Wednesday, July 19, 2006

FOB COURAGE TO BE TURNED OVER TO IRAQI GOVERNMENT

(More Progress being made in Iraq and the MSM will probably not even mention it.)

Task Force Band of Brothers will turn over control of the former Saddam Hussein presidential compound here to Iraqi government officials in a ceremony in Mosul July 20. The Mosul VIP Residence site, built over 2.2 square kilometers and completed in 1994, contained Saddam Hussein's northernmost presidential site and includes several palaces and VIP residences, three lakes, and man-made waterfalls. According to the complex’s pre-war caretaker, it was built for Saddam Hussein’s son, Qusay. Apparently, neither Hussein nor his sons actually stayed there. Read story in full at CENTCOM
Heads-up by CENTCOM CCPA Electronic Media
Spc. Patrick A. Ziegler - Spc. Chris Erickson - 1Lt. Anthony Deiss

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