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10/27/04 WIS10: McEntire unit in NC heading to Iraq Wednesday
Members of the 1st battalion, 151st Aviation unit out of McEntire Air
National Guard Station were deployed to Fort Bragg, NC, in August. The
group ... is headed to do aerial surveillance for soldiers in Iraq.
10/27/04 CNEWS, Canada: Pettigrew: Iraq aid won't mean troops
Sun Media's Stephanie Rubec asked Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre
Pettigrew about Canada's diplomatic position on Iraq ...
10/27/04 News24.com: Lekota: 47 S Africans in Iraq
The South African Government says at least 47 South Africans were
being investigated for working in conflict-ridden Iraq without
permission and were contravening the Foreign Military Assistance Act,
says Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota.
10/27/04 DOD Identifies Marine Casualty
Cpl. Brian Oliveira, 22, of Raynham, Mass., died Oct. 25 from injuries
received from enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. Oliveira was
assigned to 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Reg., 1st Marine Div., I Marine
Exped. Force, Camp Pendleton, CA.
10/27/04 DOD: National Guard and Reserve Mobilized as of October 27,
2004
This week, the Army and Air Force announced an increase in the number
of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization
.... The net collective result is 2,332 more reservists mobilized than
last week.
10/27/04 Can. Press: Amnesty Int'l blasts U.S. policy toward prisoner
abuse
The U.S. war on terror has followed a two-faced strategy on prisoner
abuse, condemning it publicly while engaging in it behind closed
doors, Amnesty International said Wednesday.
10/27/04 AP: Reservists head to N.C. on way to Iraq
Marine reserve companies from Yakima, Wash., and Boise, Idaho, are
being mobilized and will be sent to Iraq after training at a North
Carolina base.
10/27/04 S&S: Unit renovates Hanau barracks to honor comrade wounded
in Iraq
From this day on, lower enlisted soldiers new to Company A, 127th
Aviation Support Battalion, will come to know all about Sgt. James
Lathan. Lathan deserves nothing less.
10/27/04 Middle East Online: US soldier killed in eastern Iraq
A US soldier was killed and another wounded in a suspected motorcycle
bombing on Wednesday in eastern Iraq ... Meanwhile, three Iraqis were
wounded by a car bomb along a road northeast of Baghdad ...
10/27/04 Middle East Online: Corruption, laziness grip Iraq's police
force
Iraq's police force is haunted by "ghosts" who receive money but never
come to work and slackers who make an appearance but are hopeless or
corrupt, officials have said.
10/27/04 Omaha World-Herald: Wounded Nebraska Marine has Senate
visitor
Lance Cpl. Marcus Martinez of Grand Island, Neb., who was seriously
wounded in a recent mortar attack in Iraq, got a special visitor to
his hospital bed Tuesday: Sen. Chuck Hagel.
10/27/04 NCTimes: Salazar first cameraman killed since Vietnam
When Marine Cpl. William Perkins dove on an enemy grenade to save his
buddies in Vietnam in 1967, he was the last Marine Corps combat
cameraman to be killed in action for almost four decades. That was
until almost two weeks ago ...
10/27/04 Middle East Online: Rumsfeld had no plans for Iraqi
insurgency
US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has implicitly admitted the
Pentagon had no specific plans for handling a widespread insurgency in
the aftermath of the US-led invasion of Iraq, but still insisted US
pre-war planning was "good."
10/27/04 MNF-Iraq: VBIED Attack Aimed at Civilian Traffic
Anti-Iraqi forces detonated a vehicle borne improvised explosive
device near Khalis at about 8:24 a.m. on Oct 27. After the explosion,
a First Infantry Division patrol cordoned off the area and found more
unexploded ordinance.
10/27/04 AP: Allawi Blames Ambush On Coalition
Iraq's interim prime minister blamed the U.S.-led coalition Tuesday
for "great negligence" in the ambush that killed about 50 soldiers
heading home after graduation from a U.S.-run training course
10/27/04 AP: Army Won't Shorten Combat Tours
The Army will not shorten combat tours in Iraq next year from 12
months to six or nine months, as some had hoped, because that would
undermine the war effort
10/27/04 AP: No Orders To Search For Explosives
One of the first U.S. military units to reach the Al-Qaqaa military
installation...did not have orders to search for the nearly 400 tons
of explosives that are missing from the site, the unit spokesman said
Tuesday
10/27/04 abc.net.au: Wounded soldier to return home
The Australian soldier who received serious facial wounds in a suicide
car bombing in Iraq will be returning to Australia
10/27/04 SyriaTimes : U.S. troops reinforce after Falluja air strike
U.S. troops stepped up pressure on the Iraqi city of Falluja on
Tuesday, cutting roads and reinforcing positions around the town as
jets criss-crossed the sky ahead of an expected assault.
10/27/04 mytelus: British forces on move to Baghdad
British troops began rolling north to the Baghdad area Wednesday
morning, a move that will free up American soldiers to tackle
militant-controlled areas
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