Central Command News - 5/8/07

AIRPOWER SUMMARY FOR MAY 6

Posted: 07 May 2007 02:25 PM CDT

POTENTIAL BUSINESS INVESTORS ARRIVE IN IRAQ

Posted: 07 May 2007 02:22 PM CDT

OPERATION EAGLE TRIUMPH II DETAINS 40, FINDS CACHE

Posted: 07 May 2007 02:19 PM CDT

IRAQI SPECIAL FORCES DETAIN NINE SUSPECTED AL-QAEDA MEMBERS NEAR BALAD

Posted: 07 May 2007 09:04 AM CDT

TALIBAN MILITANTS, FACILITATORS DETAINED IN ZABUL

Posted: 07 May 2007 08:57 AM CDT

FIFTEEN SUSPECTED TERRORISTS DETAINED

Posted: 07 May 2007 08:02 AM CDT

ABP STOPS SUICIDE BOMBER NEAR PAKISTAN BORDER

Posted: 07 May 2007 07:57 AM CDT

COALITION FORCES FIND TORTURE ROOM, DESTROY WEAPONS CACHE IN SADR CITY
Posted: 07 May 2007 07:47 AM CDT

IRAQI POLICE HEADQUARTERS ATTACKED BY SVBEID

Posted: 07 May 2007 07:44 AM CDT

IRAQI POLICE, MND-B TROOPS RESPOND TO CAR BOMB IN SOUTHWEST BAGHDAD

Posted: 07 May 2007 07:37 AM CDT

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Vanguard engineers pave way for victory ‘from the sky’.aspx
Posted: 08 May 2007 07:11 AM CDT

Kirkuk Police Academy takes training to a new level.aspx
Posted: 08 May 2007 07:07 AM CDT

Iraqi, U.S. officials discuss way forward.aspx
Posted: 08 May 2007 07:05 AM CDT

Spartan Sappers Secure Area of Operation.aspx
Posted: 08 May 2007 07:02 AM CDT

Airmen continue humanitarian efforts in Djibouti.aspx
Posted: 08 May 2007 06:52 AM CDT

Plan in motion to restore Haifa Street.aspx

Posted: 07 May 2007 02:15 PM CDT

BAGHDAD — On Sunday, a U.S. Army official addressed members of the Iraqi media in regards to revitalizing Haifa Street.

Water Tops Priorities for Kirkuk’s Rural Majority.aspx

Posted: 07 May 2007 02:09 PM CDT

HAWIJAH, Iraq, May 7, 2007 — Subsistence farmers are the dominant majority in southern portions of the Kirkuk Province. Most of those rely on water from the lower Zaab River to irrigate crops. Inadequate rainfall and water levels in the Zaab’s primary water source, the northern Dokan Dam, are creating concerns among that rural majority. Soldiers of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team’s 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment “Wolfhounds” are helping ensure that those concerns get addressed.

Wolfhounds Work To Secure Economic Success.aspx

Posted: 07 May 2007 02:04 PM CDT

HAWIJAH, Iraq, May 7, 2007 — The local government approves a building project and provides the land. Local businesses supply the materials. Residents perform the work, and the community reaps the short-term and long-term economic benefits.

Institutional Competence Slow, But Growing, General Says.aspx

Posted: 07 May 2007 02:02 PM CDT

WASHINGTON, May 7, 2007 – Coalition experts have identified trouble areas in the training regimen for the Iraqi security forces but see cumulative progress overall, the top U.S. training official in Iraq said.

Iraqis Can Move Forward as Surge Takes Hold, General Says.aspx

Posted: 07 May 2007 02:00 PM CDT

WASHINGTON, May 7, 2007 – Eighty percent of the U.S. military units involved with the surge of troops into Baghdad and western Iraq are now in place, a senior U.S. military officer said in Baghdad yesterday.