May 2004 - Iraq Special Weapons News

29 May 2004 - Iraq Special Weapons News

STRYKER BRIGADE SOLDIER DIES FROM NON-HOSTILE INCIDENT
SOLDIER KILLED BY MORTAR ATTACK
THREE MARINES KILLED IN ACTION
Kufa Truce Disrupted for Second Day VOA News 29 May 2004 -- U.S. soldiers and Iraqi militiamen have clashed in the southern Iraqi city of Kufa, further eroding a fragile two-day old cease-fire.
Service Members Killed in Afghanistan, Iraq AFPS 29 May 2004 -- Three Marines were killed today in Iraq's Anbar province, and four U.S. service members were killed today in southern Afghanistan, U.S. Central Command officials announced in news releases.

Bush Says Forces of Freedom, Not Terror, Will Prevail in Iraq Washington File 29 May 2004 -- The United States has a "strategy to defeat our terrorist enemy, and a plan to help establish lasting freedom in Iraq," President Bush said May 29 in his weekly radio address to the nation.
BUSH/KERRY/IRAQ VOA 29 May 2004 -- President Bush says he has a strategy for restoring security and transferring political power in Iraq. His presumptive Democratic challenger, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, says the president has alienated long-time allies by acting on his own in Iraq.

IRAQ / ALLAWI REACT VOA 29 May 2004 -- In Iraq, the nomination of a former exile with close ties to the United States to become the country's interim prime minister, has met with with mixed reactions from Iraqis.

Report: Guantanamo Interrogators Played Major Role at Abu Ghraib VOA News 29 May 2004 -- A published report says interrogators from the U.S.- run detention camp at the Navy Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba were sent to Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison late last year to train American intelligence teams.