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• Iraq: One Task Force Olympia Soldier dies, one injured in roadside bomb attack

• Marines battle back enemy after ambush in Ar Ramadi United States Marine Corps 17 Jul 2004 -- Sgt. John S. Anthony, section leader with 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, said the city of Ar Ramadi was like a ghost town July 14, and that's never a good sign.
• MNF-Iraq: 10th Mountain Division Joins First Team CENTCOM 17 Jul 2004 -- Approximately 2,000 Soldiers from 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division out of Fort Drum, N.Y. recently convoyed from Kuwait to Baghdad. The 2-10th will serve with the 1st Cavalry Division for one year at Forward Operating Bases throughout Baghdad.
• MNF-Iraq: Combined forces detain four, foil IED attack CENTCOM 17 Jul 2004 -- Iraqi National Guardsmen and soldiers from the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team) detained four people wanted for anti-Iraq activities and Iraqi police thwarted a roadside bomb attack Thursday.
• MNF-Iraq: Combined forces detain six, foil two roadside bomb attacks CENTCOM 17 Jul 2004 -- Iraqi Security Forces and soldiers from 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team) detained six people wanted for anti-Iraqi activities and foiled two roadside bomb attacks Friday in Northern Iraq.
• IRAQ/BOMBING VOA 17 Jul 2004 -- Iraq's new justice minister escaped an assassination attempt Saturday, but at least four other people were killed in a bomb blast near his convoy. Insurgents have vowed to kill interim government leaders in Iraq, claiming they are collaborators with coalition forces.

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• Powell Defines Meaning of "Finishing the Job" in Iraq Washington File 17 Jul 2004 -- U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell says "finishing the job" in Iraq means having elections that produce a representative form of government, building up an Iraqi police force and border patrol, having an army and paramilitary forces that are confident they can handle the remaining security challenges, and giving Iraqis the full responsibility for their own security that would allow U.S.-led coalition forces to go home.

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Foreign Reactions

• Pakistan may consider `volunteers` for Iraq, says minister IRNA 17 Jul 2004 -- Pakistan could think over sending some `volunteers` to Iraq for the protection of United Nations installations, however there is no such decision as yet, Information Minister Shaikh Rashid Ahmad said on Saturday.

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