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Iraq: Aug-Oct 2007

Reporting from "Inside the Surge" with Charlie Co. 2-505 PIR (82nd Airborne) in Samarra, with Baker Co. 1-15 INF (3/3 ID) in Salman Pak, and with a U.S. Special Forces team in Tal Afar, as well as other units and areas (click here for a map of Iraq).

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Articles, Updates, and Dispatches:

• 10,000 miles from home, the 4th of July is celebrated as enthusiastically as ever (Dispatches and Updates)
  


• The "Concerned Citizen" Phenomenon Takes Hold (Dispatches and Updates)
  


• "The Longest Morning": A Story of Heroism, Courage, and Sacrifice in the Face of Impossible Odds (The American Spectator)
  


• The Situation in Iraq is Incredibly Complex -- and the Products of the 'Surge' will not Survive a Coalition Drawdown (The American Thinker)
  


• Iraqi National Police Thwart al Qaeda Suicide Car Bomb Attack in Samarra (The Weekly Standard online)
  


• Photographs: With Charlie Co, 2-505 Parachute Infantry Regiment (82nd Airborne), Sept 1-30, in Samarra
  


• The Beginning of the End (Dispatches and Updates)
  


• Developing Iraqi Security Forces: A Long, Difficult, and Dangerous Process (The Weekly Standard online)
  


• Military Success, Political Stalemate: Peace and Security are More Important than Democratic Government when Moving Forward in Iraq (The Jerusalem Post)
  


• How they Live: A Guided Tour of (most of) Patrol Base Olson in Samarra, Iraq (Dispatches and Updates)
  


• Raids, Ramadan, and Supporting Iraqi Police as they perform their own missions (Dispatches and Updates)
  


• Picture of the Day: Iraqi contractors work on the new National Police barracks and training center north of Samarra
  


• Iraqi National Police Break Up al Qaeda Rape, Terror Cell in Samarra (Human Events)
  


• Iraqis Show Courage (The Washington Times)
  


• Raids, Grenades, and Gunfire: The Last Few Days in Samarra, Part II (Dispatches and Updates)
  


• Picture of the Day: The Author Firing an AK-47 on Patrol Base Olson in Samarra, Iraq
  


• "Taking Heat": A Night Op in Samarra Ends in a Hail of Gunfire (The Weekly Standard online)
  


• Don't Abandon the Iraqis Now: The strategy to increase troop presence shouldn't be cut short (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  


• The Last Few Days in Samarra (Dispatches and Updates)
  


• From "Within the Surge," the Situation is Complex and Fragile – but Hopeful (Human Events)
  


• Samarra: Clearing, Recon, and Hit by an IED -- September 4-5, Part II (The Weekly Standard online)
  


• Hellfire and Brimstone: Killing al Qaeda in Samarra -- September 4-5, Part I (The Weekly Standard online)
  


• Gunbattle in Samarra and AQI attack on a Hospital (Dispatches and Updates)
  


• Air Assault Into al Qaeda Country (The Weekly Standard online)


• Collected Thoughts After a Few Days in Baghdad (Dispatches and Updates)
  


• Tal Afar SWAT: The Iraqi Police have an elite unit in Nineveh Province, courtesy of the US Special Forces (The Weekly Standard online)
  


• Maliki's 'Grand Compromise': Can the Grid of the Iraqi Government be Unlocked? (Human Events)
  


• All Combat Zone Journalism is Not Created Equal (National Review Online)
  


• Too Soon to Give Up: A Report From Iraq (American Thinker)
  


• Another Iraqi ‘Awakening’?: In yet another region of Iraq, one tribe decides that it wants something better than what the insurgency has to offer (The American Spectator)
  


• Southeast of Baghdad, the Surge is Working (The Washington Times)
  


• Photographs: With 3/3 ID, Aug 8-18, in Salman Pak
  


• The Surge in Action: Baker Company 1-15 rallies villagers to the Coalition and against the insurgency (The Weekly Standard online)
  


• Baker Company Med Op in Wuerdiya (Dispatches and Updates)
  


• Operation Marne Huskey and Proof that I'll Never be a New York Times Reporter (Dispatches and Updates)
  


• Gun-battle Light Show, Med Ops, and Major Offensive Operations (Dispatches and Updates)
  


• Clearing the Routes of IEDs and Taking the Fight to al Qaeda (Dispatches and Updates)
  


• Ashes and Dust: The Aftermath of an Insurgent Attack (The Weekly Standard online)
  


• HIIDE™ and Seek: Protecting the People by Building the Database (Human Events)
  


• Tankers on Two Legs: One 'Surge' Brigade Gets Creative in Fight Against al Qaeda (The Weekly Standard online)
  


• Air Assault and Concerned Citizens: Baker Company 1-15 (Dispatches and Updates)
  


• SE of Bahgdad: From LZ Washington to COP Cahill (Dispatches and Updates)
  


• First Stop: 3rd ID and FOB Hammer (Dispatches and Updates)
  


• Day One: 118 Degrees -- In the Evening (Dispatches and Updates)
  

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1 Comments:

At 12:06 AM,  Anonymous said...

Good luck Jeff. Be safe and please keep us posted. I am recommended your site to people for donations.

 

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