January 2007 - Iraq Special Weapons News

23 January 2007 - Iraq Special Weapons News

CENTAF releases airpower summary for Jan. 23 AFPN 23 Jan 2007 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials have released the airpower summary for Jan. 23.
100 Terrorists Killed, 50 Detained in Operation Turki Bowl AFPS 23 Jan 2007 -- U.S. and Iraqi forces killed 100 terrorists, detained 50, and dismantled a large terrorist group in January during Operation Turki Bowl, the senior U.S. Army officer in Iraq’s Diyala province said yesterday.
16 Insurgents Killed in Iraq, 18 Detained; Weapons Caches Found AFPS 23 Jan 2007 -- Coalition forces killed 16 terrorists and detained 18 others in Iraq this week, military officials said, and troops discovered multiple weapons caches.
Stryker Force ready, on call for Iraq MNF-I 23 Jan 2007 -- Strike hard! Strike fast! This could be the motto for the Stryker Readiness Force–Iraq, whose mission is to respond to threats across the battlefield of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Mine Countermeasure Ship Arrives in Bahrain Navy NewsStand 23 Jan 2007 -- USS Gladiator (MCM 11), an Avenger-class mine countermeasure ship, arrived in Bahrain Jan. 23.

Transcript: President Bush Delivers State of the Union Address The White House 23 Jan 2007
Democratic Response of Senator Jim Webb To the President’s State of the Union Address Office of Sen. Webb 23 Jan 2007
Bush Urges Congress to Support Victory Strategy in Iraq AFPS 23 Jan 2007 -- Citing freedom’s progress in the Middle East, the ambitions of a thinking and determined enemy and the consequences of failure in Iraq, President Bush tonight urged Congress in his State of the Union Address to support a strategy of victory in Iraq.
Bush Warns Failure in Iraq Would Be “Grievous and Far Reaching” Washington File 23 Jan 2007 -- There is still time for the United States to help to shape the outcome of the conflict in Iraq, President Bush said, adding that allowing extremists to seize control of the country would be tantamount to ignoring the lessons of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks upon New York and Washington.

The Iraq Debate: In Search of a New Direction VOA 23 Jan 2007 -- U.S. lawmakers continue to examine military, political and diplomatic options in Iraq.

Baghdad Security Tops U.S. Agenda, General Petraeus Tells Senators Washington File 23 Jan 2007 -- President Bush's new strategic direction in Iraq -- involving the deployment of additional U.S. Army and Marine brigades aimed, in part, at securing Baghdad -- is now the best plan for stopping that troubled nation's slide into sectarian chaos, Lieutenant General David Petraeus told senators January 23.
US Lawmaker Says Iraq Troop Surge Hurts Military Response Capabilities VOA 23 Jan 2007 -- The chairman of a key U.S. House committee says President Bush's plan to deploy 21,500 additional troops to Iraq is unacceptable because it would hurt the U.S. military's ability to respond to other crises around the world

Petraeus Supports Troop Increase in Confirmation Hearing AFPS 23 Jan 2007 -- President Bush’s pick for command of Multinational Force Iraq today supported the new strategy for Iraq, emphasizing that additional U.S. forces are essential in accomplishing the mission there.
New Iraq Commander: Mission 'Hard, Not Hopeless' VOA 23 Jan 2007 -- The U.S. Army general named by President Bush as the new coalition commander in Iraq told a Senate committee Tuesday he believes the new Baghdad security plan can work, but it will not be easy
US President Faces New Pressures From Congress on Iraq VOA 23 Jan 2007 -- On the eve of his State of the Union Address, President Bush faces new resistance and other pressures from Congress to his plan to send more than 21,000 additional troops to Iraq

As violence surges, UN envoy calls on Iraqis to pull back from ‘abyss of sectarianism’ UN News Centre 23 Jan 2007 -- The top United Nations envoy to Iraq today called on its political and religious leaders to do all in their power to “save the country from sliding further into the abyss of sectarianism” after yesterday’s bombings in Baghdad which killed or injured more than 200 innocent civilians.
UN Envoy Says Iraq Slipping into Sectarianism VOA 23 Jan 2007 -- A top U.N. envoy says Iraq is sliding into what he calls the "abyss of sectarianism" and he is urging Iraqi leaders to do more to stop the violence