European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 9, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 3 Dod announces plans to Send 10 brigades to Iraq officials gis will deploy Between August and Decem Jer by Jeff Schogol stars and stripes troops with the 2nd 1st a Mored based in Baum and the 2nd cavalry regi ment Stryker out of will be among soldiers slated to deploy next to according to the defense depart the Dod announced tues Day that 10 army brigades would head to Iraq Between August and de the 2nd Cav Alry regiment troops Are expected to deploy to Iraq in while the 1st a Mored division troops Are slated to go at the end of novem said army spokesman Carl during its last the 2nd 1st armoured Divi Sion served As a Cal Forward first in Kuwait and then about 934 sol Diers from the National guard and army Reserve also will de in support of the 10 Bri by the deployments come after the army lengthened Tours in the Central command to 15 months to give soldiers a full year at corrections in the May 8 a have indicated he is a f should have identified source department of defense the defense depart ment wants to give Active duty troops two months off for every month they Are Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman repeatedly declined to answer reporters questions tues Day on whether the deployments would keep the Overall troop presence in Iraq at 20 he cautioned reporters that it would be inac curate to con clude from news of the deploy ments that the buildup of forces in Iraq known As the surge had been but the move would give com Manders the ability to keep 20 brigades in Iraq through the end of the Whitman All five extra surge Bri Gades Are expected to arrive in Iraq by defense officials also have said the 13th Marine expedition Ary unit has received orders to deploy to Kuwait and then Iraq As the next Cal Forward replacing the 15th the commanding general of forces in Iraq has said he plans to write a report in septem Ber on How effective the surge has email Jeff Schogol at  going downrange the following brigades will deploy As part of the regular rotation of forces for operation iraqi free 2nd 1st armoured Germany 2nd cavalry regiment Germany 3rd armoured cavalry fort Texas 1st 101st airborne fort 3rd 101st airborne fort 2nd 101st airborne fort 4th 10th Mountain fort 4th 3rd infantry fort 2nd 25th infantry Schofield Hawaii 1st 4th infantry fort Texas the quote of the pay As commander of troops in Fenty As a Chinook i Alaa iraqi women react at the scene off a car bomb attack on tuesday in Southern a suicide car bomber Tore through a Busy killing at least 16 people and wounding suicide car bomber kills 16 in shiite holy City of Kufa in Iraq by Ravi Nessman the associated press Baghdad a suicide car bomber flattened a restaurant in a Busy Market in the shiite holy City of Kufa on killing at least 16 people and wounding 70 in an attack sure to further in flame tensions Between Iraq sunni and shiite in local authorities closed the entrances to Kufa and its sister holy City of Najaf strongholds of Radical shiite cleric Muntada Alsa drs Mahdi army imposed a vehicle ban around the revered shrines and mosques in the two said Ahmed a local government also a Roadside bomb went off next to a passing mini bus in the shiite area of Zafa ran Yah on the Southeastern out skirts of killing three passengers and injuring five oth police in about 80 Miles North East of a suicide bomber attacked a police station tues Day morning As the Nightshirt officers gathered in front of the preparing to go police the explosion killed two policemen and wounded 20 police the Bullet riddled bodies of six men the apparent victims of sectarian violence were found with their hands and legs bound and bearing Marks of torture in an abandoned Field in the City of 35 Miles Northeast of police also in 12 gunmen tried to Rob a sparking a gun Battle that killed one police of deaths in Iraq the associated press As of at least members of the military have died since the beginning of the Iraq War in March according to an associated press the figure includes seven military at least died As a result of hostile according to the Mili Tarys the a count is nine higher than the defense departments last updated monday at 10 the latest deaths reported by the military no new deaths the latest identifications re ported by the military army staff sgt Christopher Virginia died sunday from Small arms fire in Baghdad assigned to the 1st 5th cavalry 2nd brigade combat 1st cavalry fort army Jerome died thurs Day in Baghdad when an explosive detonated near his vehicle assigned to the 1st 8th cavalry 2nd brigade combat 1st cavalry Divi fort two marines died saturday in Anbar province Marine master Kenneth fort Texas assigned to ii Marine expedition Ary Force Headquarters ii Camp Marine Charles Palmer assigned to 8th communication ii Marine expedition Ary Force Headquarters ii Camp two soldiers died of wounds suffered when an explosive detonated near their vehicle both were assigned to the 1st 5th cavalry regi 2nd brigade combat 1st cavalry fort Texas army staff sgt Christopher died Friday in army Larry died Satur Day in finer and wounded police they said the attackers fled without any an Al Aida umbrella threatened in a video to kill nine abducted iraqi Security officers in 72 hours unless their demands were including the release of All sunni women from iraqi the video showed the five army officers and four policemen lined up in a their hands in front of a Black Banner of the islamic state of a grouping of insurgent including Al Aida in the nine gave their names and and several called on their comrades to quit the Security i ask my Brothers to leave work with the military and return to their said a lieutenant the highest ranking officer among the iraqi forces arrest find weapons Cache stars and stripes and iraqi troops arrested 40 people and seized a Small weapons and supplies Cache in an operation North of officials said tues the dubbed operation Eagle Triumph were carried out by iraqi troops from the 3rd Battal 4th 6th iraqi army division and soldiers with 2nd 15th Field artillery Reg 10th Mountain the Cache contained two a bag of plastic chemical Light a 50round Magazine and a 30round Maga and assorted propaganda against coalition forc officials