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Stryker colonel says men made progress in Iraq

Sep-15-2005 » Filed Under: 1/25 SBCT

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By MICHAEL GILBERT; The News Tribune

Down to his last days in Iraq before his troops return to Fort Lewis, Stryker brigade commander Col. Bob Brown gave a final interview Wednesday via teleconference from the Pentagon. Among his subjects:

Homecoming: Brown’s 4,200 troops from the 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division are due to begin arriving early next week, officials at Fort Lewis say. They’ve been in Iraq since October, operating mainly in and around the northern city of Mosul.

Who’s replacing them: The 172nd Infantry Brigade from Fort Wainwright, Alaska.

The insurgents: Early on, Brown’s men fought well-trained foreign fighters, but since February they’ve been capturing poorly trained teenagers from Libya, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Algeria and elsewhere.

“We’re at the lowest number of attacks by far over the last three months. … Clearly, the foreign network is disrupted,” Brown said.

Many holdouts from Saddam Hussein’s old regime have been killed or captured or have decided to take part in the political process, he said. [...]

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