European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 21, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page 4 stars and stripes Mideast edition june 2007 photos by Talal iraqi Security forces prepare for Battle with insurgents tuesday in 35 Miles Northeast of about soldiers using heavily armoured Stryker and Bradley fighting vehicles fought their Way into an Al Aida Sanctuary in bad Cuba Early offensive targeting insurgent havens outside Baghdad by Steven Hurst the associated press Baghdad forces expanded their push against insurgent strongholds outside Bagh dad on wednesday As iraqi units joined the offensive and took control of several districts in the key City of the military the commander of ground Raymond odier said the Campaign seeks to up Root insurgents including sunni factions linked to Al Aida in areas North and East of Bagh dad and allow iraqi forces to take greater control Over the Fourmont hold Effort to restore control of the More in hoping it will allow us to maintain it Over a Long period of time and continue to buy the time and space Neces sary for the iraqi Security forces to take Over in he the military said at least 30 Al Aida fighters were killed and several bombs and weapons caches destroyed As the soldiers fought their Way through the streets of the operation involves some american soldiers in Diya la an Al Aida bastion to the North and East of it matched in size the Force that american generals sent against the insurgent held City of Fallu Jah in by late the military had reported Only one american a task Force lightning Soldier killed by an explosion near his iraqi defense ministry spokes Man Mohammed alas Kari said about iraqi soldiers and paramilitary police were iraqi forces said they took control of neighbourhoods in bad Cuba and were greeted by cheering peo our goal is to have no Safe havens in Iraq and of course the iraqi Security forces play a huge role in this and were working very closely with them to make this Odierno an iraqi Soldier guards captured militant suspects tuesday in american and iraqi under cover of attack killed at least 30 Al Aida the military iraqi woman killed As army detonates Cache stars and stripes soldiers destroyed a building thought to be used to make explosively formed Penetra tors in Southern Baghdad and inadvertently caused a woman death while blowing up a Cache of officials said Kirk spokesman and Public affairs officer for the 4th brigade combat 1st infantry expressed deepest sympathies for the woman Fame this unfortunate event is something we Are investigating and will take precaution Ary measures to prevent from happening he said in a press release issued by multinational soldiers of company 1st 38th infantry regiment found six 24 Sticks of c4 plastic a pipe bomb without an Initiator and a rocket propelled grenade launcher while searching abandoned build Ings in the Western Rashid District on tues a House nearby was searched and a 105 my artillery round with a Satchel charge attached and duct tape coated with blood and hair were signs the place was used for after inspecting the soldiers found materials thought to be used to help Camou Flage Roadside an explosive ordnance disposal unit detonated the but the resulting explosion was More powerful than expected and col lapsed a nearby officials a woman was found dead in the rubble when soldiers searched it for any trapped i officials earlier in the coalition aircraft dropped six bombs on a Palm Grove along the Tigris River in the Eastern portion of the Rashid targeted were an infiltration route and possible Cache storage site for Al Aida in Iraq in an area used to conduct indirect fire attacks against the Green zone and coalition officials there were no reports of injuries or Collat eral damage resulting from the officials Fps Are a particular deadly Type of armo piercing Roadside in military officials in Baghdad accused Iran of providing them to shiites in say ing the machining process used to build them was traced to that iranian officials denied the Samarra tense after attacks on mosques by Joseph Giordono and Zeke Minaya stars and stripes fighting in Samarra where an attack last week destroyed the minarets of a revered shiite shrine has As sectarian warfare appears to be ramp ing up once some additional iraqi Security forces had been brought into Samarra after the mosque at tack on june earlier this gunmen at tacked an iraqi police outpost about two Miles from the Sakariya the attackers used Small arms fire and a Sui cide car military officials two iraqi National policeman were wounded in the at officials though no other information was this attack demonstrates total Lack of respect for the Sakariya mosque in Light of its re cent Bryan commander of the 3rd brigade combat 82nd airborne i was quoted As saying in a press the policemen injured were dedicated to protect ing the mosque from any future on two sunni mosques South of Baghdad were heavily damaged by bomb at those were apparently in retaliation to a devastating Sui cide truck bomb that destroyed a shiite mosque in Baghdad on killing nearly 90 people and wounding hundreds of oth military officials have said they Are hopeful the sectarian Vio Lence will not As it did in february 2006 after the first Sakariya shiite including Muntada have called for but officials see signs that those Calls Are los ing their a Sadr called for a three Day mourning period after the mosque military officials have said the peace largely held during that but Are wary of the Days in Sadr the sprawling Shi Ite District in East Baghdad named for Alsa drs troops have reported several attacks against the joint Security station the ass is the Only Perma nent military presence in Sadr which has been a Power base for Alsa drs Mahdi army troops also reported in one an iraqi contractor working at the ass was abducted and then later shot and killed in Daylight hours in the Middle of Sadr email Joseph Giordono at  email Zeke Minaya at