February 2010 - Iraq Special Weapons News

13 February 2010 - Iraq Special Weapons News

Training Iraqis to rain steel from above Army News 13 Feb 2010 -- As the U.S. military prepares to leave all of Iraq's security in the hands of Iraqi forces, the training the two forces have conducted has created a military capable of defending Iraq's sovereignty from any threat.
Engineers upgrade electrical system at key Iraqi agency Army News 13 Feb 2010 -- Sustainable electrical power in Iraq has been in short supply for generations. Even before the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, Iraqis only had electricity for two to four hours a day. And most Iraqi citizens just work around the outages, and carry on without electricity.
New oil service center opens at JBB Army News 13 Feb 2010 -- Officials with the Mayor's Cell and Shaykh Shehab Ahmed Al-Tmime celebrated the opening of the new oil service center with a ribbon cutting ceremony Feb. 8 at Joint Base Balad, Iraq.
Iraqi commands train to train others Army News 13 Feb 2010 -- Trained in advanced operations, close quarters marksmanship, information gathering and taking action against possible threats, Iraqi commandos have a wide array of skills to teach and guide other Iraqi Army units on how to function in combat.

Iraqi Appeals Court Confirms Ban of Dozens of Candidates as Political Tension Mounts VOA 13 Feb 2010 -- Former Iraqi prime minister Iyad Allawi, whose influential political bloc in parliament was expected to win major support in upcoming March elections, says that he is "suspending his campaign," in the wake of the decision to bar several top Sunni political figures for alleged ties to the Ba'ath Party of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

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