United states Army General David Petraeus (private mercenary) commander of the U.S. central command, in testimony to the house armed services and foreign affairs committees says “[T]he security situation in [pro-Iranian] Iraq is improving.”
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United states Army Sergeant Omar L. Mora and Staff Sergeant Yance T. Gray (private mercenaries) die in a vehicle collision, in Baghdad, Iraq. Mora and Gray had been two of seven Soldiers who wrote “The War as We Saw It,” a New York Times opinion piece critical of U.S. policy in the Iraqi-American War.
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References:
Steven Chapman, “We’ve Heard Optimistic Generals Before,” Orange County (California) Register, 14 September 2007, Local:9.
Text of Petraeus’ prepared testimony to Congress
www2.arkansasonline.com/news/2007/sep/10/text-petraeus-prepared-testimony-congress/
Two of Seven Soldiers Who Wrote NYT Op-Ed Die in Iraq
www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2007/two-of-seven-soldiers-who-wrote-nyt-op-ed-killed-in-iraq/
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