anbar is not one of those 14 or 15.
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An article in the North County Times, CA, discusses the working relationship between the 2nd BCT and the 1st Marine Division in the Anbar region. Some quotes from the article:
"After arriving in Habbaniyah, Iraq, in late August, the Korea-based soldiers have entered the bloody fray around Fallujah and Ramadi in the Iraqi province of Al Anbar, according to officials.
Recent operations in Fallujah have been limited to almost daily airstrikes by U.S. fighter jets on buildings the military says are meeting places of insurgents and fighters loyal to Jordanian-born terror suspect Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
The U.S. military suspended an offensive in the spring, leaving the city to de facto control by various Iraqi militia and foreign fighters.
In Ramadi, however, the fighting has involved more ground forces in urban firefights as the joint Army-Marine force has tried to keep that city open to U.S. troops.
Stars & Stripes reported that a raid last week in Ramadi included the Army's 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment; 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment; 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment; 17th Field Artillery Regiment; and two Marine infantry battalions."
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An interesting article from 9.29.2004 in the NY Times (as published in the Wilmington Star, discusses statistics of attacks in Iraq. "Over the past 30 days, more than 2,300 attacks by insurgents have been directed against civilians and military targets in Iraq, in a pattern that sprawls over nearly every major population center outside the Kurdish north, according to comprehensive data compiled by a private security company with access to military intelligence reports and its own network of Iraqi informants."
"During the past 30 days those attacks totaled...332 in the desert badlands of Anbar Province in the west," where the 2nd BCT operates.
Iraqi Prime minister Ayad Allawi, in a press conference last week, "said that of Iraq's 18 provinces, "14 to 15 are completely safe." He added that the other provinces suffer "pockets of terrorists" who inflict damage in them and plot attacks carried out elsewhere in the country." I assume Anbar is not one of those 14 or 15.
posted by Ryan Kirk @ 6:10 AM
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