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| FERRY MISSION — A CH-47 Chinook cargo helicopter ferrys cargo and personnel to and from various U.S. facilities around the country of Afghanistan, Dec. 27, 2003. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Isaac Scruggs |
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Officials Call Saddam a POW
But Say Status Could Change |
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| By Gerry J. Gilmore / American Forces Press Service |
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 10, 2004 — The United States now considers former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to be a prisoner of war under the Geneva Conventions, a senior U.S. official said today in Baghdad.
However, Coalition Provisional Authority spokesman Dan Senor told reporters that Hussein's POW status may change, depending on any evidence that may be uncovered pertaining to his alleged crimes against humanity.
Hussein "is now technically an enemy prisoner of war, but that status, his ultimate designation, is neither affected nor determined by that (POW) designation," Senor explained, noting "until further information comes forward, that is his status." More |
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Ridge Lowers Threat Level,
But Nation Remains On Guard |
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| By Gerry J. Gilmore /
American Forces Press Service |
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WASHINGTON,
Jan. 9, 2004 — Although the nation's terrorist threat indicator
level was
lowered from Code Orange to Yellow, America remains on guard,
Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said
here today.
"The (terrorist) threat conditions that we've been following
have diminished," Ridge noted to reporters at a press
briefing.
Code Orange, which was implemented Dec. 21, indicates a high
risk of a terrorist incident, and is the second-most-severe
threat index of a five level, color-coded scale. More |
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Task Force 'All American'
Reports
Progress in Fallujah |
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FALLUJAH,
Iraq, Jan. 9, 2004 — The 82nd Airborne Division and its
subordinate units conducted 191 patrols, including 11 joint
patrols with the Iraqi Police and Border Patrol Guards, and
six offensive operations during the past 24 hours, U.S. Central
command officials reported today.
While conducting a patrol, paratroopers from the
division’s 3rd Brigade identified a vehicle and two people placing an improvised
explosive device along the road. Officials said the soldiers engaged the enemy
with direct fire, killing one, wounding the other and destroying the vehicle.
The wounded individual was evacuated for treatment and is in stable condition.
Paratroopers found a large propane tank with wires protruding from it. An explosive
ordnance detachment secured the device. More |
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| 101st Airborne Division Troops
Capture Anti-Coalition Suspects |
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MOSUL,
Iraq, Jan. 9, 2003 —Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division
(Air Assault) captured six people suspected of anti-coalition
activities during pre-dawn raids in northern Iraq Jan. 8, according
to U.S. Central Command officials.
Officials said an element of the division’s
1st Brigade Combat Team detained five individuals in Ash Shura for attacks on
coalition forces and for their connections to making improvised explosive devices.
The element confiscated an AK-47 rifle and electrical components that could be
used for making the homemade bombs.
In Mosul, officials said 3rd Battalion, 327th Infantry
Regiment detained a man wanted for the sale of two Samoud missiles during a joint
cordon-and-knock operation with Iraqi Civil Defense Corps soldiers. More |
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Guard Artillerymen Training
As MPs to Support Terror War |
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| By Donna Miles / American Forces Press Service |
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WASHINGTON,
Jan. 9, 2004 — The third group of National Guard artillerymen
is slated to begin retraining
as military police
at the Army’s Military Police School at Fort Leonard
Wood, Mo., Jan. 12 to support the war on terror.
The soldiers are among the first of about 2,200
Army National Guard soldiers to be retrained as provisional military police
to conduct patrols, control crowd and direct traffic at military
installations in the United States and Germany. More |
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U.S.
Defense Dept. slides
with facts &
figures on reconstruction efforts in Iraq. |
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Unit Issues
Mail Guidance
For Redeploying Troops |
CAMP
ARIFJAN, Kuwait, Jan. 9, 2004 — The Army's 3rd Personnel
Command has issued guidance to redeploying troops about
redirecting their mail for a smooth, timely transition
to their home-bound addresses.
The unit manages postal operations in the Operation
Iraqi Freedom theater, and has provided procedures to be followed by soldiers,
mail clerks and commanders to ensure mail is properly channeled. More |
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| Transformation |
DoD
Tests Supply
Tracking Technology |
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WASHINGTON,
Jan. 9, 2004 - In its ongoing effort to improve
support to troops in the field, the Defense
Department is testing radio-frequency identification
technology, Alan Estevez, assistant deputy
undersecretary of defense for supply chain
integration said here today.
RFID tags contain microchips that, when scanned,
send out a unique identification signal. Tagged items can be added quickly to
inventory databases and can even be wirelessly tracked for short distances. More |
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Defense Dept.
Resumes Anthrax
Vaccine Immunization Program |
WASHINGTON,
Jan. 8, 2004 — A federal judge ruled Jan. 7 that
the Defense Department could again legally administer
anthrax immunizations to troops.
That same day, Defense Department personnel chief Dr.
David S.C. Chu noted in a departmentwide memorandum that military commanders "should
immediately resume the anthrax vaccination program."
The department's anthrax vaccine immunization program
had been in hiatus since Dec. 23, after an injunction granted the previous day
by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia caused the department
to suspend the program. More |
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Humvees Getting
Extra
Armor Reinforcements |
 FORWARD OPERATING BASE IRONHORSE, TIKRIT, Iraq — For soldiers conducting missions outside the
walls of Forward Operating Base Ironhorse, Humvees,
canvas-covered, or soft-back, may not be the
best protection on the road.
In an effort to
improve the protection of these soldiers, improvised
armor kits are being assembled
for four-passenger Humvees. More
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| U.S.
Aids Afghan Women |
| WASHINGTON,
Jan. 9, 2004 — The United States has implemented
more than 175 programs for the benefit of Afghan
women in the areas of political participation,
economic opportunity, education, and health care,
according to a fact sheet released Jan. 8 by the
State Department's Office of International Women's
Issues. Fact
Sheet |
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| Coalition
Condemns Attack |
| Medics
Bring Care to Communities |
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BAGHDAD,
Iraq, Jan. 7, 2004 — “Duty, honor,
country: Those three hallowed words reverently
dictate what you ought to be, what you can be,
what you will be … they build your basic
character. They mold you for your future roles
as the custodians of the Nation's defense. They
make you strong enough to know when you are weak,
and brave enough to face yourself when you are
afraid,” said Gen. of the Army Douglas MacArthur
in his 1962 Sylvanus Thayer Award acceptance speech
at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. 
FORWARD
OPERATING BASE IRONHORSE,
TIKRIT, Iraq — The
newest security guard
for the 4th Infantry
Division can sniff
out trouble before
others know its coming.
Good instincts and
loyalty are just two
things that make this
sentry at the front
gate of Forward Operating
Base Ironhorse the
best at his job. Also,
no matter the hour
or the weather, he
doesn’t
complain.