Free Republic

WASHINGTON, March 23, 2008 – Coalition forces in Iraq killed 12 terrorists today during an operation east of Baqouba targeting members of a suicide bombing network, military officials said. The ground force was attacked with small-arms fire as it approached the targeted building. Responding to the hostile threat, coalition forces engaged five armed men, killing them, officials said. The ground forces ordered the occupants to come out of the building. Some complied with the order, but others remained inside, according to officials. Coalition forces entered the building and were fired upon by several armed men. Seven more terrorists were killed...

Bomber strikes Sunni-Shiite meeting By LAUREN FRAYER, Associated Press Writer BAQOUBA, Iraq - A suicide bomber struck a U.S.-promoted reconciliation meeting of Shiite and Sunni tribal sheiks as they were washing their hands or sipping tea Monday, killing at least 15 people, including the city's police chief, and wounding about 30 others. Two U.S. soldiers were also wounded in the 8:30 p.m. blast at a Shiite mosque in Baqouba, a former al-Qaida in Iraq stronghold about 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, according to U.S. and Iraqi officials, who gave the overall casualty toll. The brazen attack, which bore the hallmarks...

Blast kills Jersey Shore GI Friday, August 10, 2007 By SHRUTI L. MATHUR [Manahawkin, NJ] -- When it came to a post-high school career decision, there was nothing Kareem R. Khan wanted to do other than join the Army. Spurred by the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, Khan, a 2005 graduate of Southern Regional High School, wanted to show that not all Muslims were fanatics and that many, like him, were willing to lay their lives down for their country, America. He enlisted immediately after graduation and was sent to Iraq in July 2006. So when his...

‘Arrowhead Ripper’ continues to deny terrorists resources Monday, 09 July 2007 Multi-National Corps – Iraq Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory APO AE 09342 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE RELEASE No. 20070709-07 July 9, 2007 ‘Arrowhead Ripper’ continues to deny terrorists resources Multi-National Division – North PAO BAQOUBA, Iraq – Iraqi army and Coalition Force Soldiers from Task Force Lightning continued offensive operations in and around the capital of Diyala province, Iraq, as Operation Arrowhead Ripper continued to deny resources to al-Qaida terrorists during its twentieth day in the area. Soldiers from 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, and 3rd Battalion, 1st Brigade, 5th...

<p>Your thought, picture, analysis, and corrections are appreciated by all FReepers.</p> <p>Will these pictures be on the MSM tonight, positively showing the Surge?</p>

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The mayor of Baqouba and 1,500 police officers in Diyala province have been fired in a bid to end the raging violence in that region northeast of Baghdad, the provincial police chief said Sunday. Ghanim al-Qureyshi, who took command of police operations in the violent province after his predecessor was sacked last month, said Mayor Khalid Al-Senjeri, a Sunni Muslim, was dismissed over suspicions he was collaborating with Sunni Arab insurgents. Last week, the mayor was reported kidnapped by insurgents who blew up his office and stole several new police vehicles in Baquoba, the provincial capital. He...

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Coalition forces detained a senior al-Qaida in Iraq network member and three suspected terrorists during coordinated raids southwest of Baqouba June 19. The terrorist is reportedly a senior al-Qaida cell leader throughout central Iraq , north of Baghdad . He's known to be involved in facilitating foreign terrorists throughout central Iraq , and is suspected of having ties to previous attacks on Coalition and Iraqi forces. Coalition forces secured multiple buildings and detained the known terrorist plus three suspected terrorists without incident. Troops found an AK-47 with several magazines of ammunition and destroyed them all on site....

BAGHDAD, June 13 (KUNA) -- Seven gunmen were arrested Sunday evening by American troops in Baqouba in northeastern Baghdad following a shootout A Multi-National Forces' statement issued Monday said that soldiers of the American freedom mission forces arrested seven armed men in Baqouba, Diyala province's biggest city.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Iraqi forces captured the leader of an al-Qaida-affiliated terrorist cell allegedly responsible for carrying out a string of beheadings in Iraq, the government said, and 30 people were killed in a string of bloody attacks, among them three American soldiers. The government identified the captured cell leader as Mohamed Najam Ibrahim. It said he was arrested in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, but gave no date for the arrest. Officials said Ibrahim's operation was linked to Jordanian-born terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who leads a shadowy insurgency affiliated with Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network. Ibrahim...

WASHINGTON - All of America should join me in mourning the death Monday of Sgt. 1st Class David J. Salie. Sgt. Salie was killed on Valentine's Day on a mean street in the Iraqi city of Baqouba, and I'm grieving the loss of my friend along with his wife, Deanna, and their three children. I met David Salie in 1995 in the town of Mirabalais in Haiti. He was a tall, lanky, three-stripe buck sergeant. His battalion had been sent up from Port au Prince, the capital, to do some patrolling with the Special Forces A Team that I was...

