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Polygon
March 21, 2018
I was part of the second major Fallujah offensive in 2004 with the 2nd Marine Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, and I fought in Ramadi and Fallujah in 2005 with the ... I went through U.S. Marine Corps Boot Camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, and Marine Combat Training at Camp Geiger, North Carolina.
The Atlantic
March 20, 2018
Fifteen years ago, the bombs started falling on Baghdad. U.S. war planners had hoped a campaign of “shock and awe” would expedite the conflict, demoralize the Iraqi forces, and speed up their surrender. While the initial overthrow of Saddam Hussein was relatively quick, the Iraq War itself was anythingÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 10, 2018
Actions taken by the US at the beginning of the war continue to have reverberating consequences, including allegations that US detention centres such as Camp Bucca became breeding grounds for armed groups in Iraq, and helped to lay the groundwork for the formation of the Islamic State of Iraq and theÃâà...
Record Bee
March 3, 2018
... in battle of Fallujah (duties as a special staff officer to General Conway assigned to safeguard access to classified information and operations), and Deputy Camp Commander and Anti-Terrorism officer for Camp Courtney, Okinawa-Japan, protecting and safeguarding over 5000 Marines and families whoÃâà...
Thomson Reuters Foundation
February 27, 2018
It found that 84 percent of Iraqis in the Amriyat Al-Fallujah and Bezabize camps reported feeling safer in the camps than in their area of origin. "People are afraid of retribution, unexploded bombs, or simply have nowhere to return to," said Petr Kostohryz, Iraq country director for the Norwegian RefugeeÃâà...
Reliefweb
February 27, 2018
84% of displaced Iraqis in Amriyat Al-Fallujah (AAF) and Bezabize camps reported feeling safer in their current camp locations than in their area of origin, 62% of them did not think aid would be available back home, and only 1% reported knowing that their houses were available for return, demonstratingÃâà...
Tribune-Review
February 20, 2018
CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq - Sgt. Robert B. Brown from Fayetteville, N.C. with Regimental Combat Team 6, Combat Camera Unit watches over the civilian Fire Fighters at the burn pit as smoke and flames rise into the night sky behind him on May 25th, 2007.
Wellington Advertiser
February 15, 2018
Anyway, our informal chat, of which there were many, involved the goings-on at Camp Fallujah. There, suspected terrorists and notorious fighters were brutalized at the hands of their captors. Waterboarding, humiliating acts and activities that ran contrary to the Quran were visited upon the prisoners.
Arab News
February 11, 2018
Sayer said the army could not do that much in the “mine-contaminated area” because of lack of experience and because Baghdad's government does not have enough money to get foreign specialized companies to treat the 300 houses booby trapped in Fallujah. “We are relying on international donors toÃâà...
AsiaOne
February 11, 2018
Currently around 380 families of jihadists, women and children, are detained in two Anbar camps where conditions are harsh. ... Erfan Ali, Iraq representative for the UN Human Settlements Programme, said that over 8,000 homes are destroyed or badly damaged, as are some 1,200 in the city of Fallujah.
ReliefWeb
February 11, 2018
WHO supported Al Anbar DOH with a consignment of 139 wheelchairs distributed through WHO local implementing partner DARY to in-need persons in the IDP camps of Central Bzebiz, Amriate Al-Fallujah, Al-Khaldia central camp, and Khaldiat Al-Samood camp. The wheelchair consignment was fundedÃâà...
National Geographic
November 21, 2017
They'd prepared for this, but the high-intensity situation was not the happy, California afternoon training sessions at Camp Pendleton. Dowling ... Dowling and Rex, which were partnered together at Camp Pendleton, were one of the first to arrive. ... Marine Corps dog teams pose at Camp Fallujah in 2004.
KJCT8.com
November 19, 2017
15, 2004, during The Second Battle of Fallujah, that Sgt. Lovato was trying to retrieve the remains of a fallen comrade. "There was so much smoke we couldn't see anything," Sgt. Lovato recalls. It was a situation that, four years earlier, this Montrose native could never have imagined. His original plan wasÃâà...
NPR
November 1, 2017
In June 2016, I was at the camp reporting for the PBS NewsHour on the battle to retake Fallujah from ISIS, when a teenage boy walked toward me on his crutches. He needed colostomy bags and catheter tubes. He told me he'd been treated in the United States, but had outgrown the prosthetic leg that hadÃâà...
ABC Online
September 10, 2017
The jihadist militants systemically destroyed much of the public infrastructure in the 40 per cent of Iraq that they occupied; whole neighbourhoods in Fallujah were made unliveable, 80 per cent of neighbouring Ramadi was flattened and West Mosul was all but wiped out in fighting. The Iraqi Government hasÃâà...
The Jewish Voice
December 31, 1999
Ten members of jihadist cell who planned to attack Jewish institutions in Spain sentenced to 8-12 years in jail. Ten members of a jihadist cell linked to the Islamic State group (ISIS) who planned to attack Jewish institutions in Spain were sentenced to 8-12 years in jail on Tuesday, AFP reported.
ReliefWeb
December 31, 1999
In Fallujah, I was touched by seeing people with amputated limbs learning to walk again at the ICRC-supported physical rehabilitation centre. However, I also met an all-female family in a camp in Anbarwho told me that they cannot return home. Their male relatives are all either detained or missing and theyÃâà...
ReliefWeb
December 31, 1999
Meanwhile, reports of forced returns remain ongoing, with at least 155 families sent from Ameriyat al Fallujah camp back to Al-Qaim district this month. In Jordan, the first humanitarian aid was delivered to the at least 50,000 residents of the berm's informal Rukban settlement following a six-month hiatus,Ãâà...
JTAC News
December 31, 1999
A Rohingya family, Burmese Muslims, live in the Thay Chaung camp for the Internally Displaced outside of Sittwe, which houses nearly 3000 people, November 23, 2015. The mother, pictured here, claimed all ... “In 2004 was the first time I was kidnapped in Fallujah, Iraq. Which was a Sunni stronghold andÃâà...
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