Wed. May 16, 2012
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Baxter Bulletin
May 16, 2012
For almost a decade in Iraq and Afghanistan, women have served alongside men as pilots and
logistics officers, and in Female Engagement Teams, where they developed relationships with
Muslim women.
TwoCircles.net
May 16, 2012
Houston Chronicle
May 16, 2012
Hearing loss affects a growing number of teens and 60 percent of returning military from Iraq and Afghanistan, who acquire hearing loss or tinnitus due to noise exposure during service.
The National
May 16, 2012
We want to operate just like any other regional airline," said Nasser Hussein Bandar, the head of Iraq's civil aviation authority.
Reuters
May 16, 2012
By Sharon Begley | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Traumatic brain injury, the signature wound of the Iraq and Afghanistan
wars, is doubly cruel: it leaves many victims emotionally shattered and cognitively crippled.
BET
May 16, 2012
Taking cues from missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, US military advisers are helping African forces take a fresh approach to fighting
Insurgents.
Boing Boing
May 16, 2012
By Cory Doctorow at 12:38 pm Wednesday, May 16
Iraq Veterans Against The War is bringing veterans to the
NATO summit in
Chicago on May 20 to ceremonially return the medals they were awarded for serving in Afghanistan and Iraq.
WRAL.com
May 16, 2012
The Iraqi government alleges that
Sunni death squads were largely composed of his bodyguards and other employees. The charges against the vice president span the worst years of bloodshed that followed the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq as retaliatory ...
AllAfrica.com
May 16, 2012
By Bonnie Mugabe, 16 May 2012 Rwanda's
football Association (Ferwafa) has called off the scheduled Amavubi Stars' international friendly matches against Iraq and
Uganda. According to the initial arrangements, Amavubi were due to play against Iraq ...
Deseret News
May 16, 2012
By David Rising AP American military advisers in
Uganda are drawing on lessons learned from Iraq and Afghanistan to help train
African Union soldiers to fight
Somalia's most powerful insurgent group, al-Shabab.
Boston.com
May 16, 2012
May 15, 2012|Cristina Silva, AP On one of the many days Leo Dunson wanted to die, the Iraq veteran put a
gun to his temple and pulled the trigger.
Scranton Times-Tribune
May 16, 2012
By Bob Kalinowski (Staff Writer) FORTY FORT - Loved ones of
US Army Spc. Dominick J. Liguori say he was fighter, but the 31-year-old could not overcome the lung disease they say he developed while serving in Iraq. Family and friends gathered Tuesday ...
msnbc.com (blog)
May 16, 2012
Iraq war veteran Steven Acheson will engage in the rarest of protests this weekend: He will hand back his military service medals at the
NATO summit in
Chicago, an act one veteran calls "disgraceful.
BBC News
May 16, 2012
Jack Straw has said it would have been "disgusting" had the UK sent troops to
war in Iraq only after considering if there was enough press support.
Huffington Post (blog)
May 15, 2012
We climbed into a second car for the three hour drive north to Erbil, the alleged Iraqi wonderland, home of a real German restaurant with real German beer and a five-star hotel.
News 10NBC
May 15, 2012
Sean was in the
army stationed in Iraq in 2007 when an
IED exploded just two feet from where he stood. He suffered a traumatic brain injury, lost hearing in both ears, had shrapnel wounds and struggled with PTSD.
KCBY.com 11
May 15, 2012
For one Iraq veteran and his family it has been a struggle to get out of
foreclosure even when they're up financially. Alan Canady took a job in
Nevada to save the Coquille home he bought in 2004 but the foreclosure has not been resolved.
New Vision
May 15, 2012
By Vision Reporter and Agencies American military advisers in
Uganda are drawing on lessons learned from Iraq and Afghanistan to help train
African Union soldiers to fight
Somalia's most powerful insurgent group, al-Shabab.
Casper Star-Tribune Online
May 15, 2012
The Iraqi government alleges that
Sunni death squads were largely composed of his bodyguards and other employees. The charges against the vice president span the worst years of bloodshed that followed the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq as retaliatory ...
Business Insider
May 15, 2012
The auction covers twelve new exploration blocks, which could add a potential 29 trillion cubic feet of gas and 10 billion barrels of crude to Iraqi reserves. The KRG and
Baghdad have had long-running disputes over political autonomy, oil rights, ...
NPR
May 15, 2012
by AP LAS VEGAS (AP) - On one of the many days Leo Dunson wanted to die, the Iraq veteran put a
gun to his temple and pulled the trigger.
