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A U.S. Navy Seabee mans a vehicle-mounted machine gun while travelling through Al Hillah, Iraq in May 2003. The Triangle of Death is a name given to a region south of Baghdad during the 2003–2011 occupation of Iraq by the U.S. and allied forces [1] which saw major combat activity and sectarian violence from early 2003 into the fall of 2007.
In September 2005, four Triple Canopy team members were killed, along with 13 others, when a bomb exploded on a street in Basra, Iraq. [15] A rocket attack in July 2010 on Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone killed three Triple Canopy personnel and wounded 15 more. [16]
September 1, 2009 – American, Adam Hermanson, was electrocuted in Baghdad. He was working for Triple Canopy as a PMC. September 13, 2009 – American, Lucas "Trent" Vinson, was killed by a U.S. soldier at Contingency Operating Base Speicher in Tikrit. He was working for Kellogg, Brown & Root as a private contractor. [116]
A 2008 research brief by the RAND Corporation on the subject of counter-insurgency tactics in Iraq between 2003 and 2006 [4] depicts a chart that shows that in June and July 2004, Iraqi insurgents began to shift their focus away from attacking coalition forces with roadside bombs and instead began targeting the Iraqi population with suicide bombers and vehicle-borne IEDs.
Map of the Islamic State of Iraq and its provinces on 7 April 2007. Following the U.S.-launched 2003 invasion of Iraq, the situation deteriorated, and by 2007, the intercommunal violence between Iraqi Sunni and Shi'a factions was described by the National Intelligence Estimate as having elements of a civil war. [16]
In fact, Iraq had no offensive UAV fleet or any capability of putting UAVs on ships. [108] Iraq's UAV fleet consisted of less than a handful of outdated Czech training drones. [109] At the time, there was a vigorous dispute within the intelligence community whether the CIA's conclusions about Iraq's UAV fleet were accurate.
Tyler Perry is spotlighting a lesser-known piece of World War II history in his new Netflix film, The Six Triple Eight. Based on a WWII History Magazine article by Kevin M. Hymel, the film, out ...
Three soldiers were wounded by shrapnel. It was later determined that the attack had been carried out by the Promised Day Brigade. [13] By May 2011, all non-U.S. coalition members had withdrawn from Iraq, with the U.S. military withdrawing from the country on December 18, 2011. [14] The camp continues to be the site of the Iraq Taji National Depot.