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December 24, 2005 Release A051224a Large cache destroyed near Bayji TIKRIT, Iraq – Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team thought they had discovered a single cache of weapons near Bayji Dec. 20 after a tip from a local resident. On Dec. 23, the Soldiers finished unearthing the last of the weapons from the eleventh cache at the site. “This place is basically an ammo supply point for the enemy,” said Capt. Matt Bartlett, commander of Company B, 1st Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment. “Any attack they wanted to do, whether an IED or small-arms, they could get...

Bad tippers and bitter waitressesBy Jack Kemp (not the politician) Nov. 26, 2005 Once, years ago, I heard a heard a lecture by a rabbi on dating. He advised that if your date treats a waiter/waitress or a busboy in a condescending and mean manner, that is the way they will treat you after a while – if you were to marry them. Today's New York Post had an article about cheap celebrity tippers listed on the website www.bitterwaitress.com. I went there to see how many well known political "champions of the little guy and gal" rated. I cross referenced the...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21, 2005 – Acting on tips from local residents, Iraqi soldiers confiscated a large number of terrorist weapons and bomb-making materials Nov. 20 in western Baghdad, military officials reported. Soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 1st Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, discovered the weapons cache during a follow-up search of an area where an improvised explosive device was discovered and destroyed last week. A small contingent of U.S. soldiers from D Company, 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, assisted during the search, officials said. The weapons were hidden in three vehicles in a parking lot. One vehicle appeared to be wired...

French Police Step Up Security After Tips Friday November 11, 2005 11:01 PM By ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press Writer PARIS (AP) - Authorities stepped up security Friday and placed restrictions on some public gatherings after tip-offs from Internet and text messages suggested ``violent actions'' over the weekend in the French capital. But as France marked Armistice Day commemorating the end of World War I, calls for peace in the restive poor neighborhoods of France rang out, from demonstrators in Paris to religious leaders at a Lyon-area mosque in the southeast. With a state of emergency in place, several hundred people...

Release A050919d TIKRIT, Iraq— An Iraqi citizen led Coalition Forces to four cache weapons sites southwest of Kirkuk around 6:15 p.m. Sept. 18. The man stopped a patrol and reported buried munitions in the area, and took the Coalition Forces to the area. The cache sites contained 4,000 37 mm air defense rounds. Explosives experts will detonate the munitions in place. -30- For more information, please contact the 42ND Infantry Division Public Affairs Office 42 ID PAO at fortysecond.id.pao@us.army.MIL.

Coalition Forces handing out toys BAQUBAH, Iraq – Soldiers from Task Force 1-10 handed out donated toys and stuffed animals August 31 to the children that live around the mayor’s office here. The soldiers and the children enjoyed the interaction with one another and the children left with smiles on their faces. Iraqi police basic marksmanship training FORWARD OPERATING BASE Normandy, Iraq – A group of 20 Iraqi police officers gathered to further hone their skills during an intense marksmanship class August 31. Coalition Forces stood by as seven Iraqi instructors trained the police with intense one on one personalized...

BAGHDAD – Tips from Iraqi citizens led to the discovery by U.S. Soldiers of a weapons cache Aug. 23. Soldiers of D Company, 172nd Infantry Regiment, Task Force 1-118th Field Artillery, 3rd Brigade heard small-arms fire near their position while conducting security operations north of Baghdad. The Soldiers moved toward the sound of the gunfire but found a deserted fighting position that contained two mortar rounds, 12 mortar fuses, and a 155-millimeter artillery shell. While the Soldiers searched the area, Iraqi civilians approached and said they knew where to find more weapons. The men of D Co. found two 203-millimeter...

BAGHDAD — Iraqi Army and Coalition Forces, working together and independently, took 19 suspected terrorists into custody while conducting a series of combat operations in and around Baghdad Aug. 21. Tips received from Iraqi citizens led to the detention of 12 of the 19 terror suspects. Thirteen of the suspects were captured during five pre-dawn raids carried out in west, central and south Baghdad. Iraqi Army and Task Force Baghdad Soldiers also seized a computer, two AK-47 assault rifles and improvised explosive device fuses during the raids. The largest operation of the day was carried out at noon by Iraqi...

WITHIN days of being installed as Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the conservative son of a blacksmith, has won the first round in the biggest confrontation with the West since the seizure of the US embassy a quarter of a century ago. He has called the bluff of the UN's nuclear watchdog and restarted Iran's nuclear fuel enrichment programme, receiving in return a mere slap on the wrist. Ahmadinejad is hailed by the poor as an Iranian Robin Hood because of the promises to distribute Iran's oil wealth that won him a landslide victory. But he combines this with appeals to...

