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    Operation Saloon (14 January 2004)

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    Task Force All-American initiated Operation Saloon in the Al-Anbar province and captured a high-ranking former Iraqi Officer. General Mamoud Khudair Younes was taken into custody and had been linked to the downing of the UH-60A Air Ambulance helicopter on January 8, 2004. He was a former Iraqi Intelligence officer in the Al-Anbar province.
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    1865: Confederate General Joseph Johnston officially surrenders his army to General William T. Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina.

    1865: John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.

    1865: Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to Sherman.

    1937: The ancient Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain is bombed by German planes.

    1952: Armistice negotiations are resumed.

    1971: The U.S. command in Saigon announces that the U.S. force level in Vietnam is 281,400 men, the lowest since July 1966.

    1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000.


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