Suicide car bombs struck Iraqi police and Kurdish militiamen in Baghdad and northern Iraq on Saturday, killing at least 16 people and wounding dozens, while four U.S. soldiers died in separate attacks, again demonstrating the lethal reach of Iraq's insurgency just weeks ahead of crucial elections. The U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. John Abizaid, acknowledged that the country's homegrown forces aren't yet up to the task of ensuring secure elections, requiring the planned increase in U.S. troops. More than 42 Iraqis have been killed in the last two days alone. But U.N. special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi criticized the military's hardline...

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Explosions and gunfire broke out Monday in the city of Baqouba and elsewhere in the "Sunni Triangle" as U.S. and Iraqi forces moved against the last remaining pockets of resistance in Fallujah. U.S. and Iraqi troops and insurgents clashed in a belt running across central and northern Iraq. At least 27 people were killed Monday in Baqouba, neighboring Buhriz and Suwayrah, south of Baghdad. Fighting was also reported in the ethnically mixed northern city of Mosul, Iraq's third-largest, and the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Ramadi, west of Fallujah. [snip] Outside Fallujah, a convoy of ambulances and relief...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide attack and roadside bombings killed six American soldiers, and Iraq's prime minister warned residents of insurgent bastion Fallujah on Wednesday to hand over terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi or face military action. Al-Zarqawi's Tawhid and Jihad group has claimed responsibility for beheading several foreign hostages and for car bombings throughout the country, and a videotape posted Wednesday on an Islamic Web site showed militants linked to al-Zarqawi beheading two Iraqis they accused of being intelligence officers. The attacks, at a time when U.S. forces are putting pressure on insurgent strongholds in the Sunni heartland, occurred...

A SUICIDE attacker killed at least 30 people when he exploded a bomb-laden vehicle outside a central Baqouba police station today, a top police official said. The US military said 20 people had been killed. General Walid al-Azawi, chief of police in Diyala Province, said at least 30 people were killed in the suicide bomb attack outside the al-Najda police station in central Baqouba, 55km north-east of Baghdad. General Al-Azawi told The Associated Press that the suicide attacker drove his car into a crowd of people gathering outside the al-Najda police near concrete barriers to register for police jobs....

AP News Alert BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- A hospital official says that 15 Iraqis have been killed and at least 25 injured in a car bombing in Baqouba.

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 7/16/04 - Baghdad, Baqouba, Hilla, Samawa, Yazd, Tehran, Kabul, Mohmand tribal area BREAKING: Baghdad - American Heroes Practice and Receive Good will BREAKING: Baghdad - Thousands of Iraqis demand Saddam be executed BREAKING: Baghdad - Iraqi security forces killed 15 terrorists and arrest nine more BREAKING: Baqouba - Islamic AntiChristian Hate Crime and Terror BREAKING: Mohmand tribal area also from Hilla, Samawa, Yazd - the Zoroastrian temple, and Kabul - Women and children liberated by the USA QFN ==== QUAGMIRE-FREE NEWS Exclusive to FReerepublic PICTURES YOU MAY NEVER SEE IN THE MAINSTREAM...

Insurgents Attack Shiite Office in Iraq Saturday, June 26, 2004 BAQOUBA, Iraq — Insurgents attacked two political party offices and a government building Saturday, killing three people and wounding two, the latest in an upsurge in violence just days before Iraq's interim government takes power. Also Saturday, a car bombing wounded a Kurdish government official and killed one of his bodyguards in the northern city of Irbil (search), according to police and a spokesman for the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (search). Witnesses identified the wounded official as Mahmoud Mohammed, the Kurdistan Democratic Party's minister of culture. At least five of...

Insurgents launched coordinated attacks against police and government buildings across Sunni Muslim areas of Iraq Thursday, killing 66 Iraqis and three US soldiers less than a week before the handover of power. The Iraqi Health Ministry said 268 people were wounded in the attack, but that tally did not include American injured. The large number of attacks, mostly directed at Iraqi security services, was a clear sign of just how powerful the insurgency in Iraq remains - and could be the start of a new push to torpedo the June 30 transfer of sovereignty to an interim transitional government. Some...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Insurgents have staged simultaneous attacks on police stations across Iraq, killing at least a dozen Iraqi officers and three U.S. soldiers. Many casualties have also been reported in the wave of attacks which struck police stations in Baqubah, Mosul and Ramadi on Thursday morning, coalition officials say. At least two U.S. soldiers were killed in Baqubah after their patrol was ambushed. American forces responded by launching airstrikes on insurgent positions in the city north of the Iraqi capital.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Insurgents launched a series of apparently coordinated attacks Thursday across Sunni Muslim-dominated areas of Iraq, killing at least 21 people, including one U.S. soldier, police and hospital officials said. Attacks were unleashed at dawn on police stations in Ramadi and Baqouba, as well as in Mosul, where explosions occurred at police stations in at least three parts of the city. One of them could have been caused by a suicide bomber, a police officer said on condition of anonymity. The level of coordination in the attacks appeared unusual and could signal the beginning of a push...