U.S. ARMY SOLDIERS IN FIREFIGHT WITH TALIBAN IN AFGHANISTAN (LIVE ACTION VIDEO)

While the world seemingly focuses on the death of Michael Jackson, there are young men and women over in Afghanistan who are putting their lives on the line everyday as they fight the Taliban in the barren regions of Afghanistan. This video is a brief look at real heroes who are not pop rock star icons.

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OREGON NATIONAL GUARD FIRING .50 CAL MACHINE GUN IN AFGHANISTAN (ACTION VIDEO)

Video show a unit of the Oregon National Guard firing a .50 Cal. machine gun outside a FOB in Afghanistan.

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NEWS ALERT: SITUATION WORSES IN BAGHDAD: MOTORCYLE BOMB KILLS 19

The situation in Baghdad worsened on Friday when a motorcyle bomb went off in a crowded bazaar in Baghadad killing 19 people. There have been numerous attacks in Baghdad in the past week killing over 200 people as the violence escalats in Iraqi capital city.

BAGHDAD (AP) -- A booby-trapped motorcycle exploded in a crowded bazaar Friday in Baghdad, killing at least 19 people, Iraqi officials said, part of an apparent trend toward increased use of motorcycles to thwart stepped up security measures.

SOURCE: DALLAS MORNING NEWS: http://tinyurl.com/npf5u4

The attack was the latest in a week of violence that has killed more than 200 people, with just four days to go before the deadline for U.S. combat troops to withdraw from cities.

The spike has raised fresh doubts about the ability of Iraqi forces to provide security and fight a stubborn insurgency as their American partners become less visible.

U.S. and Iraqi officials have warned they expect more violence in the days surrounding the deadline as militants stage a show of force to try to stoke sectarian bloodshed and undermine confidence in the government.

But American commanders and Iraqi leaders have insisted the withdrawal will go ahead as scheduled. Under a security pact, the Americans must pull back from cities by June 30 and from the entire country by the end of 2011.

The Baghdad explosion occurred just after 9 a.m. when the market was packed with young people buying or selling motorcycles in central Baghdad, according to police and hospital officials.
Ghaith Abdul-Allah, 35, was unloading motorcycles he planned to sell from his truck when the blast occurred.

BREAKING NEWS: BAGHADAD SHATTERED AGAIN BY BOMB BLAST: 13 KILLED, 45 WOUNDED

The situation in Baghdad as well as the rest of Iraq is rapidly going downhill as more and suicide bombs are going off in Baghdad as well as the rest of Iraq. The bombings have put a crimp in the plans of the Obama administration to pull U.S. troops out of Iraq.

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Bomb kills 13, wounds 45 in Baghdad

By Abdul Rahman DaherReutersFriday, June 26, 2009 4:50 AM
SOURCE: WASHINGTON POST: http://tinyurl.com/mn2esd


BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A bomb killed at least 13 people and wounded 45 when it exploded in an industrial area of Baghdad on Friday, just four days before U.S. combat troops are due to withdraw from Iraqi cities and towns.

Police said the bomb was planted on a motorbike in a market specializing in motorcycles in Bab al-Sheikh, a largely Shi'ite Muslim part of central Baghdad.

Shredded shoes and bits of bloody clothing were scattered around the twisted frames of motorbikes.

A spate of bombings in Baghdad and other parts of Iraq has raised doubts about whether the Iraqi security forces can take over the fight against a stubborn insurgency when U.S. troops withdraw to their bases at the end of this month.

Iraqi police and army have had to be completely rebuilt since U.S. administrators disbanded the Iraqi forces after the U.S. invasion in 2003, a fatal decision that left thousands of trained fighters unemployed and angry, fuelling an insurgency
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Despite proud assertions from the government that the U.S. pullback represents a victory for Iraq as it regains its sovereignty, many Iraqis lack faith in their own forces.

On Wednesday, 78 people were killed in a bomb attack in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood, just days after a truck bomb killed 73 people in the northern city of Kirkuk.

FIERCE FIREFIGHT:U.S. FORCES BATTLE TALIBAN IN TORA BORA (GREAT VIDEO)

There is plenty of action in this video as U.S. forces take on the Taliban in the mountains of Afghanistan in a place called Tora Bora which was suspected to be where Usama bin Laden had been hiding out.

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U.S. SOLDIERS FROM 3RD BN. 3RD SPECIAL FORCES ARE HIT BY TALIBAN FIRE IN AFGHANISTAN (WATCH VIDEO)

Video shows a platoon from the 3rd Bn., 3rd Special Forces after they are hit by Taliban fire in the mountains of Afghanistan. Sound starts out low, but builds up.

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