Sep 30th, 2007
Two press releases. 9 mooks sent home, or to someplace other than Allah.
DoD
The Department of Defense announced today the transfer of one detainee from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Mauritania. This detainee was determined to be eligible for transfer following a comprehensive series of review processes conducted at Guantanamo.
The transfer is a demonstration of the [...]
MNF-I
By John Connor, Gulf Region South district
The construction site of the Basrah Children’s Hospital is a hotbed of activity these days, with an average of 750 workers on the job each day, according to Navy Lt. Cmdr. Chad Lorenzana.
And this number likely will jump to 1,000 or more workers a day as the hospital project [...]
Another sign the IA is improving.
MNF-I
Soldiers from the 3rd Iraqi Army Division, with Coalition Forces as advisers, conducted an air assault vehicle interdiction operation resulting in a detonated suicide vest Sept. 28 near Sinjar.
During the operation, the aircraft observed a suspicious bongo truck moving after curfew in a known al-Qaeda in Iraq transit area [...]
Sep 29th, 2007
The Champagne Squadron
Come on. They have to expect us to laugh at that! Don’t they?
DVIDS
KABUL, Afghanistan – The first of six Mirage aircraft from 2-3 Champagne Squadron, French Expeditionary Air Group, landed at Kandahar Airfield recently.
The squadron, which is relocating from its former detachment base at Dushanbe Airport, Tajikistan, will now have greater capability to [...]
Here are my takes on the current Fall television season. Look for the table to be updated as I see new shows.
TELEVISION SHOW & NETWORKOVERALL GRADENOTES
The Big Bang Theory – CBSB+Cute, adorable, a light comdey worth watching.
K-Ville – FoxC-All the bad guys are white. The experienced black detective drinks on duty. His partner somehow managed [...]
Sep 28th, 2007
OK, Shuster ambushes a Republican Congresswoman about the name of the last soldier from her district to die in Iraq. Initial research suggests he was actually from another district.
Media Blog reports that MediaBistro quotes the Memphis Commercial Appeal that the young man’s home town was in her district.
Gotcha!
DoD press release:
The Department of Defense announced today [...]
USA Today filed a FOI request and today prints a summary of enemy losses in Iraq. A big thank you to Lyle Katz for the pointer.
US combat losses derived from the data at Iraq Coalition Casualties. Enemy losses are through September 22:
YEARENEMY DEADUS KIA
20074,882689
20063,902703
20053,247676
20046,801719
2003597323
MNF-I
Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers, working with Iraqi Army troops, uncovered a weapons cache in the western Baghdad neighborhood of Jamia Sept. 24.
Troops from 3rd Company, 5th Battalion, 6th Iraqi Army led Company B, 1st Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment to the cache site, located in an abandoned field in the middle of the neighborhood.
The cache [...]
MNF-I
The bodies of a murdered Sunni Iraqi police lieutenant and his wife were recovered in Baghdad’s Adhamiyah neighborhood Sep. 25.
The couple had been abducted several days before by Sunni insurgents, said relatives.
The bodies were discovered dumped in a pile of trash beneath a pedestrian overpass in the Sunni-dominated neighborhood of Adhamiyah in Baghdad.
Both victims appeared [...]