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	Republican Gaurd
		The Republican Guard began its life in the early 1980s as a force that was tasked with the protection of Saddam Hussein's regime.
		The envelopment and destruction of Republican Guard units was a high priority for Coalition military planners.
		The Nebuchadnezzar, Tawakalna, Madina, and Adnan Divisions of the Republican Guard were hit the hardest during the Operation Desert Storm.
	www.iraqinews.com /org_republican_gaurd.shtml (337 words)

	Republican Guard
		Iraqi Republican Guard units began moving from garrisons around Baghdad as Saddam made his 17 July 1990 speech accusing Kuwait (among others) of cheating Iraq of oil revenue and of occupying territory belonging to Iraq.
		In response, a Republican Guard battalion led by outraged al-Dulaymi military officers attacked the Iraqi prison at Abu Gharayb.
		Two loyal Republican Guard brigades defeated the rebels, but Hussein was disturbed by the fact that some of his normally loyal Republican Guards had turned against him.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/iraq/rg.htm (1334 words)

	Iraqi Special Republican Guard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Iraqi Special Republican Guard was formed from the Iraqi Republican Guard and founded in either 1992 or 1995 in the nation of Iraq.
		The Special Republican Guard was charged with protecting the president, Saddam Hussein, and responding to any threat to his power, such as a rebellion or coup, and protecting Baghdad.
		The Special Republican Guard ceased to exist with the defeat of Iraq in April 2003, by members of a U.S. -led coalition during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iraqi_Special_Republican_Guard (230 words)

	CNS - The Republican Guard [Al-Haris Al-Jamhuri]
		The Republican Guard expanded rapidly during the Iran-Iraq War, although it was created to serve as a praetorian guard, to provide protection for all presidential sites, including offices and personal residences, as well as escorting Saddam when he is traveling within Iraq.
		The destruction of the Guard was a primary aim of the US-led Coalition Force in the 1991 Gulf War.
		After the Iraqi Shi'a and Kurds revolted against the regime in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War, the weakened Republican Guard rallied behind Saddam Hussein, and brutally suppressed the insurrection.
	cns.miis.edu /research/iraq/rguard.htm (962 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Iraqi Units Reported Moving to Challenge U.S. Troops
		Republican Guard units began moving out of defensive positions today in a convoy of 1,000 military vehicles that was reportedly heading in the direction of U.S. Army forces around the city of Karbala, about 50 miles south of Baghdad, U.S. military officials said.
		Another contingent of 2,000 troops from one Republican Guard division was on the move to reinforce another one facing U.S. troops outside the capital.
		The Iraqi president may be emboldened by the capture of several Army soldiers and the persistent harassment U.S. and British soldiers have endured in southern Iraq.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A30772-2003Mar26?language=printer (2059 words)

	Military.com Content
		When U.S. units began to probe into territory believed to be held by Republican Guards, the lack of resistance they encountered could mean the units had been destroyed, or that they were intact but declining combat, or that they had withdrawn, or that they were never there in the first place.
		U.S. sources report that the Republican Guard units south of Baghdad have declined to engage U.S. troops and are engaged in a strategic withdrawal into the outskirts of Baghdad, ahead of advancing U.S. troops.
		Iraqis were able to approach the bridge twice, and U.S. forces resorted to tank and artillery to repel the attacks.
	www.military.com /Content/MoreContent1?file=stratfor_040403 (1728 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Middle East \| Iraqi Republican Guard 'finished'
		Iraqi authorities however said they had repulsed an American attack from the south, claiming: "We were able to chop off their rotten heads."
		Iraqi tanks and heavy armour were deployed in Baghdad for the first time since the war began but there was defiance from the leadership.
		There were still Republican Guard soldiers around, he conceded, saying: "We haven't killed all of them but the ones that are still around are walking with a bit of a limp."
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/2920989.stm (696 words)

	The Iraqi Republicans: How Bush’s America Will Be a Lot Like the New Iraq
		These were the seven pillars of the Iraqi Republican Guard’s thinking under Saddam Hussein.uHusseinHussein They continue to be the pillars of convention under the U.S. occupation which are, in effect, easily enforced by former Republican Guard officers who are part of the core of the new Iraqi Republicans.
		The major difference between the Republican Iraq and the Republican America at this point is the presence of a press that, occasionally, bites the hand that feeds.
		Just as the Iraqi press was loathe to question its lord and master, so are the conservative press, radio and TV stations lapdogs, suckling at the bosoms of their well-endowed masters and mistresses.
	www.commondreams.org /views04/0520-10.htm (1528 words)

	Iraqi troops massacred from the air as US advances into Baghdad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Iraqi units that have withstood the aerial attacks have been subjected to massive artillery bombardments and assaults by jet fighters, A-10 tank-buster aircraft and Apache helicopter gunships.
		Survivors of Iraqi Guard units that have been flanked or bypassed by the US columns are attempting to retreat to Baghdad to join with defenders inside the city proper.
		The resistance of the Iraqi people has inevitably seen the invasion degenerate into a campaign to wipe out the vastly outgunned Iraqi armed forces and traumatise and intimidate the population into accepting rule from Washington.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2003/apr2003/bagh-a04.shtml (1079 words)

