Wednesday, October 27, 2004
A US soldier carries a rocket
A US soldier carries a rocket he removed from close to the wreckage of a car bomb along a road north of the city of Baquba. A US soldier was killed and another wounded in a suspected motorcycle bombing against their convoy in eastern Iraq , the military said.(AFP/Ali Yussef) Yahoo! News - World Photos - AFP
Operation Bracken
British troops make their way north from southern Iraq to start Operation Bracken, October 27, 2004. British troops moved north from Basra to take over a deadly area near Baghdad and free up U.S. troops for a possible attack on Falluja. Photo by Reuters (Handout) Yahoo! News - World Photos - Reuters
American Hero PFC CHRISTOPHER ADAIR
PFC CHRISTOPHER ADAIR
Chris is 20, serving in Iraq with the Ist Marine Division, 2/7 Echo Company. He is radio operator. Chris was the youngest in our small valley of Westcliffe, CO to go out and get his red card for wild land firefighting and also was a member of our volunteer fire department. He loves his friends and family and misses them and our mountains very much.
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Chris is 20, serving in Iraq with the Ist Marine Division, 2/7 Echo Company. He is radio operator. Chris was the youngest in our small valley of Westcliffe, CO to go out and get his red card for wild land firefighting and also was a member of our volunteer fire department. He loves his friends and family and misses them and our mountains very much.
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Star - Vehicle bombed in Baghdad
Vehicle bombed in Baghdad
October 27, 2004
Baghdad - Witnesses claimed attackers detonated a roadside bomb today in the Iraqi capital, and news footage showed US forces at the blast site guarding a destroyed 4x4.
Associated Press Television News showed the vehicle flipped over and peppered with holes in Ghazaliya.
The US military had no immediate information on the attack.
In a separate incident, insurgents hit a US Bradley armoured vehicle with a bomb on Baghdad's airport road, damaging it, but causing no injuries, the military said.
The Ghazaliya blast came as about 800 British troops, accompanied by US marines, began making their way toward Baghdad today as part of a redeployment ahead of an expected coalition offensive against insurgent strongholds.
British Lieutenant Colonel James Cowan said British troops left the southern city of Basra to head for a base north of Hillah, about 95km south of Baghdad. Forty US marines were with them, he said.
APTN footage showed large flatbed trucks carrying British armoured vehicles up a road through Iraq's southern desert.
Nearly 800 Scottish soldiers of the 1st Battalion, Black Watch, are to replace US forces who are expected to take part in offensives against insurgent strongholds west and north of the capital to bring order to Iraq before elections in January.
The US military wants the British to assume security responsibility in areas close to Baghdad, so US forces can move to insurgency strongholds west of the capital. - Sapa-AP
Star - Vehicle bombed in Baghdad
October 27, 2004
Baghdad - Witnesses claimed attackers detonated a roadside bomb today in the Iraqi capital, and news footage showed US forces at the blast site guarding a destroyed 4x4.
Associated Press Television News showed the vehicle flipped over and peppered with holes in Ghazaliya.
The US military had no immediate information on the attack.
In a separate incident, insurgents hit a US Bradley armoured vehicle with a bomb on Baghdad's airport road, damaging it, but causing no injuries, the military said.
The Ghazaliya blast came as about 800 British troops, accompanied by US marines, began making their way toward Baghdad today as part of a redeployment ahead of an expected coalition offensive against insurgent strongholds.
British Lieutenant Colonel James Cowan said British troops left the southern city of Basra to head for a base north of Hillah, about 95km south of Baghdad. Forty US marines were with them, he said.
APTN footage showed large flatbed trucks carrying British armoured vehicles up a road through Iraq's southern desert.
Nearly 800 Scottish soldiers of the 1st Battalion, Black Watch, are to replace US forces who are expected to take part in offensives against insurgent strongholds west and north of the capital to bring order to Iraq before elections in January.
The US military wants the British to assume security responsibility in areas close to Baghdad, so US forces can move to insurgency strongholds west of the capital. - Sapa-AP
Star - Vehicle bombed in Baghdad
Jihad Unspun - An UNClear View On The US War On "Terrorism"
Ansar al-Sunnah Army Captures 11 Guardsmen; US Warned On Entering Fallujah
Oct 27, 2004
JUS News Desk
An Iraqi resistance group has claimed to have captured 11 US-backed Iraqi National Guard soldiers hostage. They were seized on a highway between Baghdad and Hillah, according to the Internet posting by Ansar al-Sunnah Army. The posting included the names of all 11 but as of press time no demands for their release have been made.
Meanwhile, a masked gunman warned in a videotape that Mujahideen will attack all Iraqi and multinational military and civilian targets with "weapons and military tactics they have not experienced" if US occupation forces try to storm the city.
