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No. 806-08 September 23, 2008 DoD Identifies Army Casualty
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Chaplain (Col.) Sidney J. Marceaux Jr., 69, of Beaumont, Texas, died Sept 14th at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C., from a non-combat related illness. Following evacuation from Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, he was assigned to the Warrior Transition Brigade, Walter Reed Army Medical Center. For more information media may contact the Walter Reed Army Medical Center public affairs office at (202) 782-7500 or (202) 782-7131.
No. 805-08 September 23, 2008 DoD Identifies Army Casualty
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
Capt. Bruno G. Desolenni, 32, of Crescent City, Calif., died September 20th in Kandahar, Afghanistan, of wounds sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle. He was assigned to the Joint Forces Headquarters, Element Training Team, Oregon Army National Guard. For more information related to this release, the media may contact the Oregon Army National Guard public affairs office at (503) 584-3886.
No. 803-08 September 23, 2008 DoD Identifies Navy Casualty
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a sailor who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Cryptologic Technician Third Class Petty Officer Matthew J. O'Bryant, 22, of Duluth, Ga., died September 20th in the bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan. O'Bryant was assigned to the Navy Information Operations Command Maryland, Fort Meade, Md. For further information related to this release, please contact Naval Network Warfare Command at (757) 417-6796.
Pakistan: On Ground Updates Pakistan Leaders Barely Missed Attack Monday, September 22, 2008.
* IHT.com is reporting the following news this Monday morning and it starts off like this... Pakistan's president, prime minister and other members of the country's leadership were due to hold a dinner in the Marriott Hotel... Sunday... but changed the venue at the last minute before a deadly truck bomb exploded at the entrance to the hotel, killing 53 people, a senior Interior Ministry official said Monday... Read the restHERE . * CNNMoney.com has this take on the above news... Marriott: No Official Dinner Planned On Day Of Islamabad Blast . * Meanwhile-- VOANEWS.com reports... Officials in Pakistan and Afghanistan say unidentified gunmen have kidnapped Afghanistan's consul-general in northwestern Pakistan. An Afghan consulate official says the gunmen ambushed Haji Abdul Khaliq Farahi Monday as he traveled home in Peshawar... The kidnappers were disguised as beggars when they stopped the Afghan diplomat's car on a bridge in the Hayyatabad residential area. Farahi's driver was killed in the assault... Farahi was due to become Afghanistan's next ambassador to Pakistan... Read more at the following link... Top Afghan Diplomat Abducted in Pakistan . * MWCNews.net reports... More than 150 civilian labourers have been abducted in western Afghanistan after suspected Taliban fighters stopped their convoy, an army colonel and provincial governor have said...The workers were travelling on Sunday through Farah province in three buses hired by a local construction company when they were stopped at a checkpoint, the officials said..."About 156 workers who were travelling in three buses were captured by Taliban Sunday and are still being held by them," Farooq Na'emi, the army colonel, said... No group has yet claimed responsibility for the abductions... Read the rest at the link below... Scores 'abducted by Afghan Taliban' . * IHT.com also has this report out today... Pakistani troops and tribesmen opened fire when two U.S. helicopters crossed into the country from Afghanistan, intelligence officials said Monday... The incident, which the officials said happened late Sunday in North Waziristan, occurred as the country struggled to respond to a suicide bombing at a luxury hotel in the capital that killed at least 53... The Pakistani Army and the U.S. military in Afghanistan said they had no information on the reported incursion, which was likely to add to tensions between Islamabad and Washington... More on this at the following link below... U.S. helicopters reportedly cross into Pakistan
. ***************************************** . Two DOD service members die in Marriott hotel terrorist attack in Islamabad
. Press Release by: CENTCOM Public Affairs
Mac Dill AFB, Fla. (Sept. 21, 2008) – Two DOD service members, assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, died from wounds received during a terrorist attack on the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan on September 20th.
The names of the service members are being withheld pending notification of the next of kin and release by the Department of Defense.
No. 800-08 September 22, 2008 DoD Identifies Army Casualties
The Department of Defense announced today the death of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.They died September 20th in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when their vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device. They were assigned to the 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Hood, Texas.
Killed were: Staff Sgt. Nathan M. Cox, 32, of Walcott, Iowa Pvt. Joseph F. Gonzales, 18, of Tucson, Ariz.
For more information media may contact the Fort Hood public affairs office at (254) 287-9993; after hours at (254) 291-2591.
No. 799-08 September 22, 2008 DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Sgt. Jerome C. Bell Jr., 29, of Auburn, N.Y., died September 19th while supporting combat operations in Farah province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Twentynine Palms, Calif. For additional background information on this Marine, news media representatives may contact the 1st Marine Division public affairs office at (760) 763-5397.
No. 798-08 September 22, 2008 DoD Identifies Army Casualty
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Staff Sgt. Brandon W. Farley, 30, of Haworth, Okla., died September 18th at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, of wounds sustained September 17th when his mounted patrol was attacked by enemy forces using small arms and rocket-propelled grenades in Able Monti, Afghanistan. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Hood, Texas. For more information related to this release, the media may contact the Fort Hood public affairs office at (254) 287-9993; after hours (254) 291-2591.
No. 797-08 September 22, 2008 DoD Identifies Army Causalities
The Department of Defense announced today the death of four soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. They died September 17th in Gerdia Seria, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when their vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device.
