August 2008 - Iraq Special Weapons News

22 August 2008 - Iraq Special Weapons News

Seabees Build Camp at Al Qaim Navy NewsStand 22 Aug 2008 -- Seabees of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 17 homeported at Fort Carson, Colo., recently finished construction of a camp at Al Qaim in western Iraq.
Troops Capture Suspected Hezbollah Associates in New Baghdad AFPS 22 Aug 2008 -- Coalition forces picked up two suspected associates of the Kataib Hezbollah criminal network during operations in Baghdad.
Route clearance: back to the basics USMC News 22 Aug 2008 -- Treading lightly with eyes wide open is an essential ability to have while marking and detonating minefield locations in Iraq.

U.S., Iraq Reportedly Agree On Provisional Troop Withdrawal Date RFE/RL 22 Aug 2008 -- Reports from Baghdad say Iraq and the United States have reached a tentative deal that sets a goal of withdrawing U.S. combat troops from the country's cities and towns by the end of June 2009 and from the country as a whole by the end of 2011.
Negotiators Say US Troops to Leave Iraq by 2011 VOA 22 Aug 2008 -- U.S. and Iraqi negotiators reported to have agreed on the complete withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq by 2011 - if conditions are right.