In the videotape obtained by Associated Press Television News, the gunman, dressed in an old-style Iraqi army uniform, read the statement on behalf of the factions of Islamic Resistance Movement in Iraq.
The speaker, who appeared with seven other masked and armed men, accused the Iraqi government of "aborting a peaceful solution with the people of Fallujah." He warned all Iraqi military personnel and government employees to quit their jobs or otherwise they "will be permissible targets for our fighters."
Jihad Unspun - A Clear View On The US War On "Terrorism"
Oct 27, 2004
JUS News Desk
An Iraqi resistance group has claimed to have captured 11 US-backed Iraqi National Guard soldiers hostage. They were seized on a highway between Baghdad and Hillah, according to the Internet posting by Ansar al-Sunnah Army. The posting included the names of all 11 but as of press time no demands for their release have been made.
Meanwhile, a masked gunman warned in a videotape that Mujahideen will attack all Iraqi and multinational military and civilian targets with "weapons and military tactics they have not experienced" if US occupation forces try to storm the city.
In the videotape obtained by Associated Press Television News, the gunman, dressed in an old-style Iraqi army uniform, read the statement on behalf of the factions of Islamic Resistance Movement in Iraq.
The speaker, who appeared with seven other masked and armed men, accused the Iraqi government of "aborting a peaceful solution with the people of Fallujah." He warned all Iraqi military personnel and government employees to quit their jobs or otherwise they "will be permissible targets for our fighters."
Jihad Unspun - A Clear View On The US War On "Terrorism"
Japan refuses to withdraw troops from Iraq as hostage faces execution
Japan refuses to withdraw troops from Iraq as hostage faces execution
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-10-27 20:42
Japan insisted it would not bow to the demands of Islamic militants in Iraq who threatened to behead a young Japanese unless Tokyo withdraws its troops from the country within 48 hours.
Masumi Koda, father of Shosei Koda, identified as the Japanese man taken hostage and threatened to be beheaded by al-Qaeda-linked militants in Iraq, speaks to reporters with his weeping wife Setsuko outside their home in Nogata, southern Japan October 27, 2004. [Reuters]
"The Self-Defence Forces will not withdraw," Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, a staunch US ally, said as he went ahead with a tour of typhoon damage in western Japan. "We must not bow to terrorism."
The al-Qaeda-linked group of Iraq's most wanted man Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi released a video overnight on the Internet of a shaggy-haired Japanese-speaking man in a white T-shirt, at the feet of three armed and masked men.
"We are giving the Japanese government 48 hours in which to withdraw its troops from Iraq, otherwise this infidel will join the others (executed)," a militant said in the video.
Among the others, the militant mentioned the American Nicholas Berg and Briton Kenneth Bigley, who were both decapitated.
The Japanese man said on the video: "Mr Koizumi, they demand the Japanese government withdraw the Japanese Self-Defence Forces from Iraq or they will chop off my head.
"I'm sorry, but I want to come back to Japan," he said unemotionally in Japanese.
Japan identified the hostage as Shosei Koda, a 24-year-old from southern Fukuoka province who "has been wandering around many countries", said Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda, the government spokesman.
Koda had been in New Zealand on a working holiday until July but had not been in contact since, his father said, according to the foreign ministry.
The incident marked the second hostage crisis faced by Koizumi, a close supporter of US President George W. Bush, since his historic decision to deploy troops to Iraq despite widespread domestic opposition.
In April militants kidnapped three Japanese aid workers and two journalists in Iraq but they were released unharmed after days
Japan refuses to withdraw troops from Iraq as hostage faces execution
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-10-27 20:42
Japan insisted it would not bow to the demands of Islamic militants in Iraq who threatened to behead a young Japanese unless Tokyo withdraws its troops from the country within 48 hours.
Masumi Koda, father of Shosei Koda, identified as the Japanese man taken hostage and threatened to be beheaded by al-Qaeda-linked militants in Iraq, speaks to reporters with his weeping wife Setsuko outside their home in Nogata, southern Japan October 27, 2004. [Reuters]
"The Self-Defence Forces will not withdraw," Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, a staunch US ally, said as he went ahead with a tour of typhoon damage in western Japan. "We must not bow to terrorism."
The al-Qaeda-linked group of Iraq's most wanted man Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi released a video overnight on the Internet of a shaggy-haired Japanese-speaking man in a white T-shirt, at the feet of three armed and masked men.
"We are giving the Japanese government 48 hours in which to withdraw its troops from Iraq, otherwise this infidel will join the others (executed)," a militant said in the video.
Among the others, the militant mentioned the American Nicholas Berg and Briton Kenneth Bigley, who were both decapitated.
The Japanese man said on the video: "Mr Koizumi, they demand the Japanese government withdraw the Japanese Self-Defence Forces from Iraq or they will chop off my head.