	Special Republican Guard (SRG) - Iraqi Intelligence Agencies
		Although sometimes confused with the elite military forces of the Republican Guard, it was an entirely separate entity with quite different functions and capabilities.
		The primary mission of the Special Republican Guard was to work with the Special Security to protect Saddam, and the two units together became known as the Organization of Special Security (OSS).
		The Special Republican Guard was responsible for, among other things, the security of the capital, Baghdad, as well as Saddam's family palaces and other vital facilities of the regime.
	www.globalsecurity.org /intell/world/iraq/srg.htm (1366 words)

	American, Interrupted: Explore Thompson's duffel bag from Iraq.
		Purchased by Thompson for $12 from Iraqi storekeeper.
		Iraqis ceremic art has yet to be discovered due to the security situation.
		Iraqis were very giving people, even when it seemed they did not have anything.
	www.american-interrupted.com /pages/duffelbag/duffel_index.htm (1499 words)

	DefenseLINK News: Army Units Confront Iraqi Republican Guard
		The attacks were very effective and resulted in the capture of an Iraqi general, an airfield and a training camp for regime death squads, CENTCOM Deputy Operations Chief Army Brig.
		In some cases, Brooks said, Iraqi death squads are mingled in with Republican Guard units to ensure they fight.
		The attacks on Republican Guard forces mean the coalition is reducing their strength and disrupting or ending the ability of commanders to command and control their forces.
	www.defenselink.mil /news/Apr2003/n04012003_200304012.html (447 words)

	Iraqi Republican Guard 'finished' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Iraqi officials denied a raid had taken place but for the first time since the war began, Iraqi tanks and heavy armour have been deployed in the centre of the capital.
		Reporters said Iraqi tanks and troops were blocking main roads into the capital and militia fighters dressed in fl are helping to man machine gun positions.
		There were still Republican Guard soldiers around - "we haven't killed all of them but the ones that are still around are walking with a bit of a limp," the general said.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/886032/posts (969 words)

	washingtonpost.com: U.S. Apache Helicopter Downed in Iraqi-Held Territory
		The Iraqi government publicized the loss of the helicopter as a victory of guerrilla tenacity.
		Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed Sahhaf told reporters at a Baghdadnews conference: "Farmers shot down two Apaches." Iraqi has yet to produce pictures of a second helicopter and U.S. officials have not announced the loss of another craft.
		Iraqi television interviewed an Iraqi farmer it said had shot down an Apache, the Reuters news agency reported.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A19250-2003Mar24?language=printer (1247 words)

	The Flagship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		McChrystal said the air campaign is hammering the Medina, Hammurabi, Baghdad and Al Nida divisions of the Iraqi Republican Guard.
		Republican Guard units are moving from north of Baghdad, the general said.
		Republican Guard units are placing their armor and infantry vehicles in residential areas.
	www.flagshipnews.com /iraqi_freedom/mar312003_2.shtml (578 words)

	frontline: the gulf war: oral history: bernard trainor
		Now, the the Iraqi army was made up mostly of Shi'ite with Suni officers, but they were never in a position to threaten the regime because between Saddam Hussein and that army, there was always the Republican Guard to protect Saddam Hussein and deflect anything that might happen with the regular army.
		As long as the Republican Guard remained loyal to him, did not turn on him, he was in a reasonably good position because his political infrastructure was in place, as well as his secret police infrastructure in place, and now he has loyal praetorian guard, if you will.
		But the fact that the Republican Guards were able to reconstitute themselves because so many of them had escaped intact from Kuwait, the chances of the regular Army moving against Saddam Hussein, I think were minimal.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/oral/trainor/8.html (2021 words)

	CNN.com - U.S.-led coalition pushes toward Baghdad - Mar. 24, 2003
		Iraqi children look Monday through a window in a suburb of Baghdad, as smoke rises from oil fires that ring the city as a defense.
		With soldiers from the U.S. Army's V Corps poised to take on an elite Iraqi Republican Guard division less than 60 miles from Baghdad, coalition planes and helicopters pounded Iraqi positions to clear a path toward the Iraqi capital.
		The fierce resistance from Iraqi troops in the south also resulted in the first British combat death of the war, a soldier killed in action Monday near Basra in southern Iraq.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/meast/03/24/sprj.irq.war.main/index.html (1213 words)

	USATODAY.com - Republican Guard's fiercest division blocks way to Baghdad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		As the Army's 3rd Infantry Division continued to move toward Baghdad on Tuesday, a major obstacle continued to loom — the Iraqi Republican Guard's vaunted Medina Division, 10,000 seasoned fighters considered to be some of Saddam Hussein's best troops.
		Defense officials believe the division —; one of up to eight within the Republican Guard — is arrayed along a line of defense about 50 miles south of Baghdad, in the vicinity of the city of Karbala where advance U.S. army units have taken up positions.
		Growing out of a palace guard during the Iraq-Iran war in the 1980s, the all-volunteer Republican Guard has become a privileged military class.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2003-03-25-republican-usat_x.htm (612 words)

