Posted on 09/17/2003 9:47:05 AM PDT by Diogenesis
U.S. troops examine a Humvee vehicle destroyed in a fatal blast near the restive central Iraq (news - web sites) town of Fallujah, September 14, 2003. Sheikh Khaled Saleh, a fiery Iraqi Sunni Muslim cleric, says the young angry men battling U.S. troops in Fallujah are holy warriors who look to Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) as their mentor. 'Although unorganized and without leadership, the Iraqi resistance is a ball of fire in America's face that will bring its end in Iraq,' said the 53-year-old cleric, whose sermons draw thousands in the main Badawi mosque, one of over 70 mosques in the center of Fallujah. Photo by Akram Saleh/Reuters
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Up to 2,000 foreign fighters bent on harming Americans and other coalition soldiers in Iraq (news - web sites) may have flocked to the Middle East country following its invasion by the United States and Britain
Dr. Rice - "I guess our troop will have 2,000 more targets to take out."
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A U.S.-trained Iraqi police instructor demonstrates how to search suspects in a bomb loaded vehicle during a training course for a U.S.-backed, 400-strong police force set up to protect an important Shiite Muslim shrine in Najaf, Iraq (news - web sites) Wednesday Sept. 17, 2003. The building of the force, officially called the 'Shrine Police Force,' was accelerated after the assassination on Aug. 29 of Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim outside the shrine of Imam Ali in Najaf.
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Two U.S.-trained Iraqi police instructors demonstrate how to search suspects for weapons during a training course for a U.S.-backed, 400-strong police force set up to protect an important Shiite Muslim shrine in Najaf, Iraq (news - web sites) Wednesday Sept. 17, 2003. The building of the force, officially called the 'Shrine Police Force,' was accelerated after the assassination on Aug. 29 of Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim outside the shrine of Imam Ali in Najaf.
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Two U.S.-trained Iraqi police instructors demonstrate how things can go wrong when searching for car bombs during a training course for a U.S.-backed, 400-strong police force set up to protect an important Shiite Muslim shrine in Najaf, Iraq (news - web sites) Wednesday Sept. 17, 2003. The building of the force, officially called the 'Shrine Police Force,' was accelerated after the assassination on Aug. 29 of Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim outside the shrine of Imam Ali in Najaf
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New Iraqi soldiers listen to an Iraqi instructor during a course at a military camp in Mosul, 400 kms, 250 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites), Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2003
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Joshua Legaspi, 4, of Ewa Beach on Oahu whispers to his father Ryan Legaspi, 27, as his mother Rowena looks on at Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, September 16, 2003 . Legaspi and 22 other Marines from 4th Force Reconnaissance Company were activated to serve during the war, along with 28 Marines from 3rd Radio Battalion who all returned after being deployed for more than seven months in Iraq
LOL! Fer shure. We got a lot of respect from the infantry, eh? I'll never forget one dark night we were on maneuvers and doing a passage of lines through a dismounted infantry unit. They were supposed to point filtered flashlights at us so we wouldn't run 'em over. As we rumbled up to the front lines, I never so so many lights in my life. They had everything turned on.
I heard that. I knew an E6 Infantryman who had a misshapen head. He had actually been run over while he slept on the ground in Hohenfels. Tank went right over his head. It was the mud that saved him. Still cracked his noggin open though. He was just a PFC when it happened- it obviously didn't affect his career choice any and he seemed normal enough so it must not have affected his gearbox too much either (other than the cosmetic work). Good soldier he was.
Thank goodness he lived. I don't feel so guilty laughing out loud at your story!
A group of British soldiers put up a tent covering after arriving at the airport in the southern Iraqi city of Basra Wednesday Sept. 17, 2003. Some 600 soldiers have arrived as part of a planned British reinforcement in southern Iraq
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A group of British soldiers gather their gear after arriving at the airport in the southern Iraqi city of Basra Wednesday Sept. 17, 2003. Some 600 soldiers have arrived as part of a planned British reinforcement in southern Iraq
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Soldiers from the "New Iraqi Army" answer journalists' questions following exercises at the US military base of Kirkush, 90 kms east of Baghdad. Paul Bremer, the US overseer in Iraq (news - web sites), said earlier this month three battalions had been recruited for an Iraqi civil defence corps, some 2,500 border personnel had been signed up, and one battalion of the new Iraqi army was in training
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Iraqi Kurdish schoolgirls walk past a memorial to those killed during a poison gas attack by Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s forces in 1988 in a square in the eastern Kurdish Iraqi border town of Halabja. US Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) honoured during a visit to Halabja thousands of Kurds gassed by ousted Hussein's forces. Some 5,000 civilians, mostly women and children, died in the 1988 attack by Saddam's airforce, and medical reports say that residents of the town are still suffering from a wide variety of health disorders
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Soldiers from the "New Iraqi Army" wait in line during exercises at the US military base of Kirkush, 90 kms east of Baghdad. Paul Bremer, the US overseer in Iraq (news - web sites), said earlier this month three battalions had been recruited for an Iraqi civil defence corps, some 2,500 border personnel had been signed up, and one battalion of the new Iraqi army was in training. Overall, he said, nearly 60,000 Iraqis were currently in uniform
Ulps! I might be next!
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MIAMI.com - THE MIAMI HERALD: "MIAMI POLICE ON 'ORANGE ALERT'" by Charles Savage (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Responding to unsubstantiated intelligence from North Africa about plans for a terrorist attack in Miami this week -- the second area-specific threat in the past couple of weeks -- police have boosted patrols to ''orange alert'' levels.") (September 17, 2003) (Read More...)
HAGANAH.US: "ANSAR AL ISLAM IN THE U.S. New Terrorist Concern in U.S. (Lisa Myers -NBC NEWS)" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The web sites of Ansar Al Islam: al-ansar.biz, al-ansar.net, ayobi.com, cihad.net")
six "Americans" and two "British" were taken in their attacks on coalition forces.
I have seen headlines, but not much information on this.
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