Monday, 15 September 2008 |
BAGHDAD — Iraqi Army (IA) Soldiers partnered with Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers conducted a humanitarian assistance (HA) drop in the northwestern Baghdad neighborhood of Shulla, Sept. 10. Iraqi security forces (ISF) and Coalition forces (CF) have conducted numerous HA drops throughout Shulla, but this one was unique because it was planned and executed by the IA with minimal CF oversight. “It is crazy to think that just a few months ago this place was completely off limits to Coalition and Iraqi forces,” said Staff Sgt. Perry Transue, while watching his platoon pull security for the event. “If you had asked me a few months ago if I’d be standing in the streets of Shulla watching the IA conducting operations this soon after the hostilities, I would have said, no.” The IA has improved exponentially since the Strike troops took over the area in November 2007, said Transue. “It is great to be given the opportunity to supply all these people with food, but this is just a small sample of the things we [the Iraqi Army] want to accomplish here in Shulla,” said Iraqi Army Maj. Muhammad. “We still need to clean the streets of trash, repair the streets, and provide better medical services to the residents of Shulla.” |
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CAMP SPEICHER — Tomorrow’s Multi-National Force - Iraq change of command also signifies a shift in the Coalition mission in the country, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said while en route to Iraq to participate in the ceremony. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, who has commanded forces here since February 2007, will turn the reins over to Army Gen. Ray Odierno. Petraeus will become commander of U.S. Central Command on Oct. 31. |
FOB LOYALTY — Justice and the institution of law in Iraq took a large step forward recently when Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki officially opened a new courthouse in the Rusafa District of eastern Baghdad. Iraqi Chief Justice Medhat al-Mahmoud, along with Ryan Crocker, the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, and Gen. David Petraeus, the outgoing commanding general of Multi-National Force – Iraq, joined al-Maliki and other distinguished visitors for the courthouse grand opening. |
WASHINGTON — When security responsibility for Iraq’s Anbar province was turned over to the Iraqi government this month, it validated the security model that has been applied throughout the country, a Coalition spokesman said Sept. 11. Successful coordination of a surge in U.S. forces, the emergence of the Awakening movement, and political movement by the Iraqi government resulted in the weakening of the al Qaida in Iraq terrorist network into a more containable scattering of individual cells, said Rear Adm. Patrick Driscoll, director of strategic communications, Multi-National Force - Iraq. |
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