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Photos From Iraq
Photos by Richard Ambo
Advertiser Staff Photographer
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Posted on: Monday, April 5, 2004
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A member of the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps from the Huwijah battalion examines used combat boots offered to the ICDC while new boots are on order. The battalion still needs more uniforms and other basic items. See story. |
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Rat B. finds a resting place next to a 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment soldier's gear. The puppy was adopted by the battalion's Charlie Company, 2nd Platoon, otherwise known as the "Rats." See story. |
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Maj. Jasim Yunis Hamed, an ICDC officer from the Al Huwijah battalion, says that despite the dangers of working with coalition forces, being in the ICDC is a good job that provides for his families and helps to build a better Iraq. See story. |
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Maj. Jasim Yunis Hamed holds one of many threatening leaflets dropped at ICDC headquarters and Iraqi police stations in Al Huwijah. The leaflets say that Iraqi police and ICDC should leave the area when the Mujahadeen is fighting the Coalition Forces because could get killed. It is an implicit message that anyone who cooperates with the Coalition will get killed. See story. |
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ICDC members stand attention during the recent transfer-of-authority ceremony at Kirkuk Air Base. See story. |
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The ICDC has been likened to an Iraqi National Guard. See story. |
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ICDC officers from the Al Huwijah battalion have a staff meeting, American style, with 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment liason Cpt. Victor Olshansky. See story. |
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Posted on: Wednesday, March 31, 2004
| A field ambulance stands by after a rocket exploded in a military housing area at Kirkuk Air Base, injuring 11 Schofield Barracks soldiers. See story. |
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Posted on: Monday, March 29, 2004
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Col. Lloyd Miles, commander of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, places his hand on his chest, an Arab gesture of sincerity, after a meeting with the mayor of Riyadh, a town about 40 miles southwest of Kirkuk, Iraq. See story. |
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Cups of Chai tea in hand, Arab leaders from Riyadh listen to Col. Lloyd Miles, the Schofield-based brigade commander, offer a new working relationship with the former Baath party figures. See story. |
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In Riyadh, Iraq, ex-Baathists complain about charges that they are terrorists. Baathists "are the cream of the crop" in Iraq, one Arab said. See story. |
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Prayer beads slip through the fingers of a former Baath party member as he listens to the 2nd Brigade's Col. Lloyd Miles issue a stern call for the end of violence in the Riyadh, Iraq, region. Miles charged that insurgents are receiving support from people in the area. See story. |
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Posted on: Wednesday, March 24, 2004
| First Lt. John Song of Mililani, left, and Sgt. Nolan Heanu serve together with the 25th Infantry Division (Light) in a mountainous region of Iraq, just across the border from Iran — about as far from home as one can get. At left is the Kurdish flag, at right the Iraqi flag. See story. |
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| Capt. Bill Venable, commander of Company C, 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, examines a blood-stained seat from a car in which two Iraqi police officers were killed yesterday in a drive-by shooting at a busy intersection in Kirkuk. See story. |
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Posted on: Tuesday, March 23, 2004
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Sgt. Jose Faulk, of Wai'anae, and the 2-11 Field Artillery Regiment, gives a final salute for Pfc. Ernest "Happy" Sutphin, who was killed in a Humvee accident in Al Huwija, Iraq. Faulk was also injured in the accident. See story. |
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The memorial for Pfc. Ernest Sutphin included his boots and a photo of the soldier who was called "Happy" because of his "goofy smile." See story. |
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Soldiers from Company A, 1-27 Infantry Regiment, salute during the playing of taps at a memorial service for Pfc. Ernest Sutphin, an artillery forward observer who was attached to their unit and died from injuries after the Humvee he was riding in rolled over. See story. |
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