Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
09 May 2005 - Iraq Special Weapons News
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Current Operations
- OIF/OEF Casualty Update 09 May 2005 [PDF]
- TASK FORCE LIBERTY SOLDIER KILLED, ONE WOUNDED BY IED
- TWO U.S. SOLDIERS KILLED NEAR KHALIDIYAH
- THREE MARINES, ONE SAILOR KILLED IN HADITHAH
- TASK FORCE LIBERTY SOLDIER KILLED
- MARINE KILLED IN UBAYDI
- MARINE KILLED IN AL QAIM
- MARINE KILLED NEAR AL QAIM
- DoD Identifies Marine Casualties
- DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
- DoD Identifies Marine Casualties
- MARINE TEAM BEGINS COMBAT OPERATION IN AL ANBAR CENTCOM 09 May 2005 -- Marines, Sailors and Soldiers from Regimental Combat Team-2, 2nd Marine Division are conducting combat operations in northwestern Al Anbar province.
- US Forces Arrest Key Insurgents in Iraq VOA 09 May 2005 -- The U.S. military says it has arrested two key members of the Iraqi insurgency led by Abu Musab Zarqawi. And military officers say those two men, and other captured insurgents, are providing a wealth of information about the insurgency -- information that is being used in counter-insurgency operations, including a major offensive in northwestern Iraq.
- US Forces Launch Offensive in Western Iraq VOA 09 May 2005 -- U.S. forces have launched an offensive in Iraq's al-Anbar province, and report killing dozens of insurgents. Three U.S. Marines have also been killed in the area.
- Can you dig it? 2-14 Inf. hunts for weapons in Abu Ghraib MNF-I/MNC-I 09 May 2005 -- "Life is a garden: dig it," one Soldier says, quoting the movie Joe Dirt before he begins to move earth with a rusted shovel.
- Marine team begins combat operation in Al Anbar MNF-I/MNC-I 09 May 2005 -- Marines, Sailors and Soldiers from Regimental Combat Team-2, 2nd Marine Division are conducting combat operations in northwestern Al Anbar province.
- 22nd MEU obtains operational control of its combat forces USMC News 09 May 2005 -- The 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) made its first major step in preparing for its upcoming deployment today when it obtained operational control of the units with which it is scheduled to deploy later this year.
- Sending out well trained ISF USMC News 09 May 2005 -- At the inception of the Iraqi Security Force, it was unclear what the future would hold for its service members.
- A Battery reaches out, touches insurgents USMC News 09 May 2005 -- They are not often seen, but they're definitely heard. In the late hours of the night or in the early morning, the thundering blasts shake the ground, which can be felt across the camp here and causes many service members to ask, "Was that incoming or outgoing?"
- Bengals continue fight in Iraqi skies USMC News 09 May 2005 -- The Fighting Bengals of Marine All Weather Fighter Attack Squadron 224 have achieved a milestone by logging more than 3,000 combat flight hours and 1,400 combat sorties in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
- 3/8 Weapons Company nets possible insurgent USMC News 09 May 2005 -- Lance Cpl. Joshua B. Johnson and fellow Marines with 2nd platoon, Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment detained a possible insurgent, April 24.
- RFA Diligence Supports Iraqi Navy Navy NewsStand 09 May 2005 -- Sailors and Marines from the United States, Great Britain, Poland and Australia worked with civilian mariners to convert Royal Fleet Auxiliary Ship (RFA) Diligence into a forward-deployed base for Iraqi patrol craft April 20.
Deployments
US Policy
United Nations
Reconstruction Issues
- Iraq: Parliament Approves Key Cabinet Posts, But Gaps Remain RFE/RL 09 May 2005 -- Iraq's parliament has approved nominees for the key oil- and defense-ministers' posts -- but moments after the vote a Sunni Arab withdrew from consideration for the post of human-rights minister, saying his selection was based only on sectarian considerations. Meanwhile, violence in the country continued today as at least four people were killed in a Baghdad car bombing.
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