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, July 28, 2005) – The Army Office of Information Assurance and Compliance is educating Soldiers about the importance of safe Internet practices in a new campaign utilizing cartoons. The cartoons will help Soldiers realize the necessity of computer security and responsibility and what precautions they should take by developing a message format that is quick and easy to view and understand, according to Col. Stephen Jurinko, OIA&C Director. “Soldiers don’t look at computers as something malicious,” said Ted Dmuchowski, the former Information Assurance and Compliance director. “It helps them do their job… and makes the day...

July 2, 2005Release Number: 05-07-01 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TROOPS FIND WEAPONS CACHE NEAR AR RAMADI CAMP BLUE DIAMOND, AR RAMADI, Iraq – Iraqi Security Forces from the 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade, 1st Division and Coalition forces from the 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, uncovered seven weapons caches, a car-bomb factory and a roadside bomb making factory late afternoon on June 30 in the Industrial area, northeast of the Saddam Mosque during a patrol to disrupt terrorist activity last night. This was the first patrol the Iraqi Soldiers conducted with Coalition forces in the area. The Iraqi Soldiers were tipped...

In the middle of the night, an Iraqi man leads U.S. troops to a weapons cache. FORWARD OPERATING BASE WARRIOR, Iraq, July 1, 2005 — Based on information from an Iraqi civilian, U.S. soldiers from B Company, 3rd Battalion, 116th Armor Regiment, Task Force Liberty discovered an unexploded ordnance cache in the Kirkuk Province June 29. “By far, this is the biggest weapons cache the 116th has found,” said U.S. Army 1st Lt. John Thew, B Company, 3rd Battalion 116th Brigade Armor Regiment. “We have found in one day, what usually takes four months.” “By far, this is the biggest...

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ISKANDARIYAH, Iraq - The tip came in fast, telegraph-terse, and discreet. Maj. Mohammed Salman Abass Ali al-Zobaidi of the Iraqi National Guard scrolled down to read it: "Black four-door Excalibur. Behind cinema." From cell phone screen to local authorities: Acting on the recent text message tip to the Iraqi National Guard commander, police in a nearby town tracked down a black car behind the theater, and arrested the driver for suspected links to insurgent attacks. In the volatile Shiite-Sunni towns south of Baghdad known as the "triangle of death," Iraqi civilians increasingly are letting their thumbs do the talking, via...

WASHINGTON -— Leads generated through a hotline to report insurgent activity in Iraq demonstrate that the Iraqi people want to bring an end to the violence against innocent civilians and critical infrastructure, a top officer in the Army's 1st Cavalry Division told reporters in Baghdad today. Brig. Gen. Jeffrey W. Hammond, the division's assistant commander for support, said the tips hotline received more than 400 calls during the past few months. These enabled the coalition to take prompt action — from freeing several women who had been kidnapped for ransom to identifying and destroying vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices Hammond said...

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In his resignation speech last week, Mr. Thompson said, "For the life of me, I cannot understand why the terrorists have not attacked our food supply because it is so easy to do," "Any terrorist madman wanting to contaminate our food supply just needs to click on over to www.hhhs.gov/foodcontaminationtips," Mr. Thompson said. But within hours of Mr. Thompson's speech, international terror mastermind Osama bin Laden issued a new tape complaining that he had tried to click on the food-contamination link and had been directed to a page reading "Under Construction."

November 25, 2004 Release Number: 04-11-86 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Soldiers, Iraqi Police nab suspect in raidTIKRIT, Iraq -- An Iraqi citizen provided information that helped Task Force Danger Soldiers and Iraqi Police capture one individual during a raid near Khanaqin at 2:40 p.m., Nov. 24. The Soldiers assisted Iraqi Police with the search of a residence where a man was detained and several weapons were found. The detainee was found with one RPK machine gun, 70 RPK rounds, six grenades, four anti-personnel mines, 30 rocket-propelled grenade propellants and two AK-47 magazines in his possession. The detainee and weapons were transported...

November 24, 2004 Release Number: 04-11-81 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LOCAL IRAQI BOY DIRECTS MULTI-NATIONAL FORCES TO AN IEDSAMARRA, Iraq -- A local boy directed Multi-National Forces to the location of an improvised explosive device near Samarra on November 22. MNF is educating the local populace about the dangers of IEDs and responsibilities to report discoveries. These efforts have resulted in increased assistance by the public in reporting IED discoveries and locations. While conducting a patrol in Samarra, Task Force 1-26 Infantry Soldiers distributed fliers to the local people. After distributing the flier for roughly ten minutes, a local boy told...

Kirkuk - Security forces were on Tuesday focussing their hunt for Iraq's most wanted man, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, on an area in north-central Iraq after receiving a tip-off, an Iraqi national guard officer said. "We received concrete information from very reliable sources that Zarqawi was transferred today (Tuesday) to Tuz Khormatu and is heading to Baquba," staff brigadier general Anwar Hamad Ameed, the national guard chief in the northern city of Kirkuk, told AFP. He gave no further details. Tuz Khormatu lies about 180km north of Baghdad. The US military believes Zarqawi, who has a $25m bounty on his head,...