May 2008 - Iraq Special Weapons News

15 May 2008 - Iraq Special Weapons News

May 14 airpower summary: C-17s master the globe AFPN 15 May 2008
Coalition Forces Kill Two, Detain 21 Terrorism Suspects AFPS 15 May 2008 -- Coalition forces killed two terrorism suspects and detained 21 others during operations across Iraq today.
U.S. General Cites Steady Progress in Baghdad, Basra, Mosul AFPS 15 May 2008 -- Iraqi and U.S. forces are making progress while performing counterinsurgency and reconstruction missions across Iraq, a senior U.S. military officer posted in Iraq said yesterday.
Airmen airdrop messages to Iraqi citizens AFPN 15 May 2008 -- nine-member 737th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron C-130 Hercules aircrew took off from a Southwest Asian air base and airdropped several hundred thousand leaflets to Iraqi citizens on the ground recently.
Commander Charts Progress in Baghdad, Diyala AFPS 15 May 2008 -- A mix of force, good governance and economic stimuli has resulted in a turnaround for an area in Iraq that once was a hotbed of Sunni and Shiite insurgents.

McCain Predicts Iraq War Won by 2013 if He's Elected President VOA 15 May 2008 -- Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain says if elected, the United States will have won the war in Iraq by the end of his first term, in 2013.

US House of Representatives Defeats Iraq Funding Measure, Approves Others VOA 15 May 2008 -- Majority Democrats in the House of Representatives suffered a defeat Thursday, in a vote rejecting a portion of legislation to provide money requested by President Bush for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan into next year

More Pressure Needed to Curtail Iran’s Destabilizing Activities AFPS 15 May 2008 -- A preview offered to Iran of details in a yet-to-be-released Multinational Force Iraq report about its meddling in Iraq appears to have had no effect, Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell said today. However, that may change when the report goes public, he added.

Iraqi air force performs medical evacuation AFPN 15 May 2008 -- May 14 marked another significant event when members of the Iraqi air force flew its first medical evacuation mission since the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom.