September 2006 - Iraq Special Weapons News

05 September 2006 - Iraq Special Weapons News

CENTAF releases airpower summaries for Sept. 3-5 AFPN 05 Sep 2006 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials have released the airpower summaries for Sept. 3 to 5.
Radar approach controllers stay flexible AFPN 05 Sep 2006 -- Working transportable radar approach control, or TRAPCON, at Balad Air Base, Iraq, is like a world-class chess tournament. But instead of 32 pieces on an 8-by-8 board, there are hundreds
Iraqi, U.S. Forces Detain Insurgents, Other Suspects AFPS 05 Sep 2006 -- Iraqi police and soldiers, along with U.S. Marines and soldiers from Regimental Combat Team 7, detained 30 confirmed insurgents and 38 suspected insurgents over the weekend throughout the Anbar province in western Iraq.

Iraqi President Says British Troops May Leave by End of 2007 VOA 05 Sep 2006 -- Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has predicted that British troops will be able to leave Iraq at the end of next year.

President Discusses Global War on Terror The White House 05 Sep 2006
Bush: Terrorists View Iraq as Lynchpin in Global Battle AFPS 05 Sep 2006 -- An early U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq would play into terrorists’ plans of establishing a new world order of radical Islam, President Bush told members of a military officers’ group here today.

DEMOCRATS—JOINED BY GENERAL WESLEY CLARK—RELEASE NEW REPORT ON BUSH NATIONAL SECURITY FAILURES Office of Sen. Reid 05 Sep 2006 -- With President Bush touring the country on a new public relations campaign designed to sell his national security policies to the American people, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, Assistant Democratic Leader Dick Durbin, House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, and Senator Thomas Carper today joined General Wesley Clark and Sharon Burke, Director of the Third Way National Security Project to release "the Neo Con," a new report analyzing the dangerous effects Republican policies have had on the security of the nation.
Third Way Releases New National Security Report with Clark, Reid, Other Senior Congressional Leaders Third Way 05 Sep 2006 -- Third Way today issued a new report analyzing the Bush administration’s record on national security.

Rahmati: Iran to invest dlrs one billion in Iraq's projects IRNA 05 Sep 2006 -- Visiting Iraqi Agriculture Minister and Acting Minister of Roads and Transportation Yuarib Nadhim al-Abudi conferred here Tuesday with Minister of Road and Transportation Mahmoud Rahmati on expansion of mutual cooperation between Iran and Iraq.