"I'm sorry, but I want to come back to Japan," he said unemotionally in Japanese.
Japan identified the hostage as Shosei Koda, a 24-year-old from southern Fukuoka province who "has been wandering around many countries", said Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda, the government spokesman.
Koda had been in New Zealand on a working holiday until July but had not been in contact since, his father said, according to the foreign ministry.
The incident marked the second hostage crisis faced by Koizumi, a close supporter of US President George W. Bush, since his historic decision to deploy troops to Iraq despite widespread domestic opposition.
In April militants kidnapped three Japanese aid workers and two journalists in Iraq but they were released unharmed after days
Japan refuses to withdraw troops from Iraq as hostage faces execution
Iraq War News
Iraq British URGENT in Katu.com: Iraq & Terror
Kin of Slain Troops Harden Political Views (AP): "AP - In the year and a half since her son died in Iraq, Arlene Walters has transformed her living room into a shrine."
In Yahoo! News: Iraq
British troops in southern Iraq start heading north (AFP): "AFP - A battle group of British troops in southern Iraq started to move northwards on a US-requested mission to more dangerous areas nearer Baghdad, an AFP reporter said."
In Yahoo! News: Iraq
British military begins deployment in Iraq: "Some 800 British forces, accompanied by U.S. Marines, began making their way toward Baghdad on Wednesday as part of a redeployment ahead of an expected coalition offensive against insurgent strongholds."
In Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Iraq PM: US-led military negligent in recruit massacre, Japan refuses troop withdrawal (AFP): "AFP - Iraq's prime minister accused the US-led military of negligence in the massacre of 49 unarmed Iraqi soldiers, and Japan refused to withdraw its troops from Iraq following a kidnapping."
In Yahoo! News: Iraq
Al-Qaqaa Spokesman Says No Weapons Search: "One of the first U.S. military units to reach the Al-Qaqaa military installation south of Baghdad after the invasion of Iraq did not have orders to search for the nearly 400 tons of explosives that are missing from the site, the unit spokesman said Tuesday. (AP)"
In Yahoo! News: War with Iraq
Independent probe sought in Abu Ghraib case: "LONDON (AP) - Amnesty International on Wednesday renewed its call for the United States to set up an independent investigation of the abuse of prisoners in Afghanistan, at Guantanamo Bay and at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq."
In Fresno Bee: Iraq
Iraq group 'seizes Japan citizen': "Japan's prime minister rejects Iraqi militants' demands for a troop pullout after a Japanese man is seized."
In BBC: Conflict with Iraq (UK Edition)
Pentagon mulls Iraq troop boost: "The US is considering sending more troops to Iraq in the run-up to January election, the Pentagon confirms."
In BBC: Conflict with Iraq
Iraq British URGENT in Katu.com: Iraq & Terror
Kin of Slain Troops Harden Political Views (AP): "AP - In the year and a half since her son died in Iraq, Arlene Walters has transformed her living room into a shrine."
In Yahoo! News: Iraq
British troops in southern Iraq start heading north (AFP): "AFP - A battle group of British troops in southern Iraq started to move northwards on a US-requested mission to more dangerous areas nearer Baghdad, an AFP reporter said."
In Yahoo! News: Iraq
British military begins deployment in Iraq: "Some 800 British forces, accompanied by U.S. Marines, began making their way toward Baghdad on Wednesday as part of a redeployment ahead of an expected coalition offensive against insurgent strongholds."
In Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Iraq PM: US-led military negligent in recruit massacre, Japan refuses troop withdrawal (AFP): "AFP - Iraq's prime minister accused the US-led military of negligence in the massacre of 49 unarmed Iraqi soldiers, and Japan refused to withdraw its troops from Iraq following a kidnapping."
In Yahoo! News: Iraq
Al-Qaqaa Spokesman Says No Weapons Search: "One of the first U.S. military units to reach the Al-Qaqaa military installation south of Baghdad after the invasion of Iraq did not have orders to search for the nearly 400 tons of explosives that are missing from the site, the unit spokesman said Tuesday. (AP)"
In Yahoo! News: War with Iraq
Independent probe sought in Abu Ghraib case: "LONDON (AP) - Amnesty International on Wednesday renewed its call for the United States to set up an independent investigation of the abuse of prisoners in Afghanistan, at Guantanamo Bay and at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq."
In Fresno Bee: Iraq
Iraq group 'seizes Japan citizen': "Japan's prime minister rejects Iraqi militants' demands for a troop pullout after a Japanese man is seized."
In BBC: Conflict with Iraq (UK Edition)
Pentagon mulls Iraq troop boost: "The US is considering sending more troops to Iraq in the run-up to January election, the Pentagon confirms."
In BBC: Conflict with Iraq
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