November 05

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The following are events related to the Global War On Terrorism (GWOT) that took place on this day.

2001

  • The battle of Tiangi begins. Anti-Taliban forces clear the pass by 8 November

2003

  • Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld announced that Marine Corps units would return to Iraq as part of the U.S. troop rotation. The first 20,000 Marines and sailors of the Camp Pendleton I MEF were expected to replace the Army’s 82d Airborne Division by February 2004. The deployment was expected to last seven-months with another 20,000-strong Marine force replacing them after that for another seven-months.

2005

  • Marines of RCT-2 participated in a massive offensive, Operation Steele Curtain, along the Iraq-Syria border. The 17-day offensive was geared toward preventing al-Qaeda in Iraq from operating in the Euphrates River Valley and throughout the Al Anbar province. Ten Marines were lost during the operation.
  • Operation Syrian Round-up in Iraq
  • Start of Operation Steel Curtain(Al Hajip Elfulathi) in Iraq

2006

  • The trial of Iraq’s former dictator ends with a sentence of death by hanging.

2009

 

Casualties on November 05:

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