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- UPI's Pamela Hess on Iraq
"That was fairy profound for me ... and I don't think Americans understand the incredible savagery and the violence that American military officers are seeing every day over there, and I think that is really centrally the key to why...
- "The Fallujan people are gonna have to stand up on their own and tell these people, 'get out, we're done.'"An Interview with a Civil Affairs Marine
Marine Staff Sergeant Tyler Belshe has a hard job. In addition to the natural difficulty of winning hearts and minds in a xenophobic city iconic among Arabs for resistance to occupation - the birthplace of insurgency in Iraq -...
- Note: Material Delayed (Plus Gangsterism in the GWoT)
I'm receiving new information that will influence this week's promised posts. In the meantime, in her resignation from Dean's World, Mary Madigan makes a good point about the Global War on Terror: I think we're fighting a bunch of gangsters....
- What it's Like to be a Cop in Fallujah
Captain Tad Scott of the Fallujah Police Transition Team e-mailed regarding an attack on an Iraqi police officer I'd met during my embed: The insurgents attacked his home, shot his wife, his mother in law, his cousin, and also tried...
- Programming Note
I'm simultaneously working on three posts that should round out my embed coverage. I expect that they'll be up by Monday. Thanks for your patience....
- Appearance
I'll be joining the "From the Front" panel at this year's Milblog conference on May 5th....
- "Living with Snipers" (the Literal and Media Varieties)
Hot Air features an excerpt from Pat Dollard's documentary "Young Americans," profiling Marines in al-Anbar. The besieged government center in Ramadi looks very much like the besieged government center in Fallujah, with perhaps even more shrapnel holes in the walls....
- Radio Appearance (UPDATED with Recorded Audio)
I'll be on Pundit Review Radio tonight at about 8:20 Eastern. You can listen live on WKRO AM680 in the Boston area or via online feed here. (The "listen live" link is in the top-right corner of the page) I...
- Video of Marines in Fallujah
While browsing Youtube, I came across this clip of 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines operating in Fallujah. Notable are the scenes of American interaction with Iraqi Army soldiers, a controlled detonation of an IED with a remote-controlled robot, day and night...
- Cultural Barriers and the Importance of Personalities
Under a link to my interview with the Jundi, Jules Crittenden's commenter "The_Real_JeffS" authors relevant remarks about the cultural impediments to training Iraqi security forces: The primary problem that we face in training a new Iraqi miltiary can be described...
- "Tell the American people we need the U.S. Army here:"An Interview with the Jundi
(L to R) Iraqi Army soldiers Jabbar, Mohaned F, Mohaned N and Mohammed sit in their room at Forward Operating Base Castle in NE Fallujah. Names truncated for security reasons. As outlined in my analysis of the Military Transition...
- Eteraz.org Launches Anti-Fundamentalist Fundraiser
Sounds like a worthy effort: NEW YORK, NY 02/18/2007 - In an effort to counter the influence of radical Islamic doctrine in the US & UK, Muslim activist organization and think tank Eteraz.org has launched a fundraiser to provide modernist...
- "It was time to stop simply talking about human rights and actually do something to help secure them."
The LA Times runs a feature on 2LT Mark Daily, the idealist soldier killed last month in Mosul: In a 2005 videotape of his officers' commissioning ceremony, Daily told the crowd that the U.S. Army is one of the few...
- Random Pictures, Three
Miller Time: The Fallujah Police Chief and an IP Major celebrate the day's successful defense of a police station. Insurgents had surrounded the station with IEDs attached to fuel drums in an attempt to blow up the building. IPs...
- "But again, it's a cultural thing, and it's going to take some time:"Analysis of the Fallujah MiTT Mission and an Interview with a MiTT Commander
An instructional reminder hangs on the wall of Forward Operating Base Castle, home to the 1-2-1 Iraqi Army and their US Army MiTT advisors. The story of the Military Transition Team (MiTT) mission in Fallujah is a fairly positive...
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