Operation Long Hard Slog....9/20/05

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09/20/05 kimatv: Yakima Army medic dies
Larry Morrison was a U.S. Army medic... was one of four killed in roadside bombings in western Iraq on Monday. He had already served 16 years, but was called out in June to serve. his skills as a medic making him extremely valuable.

09/20/05 DoD Identifies Army Casualties
1st Sgt. Alan N. Gifford, 39, of Tallahassee, Fla. and Spc. David H. Ford IV, 20, of Ironton, Ohio, died in Baghdad, Iraq, on Sept. 16, when an improvised explosive device detonated near their M1A1 Abrams tank during patrol operations.

09/20/05 DoD Identifies Army Casualty
Staff Sgt. Regilio E. Nelom, 45, of Queens, N.Y., died near Al Asad, Iraq, on Sept. 17, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV during an escort mission. Nelom was assigned to the 249th Quartermaster Company.

09/20/05 AP: Texan gave girlfriend, others access to 'Green Zone'
The feds today charged a 48-year-old former government contractor from Texas with fraud related to security operations in Iraq. Thomas Barnes...allegedly gave top access I-D badges in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone to an Iraqi girlfriend

09/20/05 Commercial-News: Soldier hurt in Iraq improves
Joshua “Jake” Denney and six other soldiers were on foot patrol near Baghdad last week when shrapnel from a car bomb hit them. Denney was airlifted to a hospital in Germany, where he endured several surgeries.

09/20/05 IndReg: Eric Kundert awarded Purple Heart for wounds
Specialist Eric Kundert is recuperating at the Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital, Washington, DC. He is receiving extensive repairs and treatment to his face after being shot by a sniper, while in combat against the insurgents, in a town north of Beirut.

09/20/05 USINFO: U.S. Security Officer Dies in Bomb Blast in Northern Iraq
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the United States mourns the death of Stephen Eric Sullivan, a State Department security officer, who died in a bomb blast near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul September 19.

09/20/05 WorldNow: Vt. National Guard Soldier Killed in Iraq
1st Lieutenant Mark Dooley was killed Monday by an improvised explosive device while on a routine patrol mission in Ramadi. Dooley was a native of Wallkill, New York.

09/20/05 Hornell Evening Tribune: Arkport grad injured in Iraq
Army Staff Sgt. Samuel Edwards was 15 miles from completing his mission when the explosion came early in the morning Sept. 11 in Tikrit. he had multiple shrapnel wounds to both legs and sustained three fractures to his right ankle.

09/20/05 DoD Identifies Army Casualty
Sgt. Matthew L. Deckard, 29, of Elizabethtown, Ky., died in Baghdad, Iraq, on Sept. 16, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his M1A1 Abrams tank during patrol operations. He was assigned to the 4th Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment.

09/20/05 AP: Military captures two alleged al-Qaida doctors in Iraq
The military says it has arrested two men who were allegedly working as doctors to treat Iraqi militants. The military says that one of the men was a senior member of al-Qaida in Iraq and holds a pharmacology degree from a Baghdad college.

09/20/05 MOD: Brigadier John Lorimer responds to incident in Basra
During the morning of 19 September 2005 two British soldiers were detained at the Jamiat Police Station in Basra. During the day MND(SE) sent troops to the area near the police station to help ensure their safety by providing a cordon...

09/20/05 Reuters: Iraq criticises British rescue in Basra
Iraq denounced British forces on Tuesday over the dramatic rescue of two undercover soldiers that could stoke hostility to the army in increasingly volatile southern Iraq.

09/20/05 CENTCOM: 18th Military Police Brigade Soldier killed by IED
An 18th Military Police Brigade Soldier was killed 75 miles north of Baghdad when his vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device at 2:25 p.m. Sept. 20.

09/20/05 CENTCOM: Four II MEF Soldiers killed by IED (confirmed)
Four Soldiers assigned to the 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), were killed in action by improvised explosive devices during two separate incidents while conducting combat operations Sept. 19 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq.

09/20/05 Scotsman: Capture of the SAS officers had echoes of the Ulster troubles
The dramatic events have graphically illustrated that our soldiers can no longer trust the very people they are supposed to be preparing for control and the chances of establishing a civilised democracy in that country are as far off...

09/20/05 Reuters: Assassination attempt wounds Dean in Mosul
The Dean of Political Science at Basra University was injured by gunmen while escaping an assassination attempt in eastern Mosul. Police said Talal Younis was leaving his house with his son, who was also injured in the attack.

09/20/05 Reuters: Tribal leader killed in Iskandariya
A local Jubour tribal leader was killed on Monday when gunmen wearing police uniforms shot him in the town of Iskandariya, south west of Baghdad, a source at Babel police said.

09/20/05 Focus: Member of Commission of Iraqi Constitution Arrested
The Police in the Iraqi capital Baghdad have arrested a member of the parliamentary commission that has worked out the new Iraqi Constitution. The identity of the arrested, as well as, the reasons for the arrest are still unknown.

09/20/05 Ananova: Iraq jail flattened in army rescue
Iraqi policemen surveyed the debris at a jail in Basra after its wall was bulldozed. Some officers looked bewildered as they strolled amid a mass of rubble, broken plywood and air conditioning units where the perimeter wall once stood.

09/20/05 AP: Ohio soldier killed on tank in Baghdad
Army Spc. David Ford, 20, of Ironton, was killed Thursday while riding in a tank in Baghdad, family members said. No details were available from the military.

09/20/05 Xinhuanet: Car bomb hits US military convoy in western Baghdad
"A car packed with explosives blew up at about 2:10 p.m. (1010GMT) near a passing US military convoy on the main road near Nafaqal-Shurta (Police Tunnel)," an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

09/20/05 Bloomberg: Four U.S. Soldiers Killed in Action in Ramadi, Western Iraq
The soldiers were killed yesterday by two separate homemade bombs that exploded while they were conducting combat operations in the city in Iraq's al-Anbar province, the military said in an e- mailed statement.

09/20/05 AP: Troop Deaths Hit 1,903 In Iraq
The U.S. military said Tuesday that four U.S. soldiers attached to the Marines were killed in two separate roadside bombings near the insurgent stronghold of Ramadi, pushing the toll of American forces killed in Iraq past 1,900

09/20/05 WaPo: Suicide Bomber Kills U.S. Diplomat in Iraq
An American diplomat and three private security contractors died Monday in the northern city of Mosul when their armored SUV was attacked by a suicide car bomber, a Western official in Baghdad confirmed Tuesday morning.