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Abizaid, Swannack Escape Injury in Fallujah Attack By Donna MilesAmerican Forces Press ServiceWASHINGTON, Feb. 12, 2004 -- The top military commander in Southwest Asia and the commander of the 82nd Airborne Division escaped injury today when their convoy was attacked while entering an Iraqi Civil Defense Corps battalion headquarters in Fallujah, Iraq. Army Gen. John Abizaid, commander of U.S. Central Command, Maj. Gen. Charles H. Swannack Jr., 82nd Airborne Division commander, and all other members of their group were reported safe following the incident, which took place at about 1:30 p.m. local time (5:30 a.m. EST). Army Brig. Gen....

U.S. Mideast Commander Escapes Iraq RPG Attack BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. commander in the Middle East, General John Abizaid, escaped unharmed from a rocket-propelled grenade attack in Iraq (news - web sites) on Thursday, the U.S. army said. "At 1330 in Falluja, General Abizaid and General (Charles) Swannack were visiting a local Iraqi civil defense corps compound when three rocket-propelled grenades were fired at their convoy from rooftops nearby," Brigadier-General Mark Kimmitt told a news conference. "No coalition soldiers or civilians were injured." Kimmitt, the chief U.S. military spokesman in Iraq, said American forces returned fire and unsuccessfully pursued...

The head of US Central Command in Iraq, General John Abizaid, has escaped unharmed from a rocket-propelled grenade attack in Fallujah. General Abizaid and General Charles Swannack were travelling in an army convoy when it was attacked. "General Abizaid and General Swannack were visiting a local Iraqi civil defence corps compound when three rocket-propelled grenades were fired at their convoy from rooftops nearby," Brigadier-General Mark Kimmitt said. "No coalition soldiers or civilians were injured." The attack comes only a day after more than 100 Iraqis were killed by two separate suicide attacks in Iraq.

MOSUL, Iraq - The Army's new Stryker vehicle had its first combat encounter with a rocket-propelled grenade Friday. The round struck the front of the vehicle above its slat armor cage, cutting a hose inside the engine compartment. The vehicle commander suffered a superficial cut near his nose, officials said. But the Fort Lewis crew was otherwise unhurt and drove the vehicle out of danger, their company commander and 1st sergeant said. It was one of four RPG attacks on Strykers on Friday in Mosul. The other three rounds missed. Soldiers throughout the brigade had figured it was only a...

U.S. troops in this central Iraqi town held a memorial service Thursday for a 21-year-old Albania-born soldier from Texas who was killed in a rocket propelled grenade attack. Pfc. Ervin Dervishi from Fort Worth died Sunday from wounds suffered after the Bradley fighting vehicle he was driving was attacked the night before in Beiji. Dervishi, from the 4th Infantry Division, 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, was attached to the Beiji-based 3rd Battalion 66th Armor Regiment. Around 200 fellow soldiers including the 4th Infantry Division's commanding officer, Maj. Gen. Raymond Odierno, attended the memorial service at a U.S. Army base in...

U.S. Soldier Dies in Iraq Grenade Attack

Dec. 27 MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. soldiers killed four Iraqis in the northern city of Mosul on Saturday after coming under rocket-propelled grenade and small arms fire, U.S. military officials said. Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division, which controls a large swathe of northern Iraq, said they were checking for improvised explosives devices often used by guerrillas against U.S. troops when they came under attack.Staff Sgt. Eldon Noble said U.S. troops returned fire, destroying a car from which they had been attacked and killing its four occupants. Iraqi paramedics pulled charred corpses from the car, which U.S. soldiers...

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CAMP UDAIRI, Kuwait - Pfc. Gerard Minnitto normally packs a light machine gun, but these days the Stryker brigade infantryman from Tacoma is turning a wrench. He's among the soldiers and General Dynamics contractors working around the clock to bolt slat armor onto the brigade's fleet of more than 300 Strykers before they move up into Iraq. The armor - each looking like a great green cage - is meant to protect the $2 million vehicles and the soldiers inside from rocket-propelled grenades. The inexpensive shoulder-fired RPGs are ubiquitous in Iraq and have killed dozens of U.S. troops. Naturally, Minnitto...

Just saw it reported on FOX.

