Please click here to read the Defence Daily Update - 7 February 2008.

On February 7, 2008, Charles Levinson of USA Today wrote a story covering a shift in al-Qaeda’s tactics in Mosul.

“We were taking pretty sustained fire, but once you engage, they just disappear,” Lt. Jacob Deguire said minutes after a gunfight against insurgents in downtown Mosul. “They’re really good at disappearing once you return fire.”

Read the full article in USA Today here.

On January 26, 2008, GINA CHON of the Wall Street Journal wrote a story covering one of the missing soldiers in Iraq, Army Reserve Staff Sgt. Matthew Maupin.