European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 21, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 3 Baghdad tribes close to fighting Al Aida by Zeke Minaya stars and strips Iraq mirroring a nationwide tribes near Bagh dad Are on the verge of banding to Gether against Al Aida and have met with military officials seeking Aid and guidance in fight ing the terrorist acceptance if not outright support among the tribes eroded after the strict islamic Law imposed by insurgents clashed with the authority of the according to Mili tary on a group of local chieftains met with military com Manders and a representative of the state department at Camp about 20 Miles Northwest of and tentatively agreed to form a Council that would Over see the creation of a provincial Security Force similar to the tribal militia created in Western i think we All agree that Pur common enemy Are extremists and that who we must Paul Funk ii said to the roughly dozen sheikhs at the Gath commander of the 1st ironhorse brigade combat 1st cavalry presided Over the with the fledgling Alliance still in its Early the gathering at times resembled a several sheikhs asked for improvements in water treatment and electricity service As Well As for inquiries into the detention by iraqi Security forces of relatives and tribal Are you going to support or do we have to go Knock on some one else one sheikh but even while command ers courted tribal they were wary of creating a Sepa rate fighting Force and potentially further complicating the crowded Battlefield around Baghdad that includes not Only but also shiite we Are not Here to build another Funk volunteers from the tribes must cooperate with the iraqi governments Secu Rity he the emerging Alliance is being handled carefully by the no photographs were Al Lowed at saturdays a nod toward Security concerns and possible retaliation against the Kurt who commands the 2nd 5th cavalry regiment in Abu has been on the forefront of the military outreach to the tribes in the he said that the turn ing Point in the struggle for the sympathies of the Region came last september when Al Aida in Iraq declared the establishment of the islamic state of the Shadow government clashed with the centuries old tribal establishing islamic sharia courts and often punish ing dissection with kidnappings and death throughout history the tribes have been seen As a Challenge 7 soldiers killed in Iraq strikes Mastermind in kidnapping of 4 soldiers in january killed the associated press Baghdad seven american soldiers and a translator were killed in separate attacks in Baghdad and a City South of the the military said six of the americans and the translator died saturday in a bombing in Western the military the soldiers were from the multinational a Soldier from the 13th sustainment com Mand was killed and two were wounded when a blast struck their vehicle saturday near i a mostly shiite City 80 Miles South of the command also forces on a raid in North Ern Baghdad killed a shiite militant believed to have been the Mastermind of a Brazen january attack in Karbala that led to the capture and subsequent killing of four the Mil itary said speaking on inns late William the spokesman for the forces in said troops had been pursuing Azhar Aldulaimii relentless since the 20 in that sophisticated gunmen speak ing wearing military uniforms and carrying american weapons attacked a joint military command Headquarters in the Southern City of Karbala where military officers and their iraqi counterparts were meet the attackers killed one Soldier and abducted four whom they later shot to you anybody who kidnaps an Ameri can Soldier and murders were going to continue to Hunt and that exactly what weve been doing with this Caldwell said troops located Al Duleivi on Friday morn ing and tried to capture but he was killed in the ensuing Caldwell news of the raid came As thousands of soldiers continued searching for three of their comrades who were captured in an ambush by insurgents South of Baghdad last week that also killed four other soldiers and their iraqi in Caldwell said the military would not aban Don the search for the missing soldiers until it discovers what happened to photos by Khaund tears in Baghdad above iraqi children rally sunday in the notorious Haifa Street area of children were demanding the release of two women from the neighbourhood that were detained in a police raid along with their below women mourn during sundays funeral procession for Marwan Jaafar in a prominent soccer was killed in an mortar in violence sunday a suicide bomber exploded a Tanker truck near an iraqi police checkpoint outside a Market West of killing at least two officers and injuring nine police police said they suspected chlorine Gas was used in the attack in a town just outside the tur Bulent City of 70 Miles West of Bagh but the military said it had no re ports chlorine was police grew suspicious of the truck As it approached the checkpoint and opened fire when it was still Yards but the bomber still managed to detonate the police a bomb planted under a parked car exploded in the Central Baghdad neighbourhood of Bab near the Zahraa shiite police the blast killed two civil wounded 10 and damaged nearby houses and the police a mortar Shell landed in a commercial area in Central killing one person and wounding police and have been at one Point Saddam tried to put them Almaeda and now we need to keep the coalition from making the same Pink Erton if you understand the tribal you can under stand the country Why not use tribal influence to meet your goals and objectives tribes in Western and Northern Iraq have previously joined to Gether to Battle the Alanbar revolutionaries have claimed to have killed Doz ens of while after a meeting in the Northern City of Hakijah near Kirkuk earlier this tribal Heads and other Community leaders issued a Declara Tion against email Zeke Monaya at  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 count the figure includes seven military at least died As a result of hostile according to the military the a count is 19 higher than the defense depart ments last updated Fri Day at 10 am the British military has re ported 148 deaths 33 18 20 bul 13 11 seven Al five Slova four three Esto two each and Hun one death the latest deaths reported by the military a Soldier was killed Satur Day by a Roadside bomb South of a Soldier was killed Fri Day by Small arms fire South of a Soldier was killed Friday in combat in Anbar two soldiers were killed Friday by Small arms fire in Northwestern the latest identifications re ported by the military army Aaron Gautie killed thursday in Baghdad by Small arms fire assigned to the 2nd 23rd infantry regi 4th 2nd infantry fort army sgt Steven pack killed thursday in Rushdi Mullah by an explosive assigned to the 2nd 14th infantry 2nd brigade com Bat 10th Mountain Divi fort army Jonathan Baltimore killed thursday in Baghdad by Indi rect fire assigned to the 2nd 23rd infantry regi 4th 2nd infantry fort