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    Task Force Liberty News Briefs August 24

    KIRKUK, IRAQ

    08.25.2005

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    Iraqi army distribute flyers
    JALULA, Iraq -- Soldiers of the 3-2-5 Iraqi Army Battalion distributed flyers to the residents of Jalula and As Sadiyah August 13 letting the people in both cities know that the Iraqi Security Forces will be taking the lead in security for the upcoming elections.
    (278th RCT Security)

    Coalition Forces provide first aid
    TUZ, Iraq -- Soldiers of the 278th Regimental Combat Team assisted in providing first aid and traffic control to multiple victims of a head on traffic accident near the city of Tuz August 5 while returning from a combat patrol. The Soldiers provided first aid until the Iraqi ambulance arrived.
    (278th RCT Essential Services)

    Dedication and ribbon cutting ceremony
    AL-SADAY, Iraq -- Over 250 Iraqi citizens organized and attended a dedication ceremony celebrating the completion of the modernized Al-Arabee school August 7. After the ribbon cutting ceremony, Sheik Raad Majeed Abbass, the head of the City Council, exclaimed "Our citizens are content and our children will have it better than we did." The $80,000 refurbishments of the Al-Arabee school will allow 300 children to learn in a healthy environment.
    (3rd BCT Essential Services)

    IMN TV COPS
    KIRKUK, Iraq -- Col. Jasim Kano, the Aruba Police Chief, denounced the recent assassinations of CPT Ibrahim Saeed Rashid, a counter-terrorism team member responsible for the security at IMN TV and his wife on the IMN TV's Monday night "COPS" show August 22 and added the importance of every citizen reporting suspicious activity to the nearest Joint Coordination Center. Col. Jasim pointed out that, under Saddam's regime, assassinations became common place, but today, under democracy, those who insist on continuing the old ways of assassination and other terrorists activities will go the way of Saddam, imprisoned and facing a dark future. Photos of a weapons cache discovered at a local school, which currently serves as a voter registration site, was also shown.
    (116th BCT Communication)

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    Date Taken: 08.25.2005
    Date Posted: 08.25.2005 17:23
    Story ID: 2832
    Location: KIRKUK, IQ

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