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DoD Announces Army Soldiers as Whereabouts Unknown
The Department of Defense announced today the identities of four soldiers listed as Duty Status Whereabouts Unknown (DUSTWUN) while supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They have been unaccounted for since May 12 in Al Taqa, Iraq, when their patrol was attacked by enemy forces using automatic fire and explosives. They are assigned to the 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, N.Y.
Reported as DUSTWUN are:
Sgt. Anthony J. Schober, 23, of Reno, Nev.
Spc. Alex R. Jimenez, 25, of Lawrence, Mass.
Pfc. Joseph J. Anzack Jr., 20, of Torrance, Calif.
Pvt. Byron W. Fouty, 19, of Waterford, Mich.
Search and recovery efforts are ongoing, and the incident is under investigation.
Our thoughts and prayers are also with the 10th Mountain family on the loss of their Heroes SFC Connell, SPC Courneya and PFC Murphy and on the continued search for their missing brothers.
John Noonan, a U.S. Air Force captain blogger who declined to be further identified, said, "Officers will just say you can't blog because that is the safest way to do it. It will have a chilling effect."
Blogger captain? I wonder if that's like Field Marshall. Anyway, when do I get my check?
I know this isn't "military" but I'll bet the boys flying those whirlybirds were... still might be (Reserve or Guard)...
Check it out... HERE
h/t Cathy at Call Me Grandma
Rohan Gunaratna told a security conference at Lloyd's of London insurance market that Iraq, like Afghanistan in the 1990s, would become a "terrorist Disneyland" where al Qaeda could build up its strength unchallenged.If U.S., British and other coalition troops withdrew from Iraq in the next year, he said, "certainly the scale of attacks that would be mounted inside Iraq, and using Iraq as a launching pad to strike other Western countries -- countries in Europe, North America - would become such that after two or three years, the U.S. forces will have to go back to Iraq."
I'm not sure what to make of experts stating the obvious...or Reuters actually reporting the obvious.
A "Coast Guard expert" tells Congress it has its priorities for maritime security mixed up:
Members of Congress should be more concerned about the threat of terrorists using mines and small boats to attack multiple U.S. ports and disrupt the economy, according to a U.S. Coast Guard expert.Well, of course, the concern over shipping containers allows for Congressional show boat attacks on Wal-Mart and other businesses, whereas concerns over mines and small boats means you have to deal with real threats.Lawmakers should grant more funding to port surveillance to counter the threat, Guy Thomas, science and technology adviser for maritime domain awareness at the Coast Guard, said in an interview.
Instead, lawmakers are focusing port security spending on scanning shipping containers for a nuclear bomb, which most experts in the Coast Guard and intelligence community agree should be less of a priority than maritime domain awareness, he said.
More here.
And the elder Griffin has been pressed by many of his friends and colleagues in Southern California to join the ranks of the antiwar movement and use the story of his son's death to help end the war. "They just don't seem to understand or accept that my son loved the Army—that the Army saved him in many ways—and that the thing he hated the most was politics getting in the way of finding real solutions for the Iraqis."
Sounds like some other people need a butt kicking too.
This is criminal:
Despite requests from his family members, the Army erased Griffin's laptop hard drive before returning it to them. It's done for security, officials said, but it also erases pictures and writings. Deletions are done by the military on a case-by-case basis, "but a lot of people buy recovery software and get some of the files back," an Army official offered.Someone needs their ass seriously kicked.
This ranks among the finest stories I've seen come from this war.
I've never meant this more: read the whole thing. To excerpt would diminish that which justice demands be full.
Allow yourself a few moments afterward to recover and ponder the question where do we find such men?, then recommit yourself to carry on.
BAGHDAD -- The capture of thousands of new suspects under the three-month-old Baghdad security plan has overwhelmed the Iraqi government's detention system, forcing hundreds of people into overcrowded facilities, according to Iraqi and Western officials.
The capture of thousands of barbaric murdering thugs has resulted in 'overcrowding'. I 've got a cure for this menace...it's called the gallows. Hang the lot of them...it will solve the 'overcrowding'.
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