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Truthdig
March 8, 2018
An Iraqi prisoner of war comforts his 4-year-old son at a regroupment center for POWs near An Najaf after the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq. (Jean-Marc Bouju / AP). Daniel Ellsberg has a message that managers of the warfare state don't want people to hear. “If you have information that bears on deception orÃâà...
We Are The Mighty (blog)
February 13, 2018
A U.S. soldier performs a security patrol outside An Najaf cemetery where Anti-Iraqi Forces have recently launched attacks at Multi-National Forces. The patrol's focus was on finding weapons caches, Improvised Explosive Devises (I.E.D.s), and Anti-Iraqi Forces that might be hiding in tombs or catacombsÃâà...
York Daily Record/Sunday News
February 7, 2018
They had been sent to An Najaf to prepare for the assault on the city, Douglas said, and the colonel decided to “check out” the perimeter of town. They came into enemy “contact” almost immediately, and he said that is where Martin amazed him once again. They were taking sniper fire, but no one couldÃâà...
South Platte Sentinel
November 14, 2017
Will's first deployment took him to Iraq in July of 2004 and his first taste of combat was in the city of An-Najaf where a three-month fire fight broke out only days after his unit arrived. Will said he was constantly in a state of high alert and always on the lookout for improvised explosive devices (I.E.D's) thatÃâà...
Belleville News-Democrat
November 7, 2017
Marj Santhuff, 53, of St. Louis, was filing rough edges off a bronze Humvee statue about the size of a tissue box. She's recreating one of her missions in An Najaf, Iraq. Her advance unit had been sent to “lay down fire” so U.S. tanks could pass through the city without being hit by rocket-propelled grenades.
Communities Digital News
October 15, 2017
Stephen Mount and Crew on board during Battle at An Najaf, Iraq, 2004. Photo Courtesy US Marine Corps; Lt. Col. Stephen Mount holding his bullet-ridden helmet from Battle at An Najaf, Iraq 2004. Camp Pendleton, Calif. Photo by Jeanne McKinney; Lt. Col. Stephen Mount artificial eye with Maltese crossÃâà...
Christian Post
October 13, 2017
The book also tells the story of a 33-year-old Iraqi male referred to by the name of "Sami." Sami, along with his friends, encountered a group of extremists one day when they took a wrong turn while driving to An-Najaf. Sami and his friends were abducted and blindfolded. After three days, they were placed inÃâà...
Task & Purpose
August 7, 2014
This month marks the 10-year anniversary of some of the fiercest and deadliest fighting of the entire war in Iraq. Throughout the month of August in 2004, American forces battled Shiite cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr's Jaish Al Mahdi militia throughout the buildings, streets, and world's largest cemetery of An NajafÃâà...
