March 2005 - Iraq Special Weapons News

28 March 2005 - Iraq Special Weapons News

OIF/OEF Casualty Update 28 Mar 2005 [PDF]
DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
DoD Identifies Army Casualty
Insurgents Attack Police In Baghdad RFE/RL 28 Mar 2005 -- Insurgents attacked Iraqi security forces in Baghdad today, gunning down a neighborhood police chief and hitting a patrol with a roadside bomb.
Deployed Troops Getting Best Protection Available AFPS 28 Mar 2005 -- Senior enlisted leaders say they're confident all necessary measures are being taken to ensure servicemembers deployed throughout U.S. Central Command have the best protection possible.
Multi-National Forces detain key terrorists MNF-I/MNC-I 28 Mar 2005 -- Multi-National Forces from 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team), detained ten suspected terrorists during operations in northern Iraq March 27.
MQ-1 Predator crashes in Iraq AFPN 28 Mar 2005 -- An Air Force MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle crashed about 10 p.m. EST on March 26 in the vicinity of Balad, Iraq.
Iraqi Freedom deployments help Airmen understand war AFPN 28 Mar 2005 -- For Tech. Sgt. Aaron Otte and Staff Sgt. Ron Beard, both security forces Airmen assigned to the 416th Expeditionary Mission Support Squadron security forces flight and deployed here from Hill Air Force Base, Utah, supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom on past deployments is something they said they will never forget.

Truman Strike Group Heads Home, Vinson Strike Group Takes Watch Navy NewsStand 28 Mar 2005 -- The USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) Carrier Strike Group concluded operations in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and maritime security operations (MSO) March 19, after being relieved by the USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) Carrier Strike Group in the Persian Gulf.

Two Years in Iraq: Former Commander Reflects on Advance to Baghdad AFPS 28 Mar 2005 -- Iraq now as opposed to Iraq two years ago is like night and day, the former commander of one of the units that liberated Baghdad said here today.

Seeking political inclusiveness, UN envoy meets with Iraq's top Shiite cleric UN News Centre 28 Mar 2005 -- The senior United Nations envoy for Iraq has met with the country's top Shiite Muslim cleric as he begins his ninth week of intensive consultations to ensure that all elements of Iraqi society take part in writing a new constitution after Sunni Arabs largely stayed away from January's elections.

Engineers Work Together to Improve Iraq's Power Production AFPS 28 Mar 2005 -- As March draws to a close, temperatures in Iraq are on the rise. Getting more electricity on the national grid is of foremost concern as the summer months draw near.
IRAQ/PARLIAMENT VOA 28 Mar 2005 -- In Iraq, the 270 members of the recently elected parliament are gathering (eds: gathered) Tuesday to choose senior government leaders and get down to the business of running the country, two years after the fall of Saddam Hussein. Leaders want to form a government of national unity.

Iraqi Media Monitoring UNAMI 28 Mar 2005
RFE/RL Iraq Report, Volume 8, Number 11 28 Mar 2005 -- MILITIAMEN PUSH THEIR VERSION OF ISLAM IN THE ABSENCE OF THE RULE OF LAW / RFE INTERVIEWS AL-BASRAH UNIVERSITY STUDENTS / RFI INTERVIEWS AL-BASRAH PARLIAMENTARIAN SALAM AL-MALIKI ABOUT AL-SADR-STUDENT DISPUTE / IRAQ-JORDAN DISPUTE PORTENDS ECONOMIC PROBLEMS FOR AMMAN