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MOURNING THE DICTATOR


Bassim Daham / AP
People pray next to the grave of the executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in Ouja, Iraq.


AJC 48TH BRIGADE BLOG
• Lawrenceville parade honors troops | • Photos
• Baby Noor's odyssey | • Photos
• Soldiers bid tearful farewell from Gillem
48th logo
• Time for transition for 48th
• GIs return to Fort Stewart | Photos
• Video of arrival | • Departure photos
• All 48th AJC blog items, photos
APRIL PHOTOS
• Griffin students remember fallen pen pal
• Palace duty with a view from the top

MARCH PHOTOS
• Echo Troop | • Last patrol | • Patrol under fire | • Ambush on the road | • Day in the life of the 48th BCT
• 100 troops return home • Reenlistment, with a great view | • Tourist City's hard times | • Weapons caches

FEBRUARY PHOTOS
• Good will | • Mud bath | • Fallen comrades | • Orphanage

JANUARY PHOTOS
• Letters to daughter | • Noor has surgery

DECEMBER PHOTOS
• I resolve to .... in 2006
• Christmas Eve | • Troops share greetings
• Tents decked out | • Convoys are bomb magnets

NOVEMBER PHOTOS
• Tallil: Walk like a Babylonian | • Thanksgiving
• Louie Favorite saw an eyeful | • Life at Scania

OCTOBER PHOTOS
• Home, sweet home at FOB Lutayfiyah
• On patrol | • Slice of life at former potato factory
• FOB Michael | • Constitution election

SEPTEMBER PHOTOS
• Kid-friendly diplomacy | • Roadside safety
• Bleakness in Husseiniya | • Checkpoint 57
• One-man mission to help disabled | • R&R

MIDEAST HEADLINES


48th Multimedia

48th logo AJC's Moni Basu and Curtis Compton talk about their experience covering the 48th in Iraq.

The fallen


• Audio slideshow: Remembering the 48th's fallen 26
• Interactive map of fallen soldiers' hometowns
• Send your own tribute
• Memorial Day photos


Homefront

Back home at last

Ricky Stanley looks forward to new life, firstborn son. • STORY
• Part 11: Isn't home GRAND?
• Part 10: Brean Hancock update
• Part 8 | • 7 | • 6 | • 5
• Part 4 | • 3 | • 2 | • 1
• Part 9: Season of joy

Web sites/videos

• 1-118th Field Artillery
• Pentagon Web site
• 48th Brigade Combat Team
• Gwinnett troops
• 108th Armor Regiment
• B Co., 108th Armor
• Operation Military Kids
• Alpha Battery
• Marine Reserve unit from Dobbins serving in Iraq.

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