Word: centcom
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...death every other day. Six British MPs were killed near Basra on Tuesday and eight were wounded in a second incident; a U.S. Marine was killed en route to help ambushed comrades Wednesday; two U.S. troops were reported missing overnight Thursday in Baghdad, and later in the day Centcom announced that a Special Operations soldier had been killed and eight wounded by hostile fire during an operation southwest of Baghdad. Two Iraqis employed to help restore Baghdad's electricity supply were among those killed in a rocket attack on a U.S. convoy Thursday, while saboteurs blew up two important...
...national celebration was tempered on Saturday when the Pentagon identified the remains of nine of her compatriots from the 507th who were found in shallow graves near the hospital where Lynch was rescued. "Of course there is a feeling of satisfaction when you get one soldier back," Centcom spokesman Brigadier General Vincent Brooks told TIME in an interview last week, "but it is a temporary satisfaction." Even at its most fleeting, the feeling was hard to let go. --Reported by Brian Bennett/Tallil, Sally B. Donnelly/Doha and Marc Hequet/Palestine, with other bureaus
...have important information about woman soldier in hospital." Over the next 48 hours, the Marines sent him back to the hospital twice to gather more information. Finally, Mohammed drew five rough maps of the hospital by hand. Using them as guides, a planning team at U.S. Central Command (Centcom) began furiously sketching out the mission...
...assigned to the relative calm of the U.S. military's nerve center in Qatar. "This was as close as I wanted to get to the battlefield now that I'm a wife and a mom of two," she says. Her dispatches on the air war and wry take on Centcom briefings have proved invaluable to TIME's coverage...
...refreshing change, he said he did not have any statement, and just wanted to answer our questions. The first asked about the plan and the timing of the war. The senior CENTCOM officer said pressure was being applied to the regime in a variety of ways. He singled out special operations in both north and western Iraq as having been highly successful and said that the triangle of Tikrit, Baghdad and Ar Ramadi (what he called "the center of the regime") would get serious additional pressure in the near future...