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ENTERING FALLUJAH — Infantrymen from 1st Platoon, Company E, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, look on from a rooftop as M-1A1 tanks from 1st Tank Battalion fire on buildings where enemy snipers took positions. The company entered Fallujah, Iraq, April 6, 2004, to combat enemy fighters who were attacking Coalition Forces from the city. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Jose E. Guillen
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U.S., British Leaders Pledge
Support for Democratic Iraq |
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| By Gerry J. Gilmore / American Forces Press Service |
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WASHINGTON, April 16, 2004 — The top U.S. and British leaders today
pledged their nations' continued support for a free and democratic
Iraq despite all obstacles.
President George Bush, accompanied
by British Prime Minister Tony Blair at a White House press conference,
told reporters he and Blair are resolved to stand fast with Iraqis
and will not "abandon
them in their hour of need." More Remarks |
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Defense Official Explains U.S.
Strategy to Fight War on Terror |
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| By John D. Banusiewicz / American Forces Press Service |
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WASHINGTON, April 16, 2004 - The U.S. strategy in the global
war on terror boils down to changing the way terrorists live,
rather than changing the way U.S. citizens live, the undersecretary
of defense for policy said in an April 14 speech in Chicago.
Douglas J. Feith spoke at the University of Chicago's student-run
political union.
He said the aim of the war on terror, as defined by President
Bush, is to "defeat terrorism as a threat to our way of life
as a free and open society." This, Feith said, meant the nation
no longer could rely solely, or even primarily, on a defensive
posture. More |
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Joint U.S.-Pakistani Efforts Put
Pressure on Taliban, al Qaeda |
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| By Jim Garamone / American Forces Press Service |
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KABUL, Afghanistan, April 16, 2004 — The Pakistani offensive on
their side of the Afghan border is having a "disruptive effect" on
terrorist operations in Afghanistan, said the commander of the
Combined Forces Command, Afghanistan, today.
The combination of Pakistani and American operations on their respective
sides of the border is literally putting terrorists between a rock
and a hard place, officials said. More |
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Mosul Security Forces Stand
Strong, Show Potential for Iraq |
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| By Jim Garamone / American Forces Press Service |
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MOSUL, Iraq, April 16, 2004 — The threat facing members of the
coalition's Task Force Olympia here remains the same, but the people
responding to it are Iraqis, not Americans.
Mosul, a northern city with Sunni, Shiia and Kurdish ethnic groups,
was not immune to recent disturbances. On the night of April 9,
former regime elements conducted "well-organized and dangerous" attacks
against Iraqi government buildings, said Army Brig. Gen. Carter
Ham, commander of Task Force Olympia. More |
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Marines Not Hindered by Rules
Of Engagement, General Says |
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| By Kathleen T. Rhem / American Forces Press
Service |
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WASHINGTON, April 16, 2004 — Marines surrounding the volatile Iraqi
town of Fallujah may be in an offensive operational pause, but
that doesn't affect their ability to defend themselves, a top U.S.
Central Command officer said today in Doha, Qatar.
Marines moved into the city west of Baghdad in force after four
U.S. contractors were killed and their bodies mutilated there March
31. Iraqi government officials since have brokered a cease-fire. More Briefing |
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Standoff Continues; Coalition
Aims for 'Peaceful Resolution' |
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| By Gerry J. Gilmore / American Forces Press Service |
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WASHINGTON, April 16, 2004 — The standoff between U.S. and coalition
forces and insurgents at the Iraqi city of Fallujah can't continue
much longer, the Coalition Provisional Authority's chief spokesman
said today in Baghdad.
In Fallujah, about 35 miles west
of Baghdad, "our Marines
have been on the receiving end of shots and violence over the past
week" since an April 9 cease- fire went into effect, Dan Senor told reporters at a news conference.
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Tiger
Woods Trains, Hosts
Golf Clinic at Fort Bragg |
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BRAGG, N.C., April 16, 2004 — Golf
superstar Tiger Woods traded in his green
jacket for an Army battle dress uniform and
his golf spikes for combat boots this week
to follow in his father's footsteps and train
with the U.S. Army Special Operations Command. More |
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an On-line Thank You Note |
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Horn of Africa
Intel
Impedes Terror Operations |
| WASHINGTON,
April 16, 2004 — Intelligence successes in U.S.
Central Command have led to the capture of suspected
terrorists and interdictions of drug shipments off the
Horn of Africa, a senior CENTCOM official said today. More Briefing |
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Defense Officials
Identify Army Casualties |
| WASHINGTON,
April 16, 2004 — Defense Department officials announced
the death of three soldiers who were supporting Operation
Iraqi Freedom. More |
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| Honoring
the Fallen |
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| REMEMBERING
A MARINE — Fellow
Marines gathered at Camp Fallujah,
Iraq, April 16, 2004, to remember
Lance Cpl. Levi T. Angell, a 20-year-old
truck driver with Combat Service
Support Company 111, who was killed
in action April 8, 2004, while delivering
supplies in support of Operation
Vigilant Resolve. Angell was a native
of St. Louis, Minn. "He made
you feel like (you're) part of a
family. That feeling is important
because we're all so far away from
our own families," said friend
Lance Cpl. Nolan H. Peterson. U.S
Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt.
Bill Lisbon |
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Guard
Mourns Wisconsin
Soldier Killed in Action |
| ARLINGTON,
Va., April 15, 2004 (Army News Service) — The
National Guard is mourning its first female
soldier ever to be killed in action. Spc.
Michelle Witmer, a military police specialist
from the Wisconsin Army National Guard, died
in Iraq April 9. More |
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Myers Visits Multinational
Division Center-South |
| CAMP BABYLON,
Iraq, April 16, 2004 — Air Force Gen.
Richard Myers, chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, visited
the Headquarters, Multinational Division Center-South,
April 15 at Camp Babylon, Al-Hillah, Iraq, according
to Combined Joint Task Force 7 officials. More |
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| Portsmouth Naval Medical
Team Takes Command in Kuwait |
| KUWAIT,
April 16, 2004 (NNS) — Sailors
from Navy Expeditionary Medical Facility Portsmouth, Va.,
relieved the Army's 801st Combat Support Hospital April
1, 2004. This is the first time a Naval Medicine unit has
taken on this type of assignment, which is part of the
largest troop rotation since World War II. More |
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JUTIAPA, Guatemala, April 16, 2004 — March 27,
2004, will hold a special place in the mind of
U.S. Army Reserve soldier Spc. Beatriz Cruz for
a long time. The event in question was the approach
of Guatemalan President Oscar Berger, for whom
Cruz acted as a tour guide during his visit to
Base Camp Quetzal, following the Exercise New Horizons
2004 opening ceremony. 
SOUTHWEST
ASIA, April 16, 2004 (AFPN) —
In stark contrast to the white
sheets of the hospital bed and
a patient in a light blue paper
gown, a nurse in a brown and
tan desert camouflage uniform
checks the patient’s vital
signs on the nurse’s ward. 