<p>BAGHDAD, Iraq -- An Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed Friday near the north-central city of Tikrit, the U.S. military said. The crash came a day after Poland suffered its first combat death since the aftermath of World War II and two American soldiers died in attacks near Baghdad and along the Syrian border.</p> <p>It was not known whether the Black Hawk helicopter went down due to mechanical failure or hostile fire.</p>

World - AFP Blackhawk down in Iraq, six US soldiers killed 11 minutes ago Add World - AFP to My Yahoo! TIKRIT, Iraq (AFP) - Six US soldiers were killed when a Blackhawk helicopter was "forced down" outside a US military base near Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s hometown of Tikrit. Fri Nov 7, 8:33 AM ET A US soldier holds his pistol as he asks people to go inside during a weapons search in Fallujah. Six US soldiers were killed when a US Blackhawk helicopter was 'forced down' outside a US military base near the northern Iraqi town...

WASHINGTON -- A mystery munition knocked a U.S. Army M1A1 Abrams tank out of commission in Iraq, leading the Pentagon to question whether the terrorists have a secret weapon in their arsenal. An unclassified Army report says a projectile punched through the vehicle and drilled a pencil-sized hole through the hull. The hole was so small that, according to the author's report, "my little finger will not go into it." The Abrams tank is nearly invulnerable to attack. Only two have been disabled by enemy fire during the entire Iraq campaign, according to the Army Times. The other one was...

<p>Shortly before dawn on Aug. 28, an M1A1 Abrams tank on routine patrol in Baghdad “was hit by something” that crippled the 69-ton behemoth. Army officials still are puzzling over what that “something” was.</p> <p>According to an unclassified Army report, the mystery projectile punched through the vehicle’s skirt and drilled a pencil-sized hole through the hull. The hole was so small that “my little finger will not go into it,” the report’s author noted.</p>

NEWS RELEASEHEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND7115 South Boundary BoulevardMacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894 October 26, 2003Release Number: 03-10-02 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE UH-60 HELICOPTER HIT WITH RPG, DOWNEDBAGHDAD, Iraq - On 25 Oct, at approximately 4 p.m., one of two UH-60 “Black Hawk” helicopters assigned to the 3-158th Aviation Regiment, 12th Aviation Brigade, while performing a reconnaissance mission in the vicinity of Tikrit, was hit in one of its engines by a rocket propelled grenade. The crew was able to perform a controlled emergency landing. However, once on the ground the helicopter caught fire...

<p>Guerrillas fired small arms and rocket-propelled grenades at a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter after it came down Saturday in a field near Tikrit, wounding one soldier and causing the craft to explode in flames and spew a column of black smoke, the U.S. military said.</p>

<p>Deadly ambush teams struck U.S. Army targets from west to north in the arc of resistance around Baghdad, and the interim Iraqi leader called Sunday for an immediate mobilization of the old Iraqi army to help the harried Americans.</p> <p>The United States would "speed the process of relieving the burden on its troops" by recalling the disbanded Iraqi military, said Iyad Allawi, current president of the Iraqi Governing Council. The idea got a cool reception, however, from Baghdad's U.S.-led occupation authorities.</p>

Iraqi Civilian Uses Business Skills to Take Down Missiles By Spc. Joshua M. Risner, USASpecial to American Forces Press Service DOHUK, Iraq, Oct. 15, 2003 – Thanks to an Iraqi civilian's actions, a load of 188 SA-7 surface-to-air missiles are headed to Mosul for disposal. The missiles are shoulder-fired weapons, similar to a rocket-propelled grenade in operation, according to Sgt. 1st Gilbert Ortiz, G-3, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). "Just one of these things is capable of taking down an aircraft," he said. "They could also be used as improvised explosive devices." Pfc. Scott Cothren, of Battery B, 1st...

TIKRIT, Iraq - U.S. troops uncovered one of their biggest weapons caches to date Saturday at a farm near Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s birthplace, including anti-aircraft missiles and a huge quantity of explosives used to make the homemade bombs that have killed numerous American soldiers. In the second raid in as many days on a farm near the village of Uja, where Saddam was born and the site of a recent bomb attack against American soldiers, U.S. troops acting on a tip dug through the soft earth near a river bank and found the cache underneath a covering...

This is only on their ticker at the moment. Don't know if it's just a minor event or if there are casualties.