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One specialist’s long, hard road to Iraq (www.ngb.army.mil)
Bombs, violence and death were part of Titus Abure’s boyhood. He fled the Republic of the Sudan as a 16-year-old refugee. His father died in Sudan’s civil war.
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More than 100 Air National Guard members from Scott ship out for Iraq (www.bnd.com)
More than 100 members of the Illinois Air National Guard's 126th Air Refueling Wing at Scott Air Force Base were deployed to Iraq last week.
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Suicide bombings in Iraq hit Fallujah, prompt lockdown (www.mcclatchydc.com)
Authorities sealed off the city of Fallujah Thursday after two suicide bombings killed 15 people and wounded more than 100, Iraqi police said.
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Deaths in Iraq: A look at the American lives lost (www.usatoday.com)
This list includes fatal U.S. government casualties — military and civilian — in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Its totals will usually be slightly less than those in media reports because they are... More
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Morale: The Marines Are Right And The Army Is Wrong (www.strategypage.com)
The U.S. Army is under increasing pressure to use six month combat tours, rather than the twelve months ones it has been using for over half a century. This issue came up recently when the army... More
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Combat deaths in Iraq, Afghanistan fall sharply (www.militarytimes.com)
U.S. combat deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan last month dropped to the lowest combined level since the United States began fighting the two wars more than five years ago. Eleven American... More
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Ind. guardsmen sue KBR over chemical exposure (www.armytimes.com)
Sixteen Indiana National Guard soldiers sued defense contractor KBR Inc. on Wednesday, saying its employees knowingly allowed them to be exposed to a toxic chemical in Iraq five years ago. The... More
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Suit claims Halliburton, KBR sickened base (www.militarytimes.com)
A Georgia man has filed a class-action lawsuit against KBR and Halliburton, saying the contractors exposed everyone at Joint Base Balad in Iraq to unsafe water, food and hazardous fumes from the burn... More
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Al-Maliki Refuses to Disband Councils; Talabani Invokes Constitutional Court; Basra Province Protests Iraqi Army (www.juancole.com)
The Kurdish president of Iraq, Jalal Talabani, is more or less threatening to sue the Shiite prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki. Al-Maliki has been creating Arab tribal councils loyal to himself,... More
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Iraq approves U.S. security pact (www.usatoday.com)
Iraq's three-member presidential council on Thursday approved a security pact with the United States setting out a three-year timeframe for the full withdrawal of American troops, a spokesman... More
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