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...associate themselves with the specifics of Turkey's campaign against the PKK. At a press conference Wednesday spokesmen for the U.S. military and the American embassy repeatedly said that questions about the raids should be asked of the Turkish and Iraqi governments, not the U.S. military in Iraq. Maj. Gen. Kevin Bergner said that American military cooperation with Turkey comes through the U.S.'s European Command; American forces in Iraq are under a separate regional chain of command. Philip Reeker, the U.S. embassy's spokesman, stressed that the raids were "Turkish decisions." He cast the U.S. in the role...
Those trends are reflected in the experience of Sauer's battalion, which operates in an area of Baghdad called 9 Nisan. "It was extraordinarily violent when I first got here," said Maj. David C. Freeman, on of the battalion's staff officers. "They really were able to do a number...
...more aggressive patrolling, targeted raids and more robust civil affair missions and infrastructure projects have dented the militants' ability to mount such attacks in recent months, but Diwaniyah is still a dangerous place for foreign troops. During an emotional Catholic Mass Friday night after Cpl. Filipek's death, Maj. Gen. Tadeusz Buk, the commander of all Polish forces in Iraq, called for the Coalition troops in Diwaniyah to rally together in their time of grief. "Please, let me ask you to get even more united, even more strong, so that this sacrifice is not a waste," he said...
California's National Guard Commander Maj. Gen. William Wade extolled the "coordination and cooperation" in the Schwarzenegger-led effort. L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca said the fires were a reminder that "this state requires the gubernatorial leadership that you provide...
...look at the graph [of attacks] after about April and it just falls. It's a free fall," said Maj. Austin Miller, head of the U.S. Army's civil affairs mission in the Mahmudiyah district. Military leaders credit the recent lull in violence to Sunni tribal leaders who earlier this year turned on al-Qaeda in Iraq in response to its excesses. It dovetails with a movement that began a year ago in neighboring Anbar Province to the west and has since spread out from there along tribal lines...