IRAQ: UNITED STATES FORCES TRANSFER SECURITY OF THE HOLY SHI'ITE CITY OF NAJAF TO IRAQIS WHILE THOUGHTS ARE WITH FRIEND BACK HOME

Record ID: 338243

  • Title: IRAQ: UNITED STATES FORCES TRANSFER SECURITY OF THE HOLY SHI'ITE CITY OF NAJAF TO IRAQIS WHILE THOUGHTS ARE WITH FRIEND BACK HOME
  • Date: 20th September 2005
  • Summary: (BN10) NAJAF, IRAQ (SEPTEMBER 6, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. SLV IRAQI ARMY STANDING AT ATTENTION; SLV COMMANDER CALLING ON IRAQI ARMY TO STAND AT ATTENTION, STAND AT EASE; SLV U.S. FORCES LOWERING FLAG; U.S. SOLDIERS FOLDING FLAG (VARIOUS) 0.38 (BN11) NAJAF, IRAQ (SEPTEMBER 6, 2005) (REUTERS) 2. SLV US SOLDIERS IN A US BASE IN THE SOUTHER HOLY CITY OF NAJAF/ IRAQI FLAG WRAPED ON A POLE; SLV US SOLDIERS CHATTING 0.41 3. (SOUNDBITE) (English) LIEUTENANT DOUGLAS OF THE US FORCES: "I know how hard it is for these soldiers from New Orleans and the gulf coast, and these are very trying times for the regiment." 0.48 4. WIDE OF BASE 0.50 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 5th October 2005 13:00
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  • Location: NAJAF, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVAX94EHENABX3UENSINQ412S02
  • Story Text: U.S. forces transfer security of the holy Shi'ite
    city of Najaf to Iraqis while thoughts are with friends back home.



    U.S. forces on Tuesday (September 6, 2005) handed
    over the control of Forward Operating Base (FOB) in Najaf to the
    Iraqi security forces.

    By handing over the FOB, security responsibility in
    Najaf passes to the Iraqis, part of the plan for gradually
    turning over control of territory as Iraqi forces become
    capable of handling security operations.

    Many of the U.S troops based in Najaf are from the
    areas worst hit by hurricane Katrina.

    "I know how hard it is for these soldiers from New
    Orleans and the gulf coast, and these are very trying times
    for the regiment", said Lieutenant Douglas.

    New Orleans was slowly turning back the floodwaters as
    engineers fixed a major break in the protective levees
    ruptured by Hurricane Katrina, a calamity the mayor says
    may have killed 10,000.

    More than a million people may have been driven from
    their homes, many perhaps permanently, with hundreds of
    thousands of evacuees taking refuge in shelters, hotels and
    private homes across the country following one of America's
    worst natural disasters.



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