10 July 2005 - Iraq Special Weapons News |
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- DoD Identifies Army Casualty
- Multiple Suicide Bombings in Iraq Kill Dozens VOA 10 Jul 2005 -- Iraq's interim prime minister promised to investigate how a suicide bomber was able to infiltrate a Baghdad army recruitment center, which extremists have targeted several times before. Sunday's bombing at the center killed at least 18 people and wounded more than 40.
- Iraq: Fresh Wave Of Suicide Bomb Attacks RFE/RL 10 Jul 2005 -- A relative lull in violence in Iraq during the past week was shattered today when a suicide bomber attacked an Iraqi Army recruiting center in western Baghdad -- killing at least 18 people and injured more than 40. Nine Iraqi Shi'ites from a single family in Baghdad also were killed in their home overnight.
- At Least 24 Killed In Iraq Suicide Bombings RFE/RL 10 Jul 2005 -- At least 24 people were killed and more than 50 wounded in three separate suicide bombings in Iraq today.
- Five Soldiers Hurt in IED Attack AFPS 10 Jul 2005 -- Five Task Force Baghdad soldiers were wounded when their patrol of six Humvees struck an improvised explosive device in the Baghdad's Rashid district today, officials reported.
- Task Force Liberty Soldier detain suspected mortar men MNF-I 10 Jul 2005 -- Task Force Liberty Soldiers conducted raid near Ad Duluiyah July 9 and detained four men suspected of firing mortars at coalition bases.
- Detained U.S. Citizen Released AFPS 10 Jul 2005 -- Coalition forces released Cyrus Kar, an Iranian-born U.S. citizen today, Multinational Force Iraq officials announced.
- U.S. Forces Release American Held In Iraq RFE/RL 10 Jul 2005 -- U.S. forces in Iraq have said they have freed an American citizen today whom they had been holding as a suspected insurgent.
- American released today MNF-I 10 Jul 2005 -- Coalition Forces released Cyrus Kar, an Iranian-born U.S. citizen, today.
- Operation Scimitar update MNF-I 10 Jul 2005 -- Iraqi Security Forces and Coalition Forces are continuing Operation Scimitar (Qmtia) in the Zaidon region, southeast of Fallujah.
- Task Force Baghdad Soldiers unearth weapons cache MNF-I 10 Jul 2005 -- A Task Force Baghdad unit uncovered a large weapons cache during cordon-and-search operations July 8 and 9 in north Baghdad.
- Combined operation nets large cache MNF-I 10 Jul 2005 -- Coalition and Iraqi forces conducting a joint operation discovered a large cache of mortar and artillery rounds July 9.
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- UN envoy to Iraq meets with Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani and Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr UN News Centre 10 Jul 2005 -- United Nations efforts in Iraq were the focus of separate meetings in Najaf today between the world body's top envoy to the country and the Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani as well as Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al- Sadr.