	CNN.com - Iraqis press for urban warfare - Mar. 31, 2003
		Iraqi Republican Guard troops appeared to be taking sanctuary in two cities south of Baghdad Monday in an apparent effort to bait U.S. forces into urban combat as they converge on the capital.
		The coalition ground units looked to be encouraging the Republican Guard units to come out of their hiding places and fight the U.S.-led forces in the desert, said Rodgers, who is embedded with the U.S. Army's 3rd Squadron of the 7th Cavalry.
		Analyst Dan Plesch from the Royal United Services Institute told CNN that the Iraqi fighters were presenting a tough front to prevent coalition ground forces from reaching Baghdad.
	cnn.com /2003/WORLD/meast/03/31/sprj.irq.war.cities/index.html (408 words)

	U.S. Fights Iraqi Republican Guard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The target is reported to have been the Medina division, one of the three Republican Guard units whose mission is to protect the ancient city of Baghdad.
		The strategy behind the initial attacks is reportedly to soften and cripple the Iraqi division, so as to crush it in follow-up attacks, as the battle is not expected to be a quick one.
		The Iraqis were dug in along a wide front, firing from an open desert and at least one building.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/873743/posts (1882 words)

	First firefights with troops protecting Baghdad : Allies probe defenses
		Low-flying warplanes relentlessly attacked Baghdad on Monday with a barrage of bombs and missiles, while outside the capital U.S. troops engaged Iraqi Republican Guard units in what was described as the first serious encounter with the ring of soldiers protecting the city.
		Colonel William Grimsley, commander of the 1st Brigade of the 3d Infantry Division, said clashes with the Republican Guard in the area Monday were the "first serious contact" with the elite troops.
		Six Iraqi civilians were reported killed and dozens wounded in residential neighborhood, according to Kamal Askar, director of Al Kindi hospital.
	www.iht.com /articles/2003/04/01/attack_ed3_.php (1261 words)

	BreakingNews.ie: Republican Guard head for showdown with US Marines
		Some Iraqi Republican Guard units moved south from Baghdad toward US forces that are approaching the capital, Pentagon officials said today.
		Black combat boots were discarded along the road by Iraqi fighters who have taken off their military footwear and changed into robes, hoping to avoid capture as combatants.
		At a Baath Party building flying Iraqi flags, a small group of men sat clustered in a grassy area around a woman dressed in a fl chador and waving a white flag of surrender.
	breaking.examiner.ie /2003/04/03/story94109.html (764 words)

	DefenseLINK News: Coalition Destroying Iraqi Republican Guard
		Brooks, the deputy operations chief for U.S. Central Command, reported that the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force and the Army's 5th Corps started an attack to destroy Republican Guard forces defending the outskirts of Baghdad.
		Along with the land component, Iraqi forces had to face attacks from coalition air forces.
		More than 800 were strike sorties with the vast majority targeted at the Medina, Hammurabi and Baghdad Republican Guard divisions.
	www.defenselink.mil /news/Apr2003/n04022003_200304021.html (496 words)

	Fierce fighting on road to Baghdad - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		In anticipation of a push on Baghdad, F/A-18s attacked a Republican Guard fuel depot and missile facility south of the Iraqi capital, officials said.
		As the number of Americans inside Iraq continued to swell, the 101st Airborne Division raided Republican Guard units south of Baghdad in the first such attack by the division in the war.
		Marines and Iraqi forces exchanged tank and artillery fire in their continuing battle for Nasiriyah, a city of about 500,000 on the Euphrates River between the Kuwaiti border and Baghdad.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/pittsburghtrib/s_126415.html (1002 words)

	Destroy the Republican Guard
		We were to accomplish this by moving west about 100 kilometers, passing through the First Infantry Division's breach, thrusting north to VII Corps' left flank, and, then, finally, attacking east toward Basra to complete the envelopment of the Republican Guard divisions.
		The Republican Guard troops were professional soldiers, battle-hardened by eight years of combat with Iran, equipped with state-of-the-art Soviet equipment.
		The 2nd ACR troopers were decimating their Iraqi opponents; we could see AH-1 Cobra attack helicopters pop up and launch TOWs at distant Iraqi targets, which would go up in an array of colorful secondary explosions.
	www.hoskinson.net /gulfwar/dstorm13.html (1893 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		It's also increased the efficiency of the air strikes against Republican Guard and other Iraqi troops because, with U.S. ground troops in visual positions to sight the Iraqi Republican Guard and the Iraqi regular army, the accuracy of the U.S. air strikes has increased dramatically.
		These Iraqi regular-army soldiers had RPGs and fired two of these rocket-propelled grenades at the U.S. positions, when a U.S. Bradley troop carrier using this depleted-uranium ammunition opened fire on it from about 30 to 35 meters away.
		One Iraqi soldier who was out of the vehicle at the time about 15 meters back from the vehicle was killed just from the concussion of the blast.
	www.rferl.org /features/2003/04/02042003150647.asp (876 words)

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