Politics > Politics-USA > "My fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended." 11.15.2003 #2
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"Tom Jefferson" |
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15 Nov 2003 11:47:00 AM |
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"My fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended." 11.15.2003 #2 |
President Bush proclaimed aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on
May 1, 2003:
Admiral Kelly, Captain Card (ph), officers and sailors of the USS Abraham
Lincoln, my fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In
the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.
http://www.milparts.net/bush-on-uss-lincoln.html
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4 Americans killed in Iraq attacks
Council told plan to transfer power
By Christine Spolar
Published November 15, 2003
BAGHDAD -- As U.S. forces intensified their campaign against a determined
Iraqi insurgency and killed seven suspected rebel fighters, an American
contractor and three U.S. soldiers died in separate roadside assaults,
military officials said Friday.
Faced with increasing attacks by insurgents, the Bush administration told
leaders of Iraq's Governing Council that it plans to speed up the transfer
of sovereignty to a provisional government selected by delegates chosen in
town hall meetings, officials with the U.S.-appointed council said.
The provisional government, to be selected by the summer, would oversee
writing a constitution and convening elections for a new government,
according to U.S. news reports.
In an attack Friday, a 1st Armored Division soldier was killed and two
others were wounded by a roadside bomb in central Baghdad, the military
said. A civilian contractor was killed Thursday, and a second was injured
near Balad, 45 miles north of Baghdad, when gunmen attacked a convoy, the
military said.
In a separate incident Thursday, two American soldiers were killed and three
others wounded when a bomb was detonated as their convoy passed near
Samarra, according to a military statement. Samarra and Balad are in the
so-called Sunni Triangle, an area north and west of Baghdad where support
for toppled leader Saddam Hussein still runs high and the risks are great
for coalition soldiers.
The U.S. military announced this week that it would more aggressively pursue
insurgents, in response to the surge in assaults.
President Bush on Friday, responding to concerns from members of Congress,
emphasized the United States would stay in Iraq "until the job is done."
Fears have been raised that the Bush administration, concerned about
election-year consequences of the war in Iraq, may abandon its
responsibilities there. But the president on Friday dismissed the notion
that U.S. forces would leave Iraq before security and stability are
achieved.
"Look, we will stay until the job is done, and the job is for Iraq to be
free and peaceful. A free and peaceful Iraq will have historic
consequences," Bush said in Washington.
The U.S. military forged ahead Thursday and Friday in an attempt to quell
deadly resistance. Troops aboard an Apache attack helicopter Thursday night
spotted what they thought was a rocket position aimed at an American base in
the Tikrit area and opened fire, a military spokesman said. Seven men were
killed and a patrol later located hundreds of rockets near the site, a
military spokesman said.
In a separate operation early Friday, U.S. forces raided four houses in
Tikrit and seized four men suspected of being involved in two attacks on
American military helicopters in recent weeks.
The attacks--on a Chinook helicopter that left 16 soldiers dead and on a
Black Hawk helicopter that killed six soldiers--were some of the most
devastating blows to American troops since the fall of Baghdad in April.
Lt. Col. Steve Russell, a commander in the 4th Infantry Division, said the
raid was a success.
"We were looking for four specific individuals, and we found all four,"
Russell told the Reuters news agency.
Along the Syrian border, U.S. Air Force jets dropped two satellite-guided
bombs Thursday night on a three-story building in Husayba that officials
from the 82nd Airborne said was used by insurgents to store ammunition and
launch attacks.
In another attack in Iraq, gunmen fired on jeeps Friday carrying Portuguese
journalists in southern Iraq. One reporter was wounded and another was
abducted, Portuguese media reported.
The six journalists were traveling in three jeeps from the Kuwaiti border to
Basra when they came under attack, Lisbon-based radio TSF reported. They had
no military escort.
The kidnapped radio reporter, Carlos Raleiras of TSF, phoned the Portuguese
state television network RTP on his mobile phone and pleaded for help.
"My situation is very delicate as you can imagine," Raleiras told state
television. "Would anyone who speaks Arabic please contact me? I have to
stop talking now, OK?"
He said he was not harmed but was unable to communicate with his captors
because he does not speak Arabic.
Portugal has appealed to U.S. and British authorities for help in the search
for Raleiras. The Portuguese TV network SIC reported that the kidnappers
were demanding $50,000 ransom for the reporter's release.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0311150154nov15,1,5132464
..story?coll=chi-news-hed
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