Killed were: Sgt. Joshua W. Harris, 21, of Romeoville, Ill., who was assigned to the 2nd Battalion 122nd Field Artillery, Illinois Army National Guard, Robbins, Ill. Capt. Bruce E. Hays, 42, of Cheyenne, Wyo., who was assigned to the Wyoming Joint Forces Headquarters, Wyoming Army National Guard, Cheyenne, Wyo. 1st Lt. Mohsin A. Naqvi, 26, of Newburgh, N.Y., who was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 11th Infantry, Fort Benning, Ga. Staff Sgt. Jason A. Vazquez, 24, of Chicago, Ill., who was assigned to the 2nd Battalion 122nd Field Artillery, Illinois Army National Guard, Sycamore, Ill.
-For more information on Harris and Vazquez, media may contact the Illinois National Guard public affairs office at (217) 761-3569. -For more information on Hays, media may contact the Wyoming National Guard public affairs office at (307) 772-5253. -For more information on Naqvi, media may contact the Fort Benning public affairs office at (706) 545-3512.
No. 795-08 September 22, 2008 DoD Identifies Air Force Casualty
The Department of Defense announced today the death of an airman who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Maj. Rodolfo I. Rodriguez, 34, of El Paso, Texas, died September 20th in Islamabad, Pakistan, of wounds suffered from an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 86th Construction & Training Squadron, Ramstein Air Base, Germany. For further information related to this release, please contact the Ramstein Air Base public affairs office at 49-6371-47-9196.
Israel/Iran: On Ground Updates Iran on its way to having Nuclear Bomb Sunday, September 21, 2008
* JPost.com brings us this troubling news today and it starts off like this...Iran is halfway to a nuclear bomb, and Hizbullah, Hamas and Syria are using this period of relative calm to significantly rearm, Brig.-Gen. Yossi Baidatz, the Military Intelligence's head of research, told the cabinet Sunday during a particularly gloomy briefing on the threats facing the country... Baidatz said there was a growing gap between Iran's progress on the nuclear front and the West's determination to stop it. "Iran is concentrating on uranium enrichment, and is making progress," he said, noting that they have improved the function of their 4,000 centrifuges... According to Baidatz, the Iranian centrifuges have so far produced between one-third to one-half of the enriched material needed to build a bomb... "The time when they will have crossed the nuclear point-of-no-return is fast approaching," he said, though he stopped short of giving a firm deadline. Last week in the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, however, he put the date at 2011... Read the rest of this troubling news at link below... 'Iran halfway to first nuclear bomb' . * YNetNews.com has the following report and it goes in part like this..."Iran is focusing its efforts in enriching uranium and improving the operational capabilities of its centrifuges. It is mastering the necessary technology and now has one-third of what it need to create a bomb..."In view of the UN Security Council's inability to enforce a fourth round of sanctions, Iran's confidence is increasing and they now believe there is nothing the international community can do to stop them. Time is on Iran's side," he warned... Read the rest at link below... Military Intelligence official: Iran underway to having nuclear bomb
Pakistan: On Ground Updates Pakistani Government Blames al Qaeda for Deadly Blast outside Marriott Hotel in Islamabad Sunday, September 21, 2008
* RadioAustralia.net.au reports... The Pakistani Government is blaming al Qaeda operatives for a deadly blast outside the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad... Dramatic footage of Saturday night's attack broadcast on Pakistan television shows the carnage could have been far worse... The attacker failed to get through a secondary barrier when he crashed his explosives laden truck into the hotel's security gates... Read the rest at link below... Pakistan blames al Qaeda for bombing . *The About.com website has this take on the news and it starts off like this...The message from Saturday's gruesome suicide bombing of the Marriott in Islamabad was clear: Pervez Musharraf is no longer around to use his martial law and other tactics against terrorists; Asif Ali Zardari is in power, and al-Qaida and the Taliban are telling him to change course now... Read the rest at link below... Death Toll Climbs in Pakistan Marriott Bombing . * MyNews.in reports...The scale of the attack bore tell-tale signs of al-Qaeda network, which is closely linked with the Pakistani Taliban waging a bloody insurgency in the country, US intelligence officials were quoted as saying a day after the massive truck bombing shook the heart of Islamabad... Read the full report at link below... Al Qaeda suspected of Pak's Marriott bombing; 60 dead
CCTV Film Footage of Bombing Released News Video posted on YouTube by Pakistani Politics . ************************ . (From U.S. Department of State) Press Statement Sean McCormack Washington, DC Saturday, September 20, 2008
Terrorist Attack in Islamabad, Pakistan
We condemn the heinous attack on the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad that has left more than 40 dead and many more injured. We extend our deepest sympathy and condolences to the Pakistani people, and we are ready to assist in any way possible during this difficult time. . This barbaric attack comes during the month of Ramadan, only underscoring that those responsible have no respect for the principles of their faith. This strike to the heart of the Pakistani capital leaves no doubt as to the intentions of these extremist elements. Their goal is to create mayhem and weaken the institutions of government so that they may operate unfettered while spreading their intolerance. The United States will continue to stand with the Pakistani people and their democratically-elected government as it confronts this scourge. . Among those killed was at least one American citizen; several others have been injured. We are in the process of notifying next of kin and offering our condolences and assistance at this time. . 2008/754
***************************************** . The next front in the War on Terror is NOT going to be Afghanistan. It’s going to be Pakistan. And give it a year or so of heavy fighting, with lots of people killed in the process... and you can bet your last dollar that the Dems will find a way to TRY to turn tail and Cut and RUN on this part of the war also. . We can not afford one single day of an Obama-Biden Presidency. NOT ONE! . We need experience in the White House... WE NEED JOHN MCCAIN Not an Anti-War... Anti- American like Obama!!!
No. 806-08 September 23, 2008
