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[The Long War Journal] Iraq strengthens the Counter Terrorism Bureau: The types of helicopters under review indicate that a potential MoI Special Operations Squadron is intended. This indicates that the MoI is planning to form a mirror brigade to the ISOF's 1st Special Operations Brigade based on the National Police ERU, probably one or two of the Baghdad based provincial ERUs, and the MoI Aviation Squadron.

 [Jihad Watch] McCain, Obama, and Jihad: We have done what we can do in Iraq, and if the Iraqis turn on us it will not be because Israel, protecting themselves and, not incidentally, protecting the entire Infidel world too, sets back for a decade Iran's nuclear project, but because of other, deeply-held beliefs that we have for too long ignored. Those who think we should allow our closest ally, Israel, that prevented Saddam Hussein from building a nuclear weapon when it bombed Osirak, that prevented, just a few months ago, the Syrians from installing a North Korean nuclear installation that potentially could threaten not only Israel but a wide swath of territory, including Lebanon and Turkey, and parts of southnern Europoe, should understand that what happens in Iraq and Afghanistan are far less important, at this point, than what happens in Iran, and whether or not the Islamic Republic of Iran is permitted to obtain nuclear weaopns.

 [Peace Like A River] Cables, dispatches and memoranda: The redeployment process following Operation Desert Storm in 1991, a much shorter war, lasted at least 14 months. USMC - HIT, Iraq ”” Marines with Company L, 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 5 conducted a patrol .

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[My Weblog] Packing for Iraq: His photo story ”˜One ride with Yankee Papa 13’ published in Life Magazine in 1965 put a face on the war raging in Vietnam. Burrows focused on Lance Corporal James C.

[Left News and Views] Looking Back At Five Years Of Bush’s Wreckage In Iraq: Its entire collection of 5,800 cylinder seals and clay tablets, many containing cuneiform writing and other inscriptions some of which go back to the earliest discoveries of writing itself, was stolen.[9] Since then, as a result of an amnesty for looters, about 4,000 of the artifacts have been recovered in Iraq, and over 1,000 have been confiscated in the United States.[10] Curtis noted that random checks of Western soldiers leaving Iraq had led to the discovery of several in illegal possession of ancient objects. Customs agents in the U.S. then found more.

 [Marine Corps Community for USMC Veterans] 9-11: No matter where they were, they will always remember: 11, 2001, when nearly 3,000 people died in New York City, in Arlington, Va., and outside of Shanksville, Pa. Memories from that day are private yet universal.

 [Michael Moore - This Just In] Marchers urge Republicans to halt Iraq war: "We joined up with an altruistic vision of promoting freedom and justice around the world," said Vince Emanuel, a Marine lance corporal who did a tour of duty in Iraq from August 2004 to April 2005, explaining why he was marching.

 [Marine Corps Community for USMC Veterans] Veterans coping with war experiences turn to writing: Dan Dreger, 61, a squad leader who served with Salinas in Vietnam, said the book is a day-to-day chronicle in the life of a small, front-line unit where periods of boredom are broken up by going on patrol, setting up ambushes, hunting the enemy in search-and-destroy missions and interrogating prisoners.

 [SWJ Blog] 5 September SWJ Roundup: When we traveled around Basra recently escorted by Iraqi Army soldiers and a handful of coalition advisers, we glimpsed a model of post-American Iraq that he and Barack Obama would do well to consider. This world, defined principally by more capable Iraqi security forces taking the lead with coalition support and an increasingly confident Iraqi government, defies the simplistic “all in” or “all out” way that Iraq is debated in Washington.

 [El Campeador's Weblog] Anti-War Protest at GOP Convention Turns Violent. NO, please tell ...: Most of the violence occurred in pockets of a neighborhood near downtown, several blocks from the Xcel Energy Center, where the convention was taking place. At the request of police, 150 Minnesota National Guard soldiers helped control splinter groups near downtown long after anti-war marchers had dispersed.

 [SWJ Blog] 1 September SWJ Roundup: When the histories of the Iraq War are written - in contrast to the dispatches published in mediis rebus by critical journalists and born-again antiwar critics - expect to see a much different narrative from the conventional ignorance that became the gospel these last five years.

[The Hanscom Family Weblog] Why Am I Not Surprised?: U.S. commanders in Afghanistan have requested three more combat brigades, or about 10,000 more soldiers, to help cope with insurgent activity. Some 33,000 U.S. troops are already there including 14,000 who are part of a 53,000-strong NATO military command.

 [Dans Blog] Michael Gordon on Iraq and Shia dominance...: Moulton was looking to strengthen the team, but while a number of captains asked if they could join, Moulton had his eye on Alex Lemons, who served in his platoon on the march to Baghdad, had served three Iraq tours and lived in Salt Lake City. Lemons received his undergraduate degree from Westminster College in Utah, planning to get a doctorate in English literature and pursue a teaching career.

 [fly reels ebay] Great Prices On Hogs in the Shadows Combat Stories from Marine ...: These are the gripping, gut-wrenching true stories of those marines in Iraq whose sole purpose on the battlefield is to take out the enemy-one combatant at a time. Every time a HOG puts his eye to the glass, it means death for whoever is unlucky enough to end up in his crosshairs.

 [World Military History Blog] Ship’s History: USS Kearsarge (LHD 3): On January 12, 2003, with only 72 hours notice, KEARSARGE was deployed, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.  It was the ship’s fifth deployment.  Serving as the Flagship for Rear Admiral Nowakowski, Commander, Amphibious Task Force East, and Brigadier General Richard Natonski, Commanding General Second Marine Expeditionary Brigade (2D MEB) and Landing Force East, KEARSARGE carried more than 1,700 Marines from the 2D MEB to the Northern Arabian Gulf.  KEARSARGE later became the Flagship for Commodore Gregg Jackson, Commander Amphibious Squadron Eight.

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