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View from the gunners site in a Bradley Fighting Vehicle as 1st Platoon, Apache Troop, 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division entering Fallujah. US marines barged house-by-house through Fallujah finding anything from corpses and weapons to hostages as they battled to secure the rebel enclave after seizing almost total control.(AFP/US Army/Johancharles Van Boers)

BAGHDAD, Iraq Sept. 25, 2004 — Gunmen opened fire on a vehicle carrying Iraqi National Guard applicants in Baghdad on Saturday, killing six people, police said. The group had just left a national guard recruiting center where they had signed up to join the force in the west Baghdad neighborhood of Al-Jamiyah when the attack occurred, said police Lt. Omar Ahmed. On Wednesday, a suicide attacker detonated a car bomb outside a photocopy shop in Al-Jamiyah where national guard applicants were readying their papers before heading to the recruiting center. At least six people died and 54 were wounded. Militants...

Graduation Ceremony Brig. Gen. Abdul Qadr, deputy chief of staff, operations, Iraqi Joint Headquarters presents a certificate of completion to an Iraqi National Guard recruit during a graduation ceremony Sept. 16 in Tikrit, Iraq. A class of 358 recruits went through a three-week course focused on basic soldiering skills such as rifle marksmanship, map reading, drill and ceremony and first aid. Multinational Security Transition Command-Iraq photo by U.S. Navy Chief Journalist Joe Kane   opfopfopfopfopfopfopfopfopfo   Iraqi National Guard Graduates New Round of Recruits358 Troops Complete Training Developed by 1st Infantry Division By U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Joe Kane...

IRAQI NATIONAL GUARD COMPOUND MAHMUDIYAH, Iraq (July 20, 2004) -- The quick reaction of two Iraqi National Guard soldiers cost them their own lives, but saved those of 250 recently. "The people who did this are against the advancement of Iraq. They are only trying to start violence and cause a nuisance," said Sgt. Ali Al-Hamdani, a spokesman for the Mahmudiyah ING. "These soldiers were very good at their duties. Their sacrifice is necessary for the security of Iraq." More than 250 Iraqi men had gathered outside the front gates of the compound here during the morning of July 17....

BAGHDAD -- For the olive-green pickup truck, it was just one small stretch of road. For the half-dozen Iraqi men and one woman seated inside the cabin and flatbed, it was one giant leap.     For the first time since the announcement of sovereignty, the squad of young soldiers of the new Iraqi National Guard ventured out onto the streets without a U.S. Army escort.     The mission one recent day: Escort a busload of young recruits from the Muthana Airport base to Camp Sara, another base on the other side of town.      A giant Iraqi flag waved from their vehicle....

Iraqi National Guardsmen aim their rifles at a convoy of oil tanker trucks, after chasing them down on a highway south of Basra, Iraq (news - web sites) Saturday, July 17, 2004. The soldiers said that the tanker trucks were trying to smuggle the oil to a private dock, where it was to be loaded onto boats and smuggled out of the country. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani) Iraqi National Guardsmen secure an area where 15 oil tankers were seized from smugglers near Basra, 550km south of Baghdad July 17, 2004. Earlier today, a car bomb in Mahmudiya, just south of Baghdad,...

BAGHDAD (AP)--An explosion rocked an Iraqi National Guard headquarters in a city south of the capital on Saturday, witnesses said. There were reports of casualties. Ambulances raced to the scene and police cordoned off the area in Mahmudiyah, 20 miles south of Baghdad. Further details were not immediately available.

BROWN: We often say on the program that every story can be framed in many ways, depending on the lens it is seen through. It's the job of reporters to look through many lenses as they can to tell each story to capture the most complete picture.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Shemaa Abdul-Ghani's Iraqi National Guard unit conducted its first raid Saturday, giving her a chance to use her combat skills for the first time. U.S. troops took a back seat during the raid, giving the Iraqis a chance to take control of their future under a sovereign flag. With an assault rifle slung across her chest and more than 100 rounds of extra ammunition, Abdul-Ghani was one of the first soldiers into a house where a suspected guerrilla lived. Her unit - D Company, 303rd Iraqi National Guard Battalion - was checking a report that a...

Iraqi Security Forces Open the First JCC in Northern IraqStory by Task Force OlympiaMOSUL, IRAQ – The Iraqi Security Forces in the Ninevah Province increased their ability to protect Iraqi citizens and to react to emergencies, when they opened the first Joint Coordination Center in northern Iraq June 23. All security operations will operate from the Mosul JCC where a representative from every security force element will be stationed to facilitate coordination. Representatives from the Iraqi National Guard, Iraqi Police, Facility Protection Services and Iraqi Armed Forces will be stationed at the JCC to efficiently fight crime and terrorism....