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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=2583
Six Insurgents Captured, Weapons Cache Discovered
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3, 2007 – Six terrorists, including two IED cell members, were captured in Iraq yesterday, and troops discovered a weapons cache.
-- Special Iraqi Police forces, with coalition advisors, detained three suspects during operations yesterday near Hit, Iraq. One detainee is allegedly a member of a bombing cell conducting attacks against Iraqi civilians and security forces.
-- Coalition forces captured a suspected insurgent during operations in Baghdad yesterday. The suspect is allegedly part of an insurgent network responsible for car bombing attacks in the Baghdad area. The suspect is also believed to have recently made arrangements to purchase explosives used for car bombing attacks, military officials said.
-- U.S. Army soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, and elements of 6th Brigade, 2nd Iraqi National Police Division, rescued two hostages and detained the two kidnappers yesterday during a raid in the al-Doura neighborhood.
-- Paratroopers of Company C, 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, found a large amount of 23 mortar rounds and 33 propellant sticks yesterday while on patrol near Bahbahani, Iraq. An explosive ordnance team arrived and conducted a controlled detonation, destroying the munitions.
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=2582
"Caldwell: Iraqi Government Will Control Its Ground Forces by Year's End"
By Gerry J. Gilmore
American Forces Press Service
PRESS RELEASE SNIPPET: "WASHINGTON, Jan. 3, 2007 – The Iraqi government will have command-and-control of all of its ground forces by the end of 2007, a senior U.S. military officer based in Baghdad predicted today.
The year 2007 “is truly the year of transition and adaptation” for Iraq, Army Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV, Multinational Force Iraq spokesman, told reporters at a news conference in Baghdad.
All Iraqi army divisions will be under Iraqi Ground Forces Command by summertime, Caldwell said. And, all Iraqi provinces, he said, will go back to Iraqi provincial control by the fall.
“So that by the end of the year 2007, a significant year of transition, the multinational force and the U.S. mission here in Iraq will be truly in support of the efforts of the government of Iraq and not commanding and controlling those things, but working as a support mechanism,” Caldwell said.
Meanwhile, President George Bush and his advisors are putting the finishing touches on a new U.S. strategy for Iraq. The president is expected to announce the new plan sometime before his State of the Union address, slated for Jan. 23."
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=26275
"Al Qaeda TV"
By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross & Nick Grace
Weekly Standard | January 4, 2007
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"Al-Zawraa Responds to Muj TV
Mashaan Jabouri, the owner of al-Zawraa, responds to my post, Muj TV"
(December 25, 2006)
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