August 2004 - Iraq Special Weapons News

15 August 2004 - Iraq Special Weapons News

Identifies Marine Casualty
DoD Identifies Army Casualty
Blast Kills Soldier in Northern Baghdad AFPS 15 Aug 2004 -- A Task Force Baghdad soldier was killed today in an improvised explosive attack, military officials in Baghdad reported.
Fighting In Al-Najaf As Baghdad Conference Opens RFE/RL 15 Aug 2004 -- Iraqi provincial leaders have opened a national conference in Baghdad on the future of their country. But as the three-day event was getting under way, there were reports of fresh violence in Al-Najaf and in Baghdad.

MWSS-374 completes OIF mission, returning to Twentynine PalmsMarine Corps News 15 Aug 2004 -- After months of building runways, refueling aircraft, detonating Improvised Explosive Devices, and convoying tens of thousands of miles in Iraq's Al Anbar province, the Marines of Marine Wing Support Squadron 374, Marine Wing Support Group 37, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, are going home.

U-S / IRAQ VOA 15 Aug 2004 -- A prominent U.S. senator says a standoff with Shiite militants in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf must be brought to a prompt and decisive end.

IRAQ/CONFERENCE VOA 15 Aug 2004 -- More than a thousand delegates at a national conference in Iraq are meeting to choose their interim national assembly, as mortar bombs pound the area around the conference site. One landed at a nearby bus station Sunday, killing at least one person and wounding at least 17.

Iran 'suspicious' of Iraqi group`s demand for release of diplomat IRNA 15 Aug 2004 -- Tehran remained suspicious as an armed group, calling itself the Islamic Army of Iraq, threatened Sunday to `punish` a kidnapped Iranian diplomat.
Allawi pledges to follow up detention of Iranians in Iraq IRNA 15 Aug 2004 -- Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has promised to personally pursue the case of several Iranians who have recently gone missing in Iraq.

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