Dispatches From the Front, Tue 26 Sep. 2006

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Sean Sides looks out over the wing of an F-16D Fighting Falcon aircraft during a training flight over Kunsan Air Base, South Korea, Sept. 18, 2006. Sides, a photographer, is in the aircraft to take aerial photographs of the mission. DoD photo by Senior Airman Sean Sides, U.S. Air Force. (Released)

Cmdr. Kevin Torske, U.S. Navy, a senior forensic odontologist, catalogs the dental remains of a possible service member at the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command headquarters at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, on Sept. 21, 2006. The mission of the command is to achieve the fullest possible accounting of all Americans missing as a result of the nation's past conflicts. DoD photo by Cpl. James P. Johnson, U.S. Army. (Released)

NEWSBYTES

Letter Exposes New Leader in Al-Qa`ida High Command
25 September 2006
(CENTCOM) -- On 7 June 2006, American military forces executed an air strike on an al-Qa`ida safe-house near Baqouba, Iraq, killing Abu Mus’ab al-Zarqawi, al-Qa`ida‘s commander in Iraq. U.S. and Iraqi forces subsequently acquired numerous documents from that safe-house. On 18 September 2006, the Iraqi National Security Advisor, Muwaffaq al-Rabi`i, released one of those documents to Iraqi media. As part of an ongoing collaboration with the Department of Defense to declassify, collect, and disseminate documents that provide new insights into the internal functioning of salafi-jihadist organizations, the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point has made this letter available at http://ctc.usma.edu.

Gen. John Abizaid: Fortunately, Al Qaeda’s ideology has not gone mainstream yet
By Thomas Cromwell
Diplomatic Traffic - http://www.diplomatictraffic.com/highlights.asp?ID=164
25 September 2006

EXTREMISTS SHOW NO REMORSE FOR AFGHAN CITIZENS
KABUL, Afghanistan (CENTCOM) -- In three separate incidents in northeastern Afghanistan recently, extremists attacked a mosque, fired rocket propelled grenades at a medical clinic and fired inside a village injuring Afghan children.

24TH MEU HARRIERS COMPLETE COMBAT RUNS IN AFGHANISTAN
ABOARD USS IWO JIMA (CENTCOM) -- The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit’s AV-8B Harriers flew the last of 136 combat missions over Afghanistan Sept. 21, ending a short but productive stint in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

COALITION FORCES KILL 10 TALIBAN REBELS IN PAKTIKA PROVINCE
BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan (CENTCOM) -- While conducting offensive operations during Operation Mountain Fury, U.S. forces killed 10 Taliban fighters in Paktika Province on Sept. 25.

Video: Communications Marines Setup System at Camp Fallujah
Package about Marines setting up a communications system in Camp Fallujah. Produced by Cpl. Lynn Murillo.

Video: Freedom Watch Afghanistan Sept 22
Stories on the Bagram Provincial Reconstruction Team making plans to pave a road linking key districts throughout Afghanistan and Coalition Forces promoting Children's Day in southeastern Afghanistan by donating backpacks and school supplies.

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