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• String of assassination attempts kills 4 in Baghdad and Anbar province in Iraq

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 952
  BAGHDAD -- A string of assassination attempts in Baghdad and in the Sunni areas west of the capital over the past two days has killed four people, including a member of a Sunni political party and a prominent tribal leader, police officials said.
  2 days ago

• Marine squadron exits Iraq after 6 years

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  AL ASAD AIR BASE — U.S. Marines with Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron-269 gathered at their headquarters building here for a bittersweet ending to their six-year presence in Iraq, Dec. 15. "For more than half a decade, HMLA-269 has made Iraq a second home," said Lt. Col. Jon Hackett, commanding officer of the ...
  1 week ago

• Different Presidents, A Different Corps

  
  One Man's Thoughts — Authority: 436
  This video has received a lot of attention. As of right now, it is showing well over a half a million hits since it was posted on March 1. It is also controversial. Many Obama supporters have claimed to debunk the video by pointing out that the events were not comparable. They argue that the event in Anbar province ...
  3 weeks ago

• Obama’s Afghanistan speech: Bush could have done it better

  
  News World — Authority: 138
  Barack Obama’s speech was a mild gamble from a mild-mannered man. His plan is that 30,000 extra troops will subdue the Taliban, while the Afghan army grows to the point where the Americans can scoot off before things turn nasty again. It could just work, and it might be good enough for American voters in [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Saddam was telling truth in missing Gulf War pilot (AP)

  
  Politics - Political News — Authority: 130
  WASHINGTON – Saddam Hussein was telling the truth, this time. The United States just didnt believe him. So it took the most powerful military in the world 18 years to find the remains of the only U.S. Navy pilot shot down in an aerial battle in the 1991 Gulf War . Michael ...
  4 weeks ago

• Iraqi troops kill chlorine suicide bomber

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  SNIPPET: "Iraqi soldiers foiled a potentially deadly suicide attack today at the border crossing at Al Qaim in western Anbar province. From Aswat al-Iraq (Voices of Iraq): “A force from the 28th infantry division managed to defuse a car bomb and to kill its driver in al-Qaim, Anbar province,” said the statement ...
  5 weeks ago

• Rep. Obey Seeks War Surtax for Afghanistan

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 744
  Rep. David Obey (D-WI 7) The big story over in Afghanistan is that US special forces have begun to fund Afghan militia in a similar fashion to the Anbar Awakening, offering local resistance to the Taliban. The last time this country funded a local fighting force in Afghanistan they created the structure for Osama ...
  5 weeks ago

• Nubs’ story headed for the big screen

  
  ohmidog! — Authority: 532
  Warner Bros. is buying the story of Nubs , the stray Iraqi mutt who befriended a group of Marines and was shipped home to the U.S. by one of them. Nubs — so named because most of both his years were lopped off by Iraqi soldiers — befriended Marine Major Brian Dennis and his fellow soldiers while Dennis was on ...
  5 weeks ago

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