26 May 2005 - Iraq Special Weapons News |
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Current Operations
- OIF/OEF Casualty Update 26 May 2005 [PDF]
- DoD Identifies Army Casualty
- MARINE KILLED IN HADITHAH
- Transcript: DoD News Briefing - Operational Update 26 May 2005 -- Presenter: Lawrence Di Rita, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs and Army Brigadier General Carter Ham, Deputy Director Regional Operations, J-3
- Iraqi and Coalition Troops to Seal Baghdad VOA 26 May 2005 -- Iraqi security officials have promised to seal off the capital next week in an aggressive operation to root out insurgents and halt the wave of car bombs that has plagued the country during the past month.
- Operations Disrupt Enemy, Give Iraqi Forces Experience AFPS 26 May 2005 -- Current operations in Iraq are serving two important purposes, the Joint Staff's deputy director for regional operations said today during a Pentagon press briefing.
- U.S. Military Attempting To Verify Reports About Zarqawi Washington File 26 May 2005 -- Army Brigadier General Carter Hamm says the U.S. military has no independent corroboration that the Jordanian terrorist in Iraq linked to al-Qaida, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has been wounded or spirited out of the country.
- Child killed in exchange of fire MNF-I 26 May 2005 -- An Iraqi child was killed as terrorists and Multi-National Forces exchanged fire in northern Iraq May 26.
- Operation New Market continues in Al Anbar Province MNF-I 26 May 2005 -- Marines and Sailors from Regimental Combat Team -2 and members of the Iraqi Security Forces continue Operation New Market in and around the city of Haditha .
- U.S. and Iraqi Forces begin conducting operations around Haditha MNF-I 26 May 2005 -- Marines and Sailors from Regimental Combat Team - 2 and members of the Iraqi Security Forces are conducting operations in and around the city of Haditha .
- Task Force Liberty Soldiers find two caches MNF-I 26 May 2005 -- Task Force Liberty Soldiers found two munitions caches southwest of Bayji at about 11:50 a.m. May 26.
- Three detainees escape from Abu Ghraib MNF-I 26 May 2005 -- Three detainees escaped from the Abu Ghraib theater internment facility before sunrise on May 26.
- Stryker Brigade continues to pressure terrorists in northern Iraq MNF-I 26 May 2005 -- Multi-National Forces from 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team) detained one suspected terrorist and seized a cache during operations in northern Iraqi May 25.
- 14 terrorists arrested, Iraqi's turn in bomb-makers MNF-I 26 May 2005 -- At a forward operating base in southern Baghdad , two masked terrorists fired at a U.S. soldier manning a gate, then fled in a vehicle.
- Operations continue in Haditha MNF-I 26 May 2005 -- Marines and Sailors from Regimental Combat Team -2 and members of the Iraqi Security Forces continues operations in and around the city of Haditha May 26.
- Convoy Airmen protect supply lines AFPN 26 May 2005 -- More than 150 Airmen assigned to Det. 2632 provide convoy protection to civilian contractors and Army units delivering supplies throughout the area.
- CLB-8 Supply turns no one away USMC News 26 May 2005 -- The Supply section of Combat Logistics Battalion 8, 2d Force Service Support Group (Forward) has become the "go to" Supply section, according to Sgt. Ross Eisenberg, supply administration chief.
Deployments
US Policy
- FIRST HOUSE VOTE ON EXITING FROM IRAQ WAR Council for a Liveable World 26 May 2005 -- On May 25, 2005, the House of Representatives voted on an amendment that has launched the debate in Congress over the American presence in Iraq.
- England waives second Article 32 Army News 26 May 2005 -- Pfc. Lynndie England, the ninth Soldier accused of abusing prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison, Iraq, agreed to waive her right to a new Article 32 hearing May 24 at the Lawrence H. Williams Judicial Center, here.
United Nations
Reconstruction Issues
- Iraq Humanitarian and Reconstruction Assistance Updates USAID 26 May 2005 [PDF]
- Iraq Unveils Massive Security Plan RFE/RL 26 May 2005 -- Iraq's interior and defense ministers announced at a 26 May press briefing in Baghdad that they will launch a massive security operation in Baghdad in an effort to capture terrorists operating ther
Foreign Reactions
- IRAQ: 'UNPRECEDENTED RISE IN ATTACKS' MEANS 'STABILITY IS STILL A MIRAGE' US Dept. of State IIP, Foreign Media Reaction 26 May 2005