Seattle Post Intelligencer
May 15, 2012
SINAN SALAHEDDIN, AP
Baghdad (AP) - A bodyguard for Iraq's fugitive vice president testified Tuesday that he was paid $3000 to assassinate a government security official in one of hundreds of
death squad killings that authorities link to one of the ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer
May 15, 2012
Violence has ebbed in Iraq, but
Insurgents frequently launch attacks on the security forces. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE.
Atlanta Journal Constitution
May 15, 2012
Female soldiers this week are moving into new jobs in once all-male units as the
army breaks down formal barriers in recognition of what has already happened in
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In a May 9, 2012 photo, Capt. Sara Rodriguez of the 101st ...
The National
May 15, 2012
AP
Baghdad // Iraq's
politicians have hightailed it out of town for a six-week holiday without keeping a promise to cancel a pricey perk - free armoured cars that they approved for themselves in the annual budget.
Fayetteville Observer
May 15, 2012
And that's just for veterans who have fought the War on Terror in Iraq and Afghanistan. More than 168000 Vietnam veterans took their own lives, Staat said.
The Express Tribune
May 15, 2012
PHOTO: FILE Chinese firm Zhenhua has decided not to partner with Pakistan
petroleum Limited and invest in Iraq due to security issues, The Express Tribune has learnt.
Bond Buyer
May 15, 2012
Lynch's budgetary experience at the state and local levels appears limited, but from 2006 to 2007 he was chief of staff to the US State Department's office of Iraqi reconstruction management in
Baghdad. The offices were responsible for transitioning ...
Asia Times Online
May 15, 2012
Local authorities estimate that as many as 5000 Syrian refugees have moved to
Iraqi Kurdistan since the start of the year. Although they are now safe in Iraq, the refugees said they worry about loved ones left behind and what the future holds for their ...
CBS2 Chicago
May 15, 2012
(CBS)
Chicago (CBS) - Greg Broseus earned 11 medals, risking his life for his country, fighting in Iraq. This weekend, during the
NATO summit in Chicago, there one thing the decorated soldier wants to do: give all those medals back.
Newsweek
May 15, 2012
I had no doubt that our military would easily crush a smaller
Iraqi Army, much weakened by Desert Storm and the sanctions and other actions that came afterward.
Wall Street Journal
May 15, 2012
Huffington Post
May 15, 2012
The
New York Times reports that the State Department, in the face of massive costs and
Iraqi officials who say they never wanted it in the first place, slashed and may soon dump entirely "a multibillion-dollar
police training program in Iraq that was ...
Huffington Post
May 15, 2012
By DAVID RISING 05/14/12 04:35 PM ET KAKOLA,
Uganda -- American military advisers in Uganda are drawing on lessons learned from Iraq and Afghanistan to help train
African Union soldiers to fight
Somalia's most powerful insurgent group, al-Shabab.
Huffington Post
May 15, 2012
We climbed into a second car for the three hour drive north to Erbil, the alleged Iraqi wonderland, home of a real German restaurant with real German beer and a five-star hotel.
Los Angeles Times
May 15, 2012
Washington Post
May 15, 2012
They said they did not witness the attacks, and only complained against al-Hashemi after hearing the accusations against him in
Iraqi media. Journalists were ordered to leave the court during the testimony of a fourth witness, identified only as a ...
Xinhua
May 14, 2012
... a 43-year-old Iraqi national, had never imagined he could teach Jeet Kune Do, a martial art system his idol Bruce Lee founded and made his name for, or make a living on it in war-savaged Iraq like Bruce Lee did in flashy Hollywood.
First Showing
May 14, 2012
by Ethan Anderton Just recently we learned that Robert Pattinson was gearing up for a stint in Iraq. The actor isn't stepping away from acting to join the military (don't worry, ladies), but he will be taking post in Mission: Blacklist, ...
Deutsche Welle
May 14, 2012
Turkey's relations with its neighbor Iraq - already tense - were further strained last week when
Ankara refused to extradite fugitive Iraqi Vice-President
Tareq al-Hashemi. Al-Hashemi, a
Sunni, fled his country early last month after the Shi'ite-led ...
Citizens Voice
May 14, 2012
By Bob Kalinowski (Staff Writer) After
Iraq war veteran Michael Calore completed his two tours of duty, he had difficulty speaking about his experiences with people back home.
San Francisco Chronicle
May 14, 2012
Al-Arabiya
May 14, 2012
Iraq in November signed a final $17 billion deal with Royal Dutch Shell and
Mitsubishi to capture flared gas at southern
oilfields, which is meant to help harness more than 700 million cubic feet per day of gas being burned off.
MarketWatch (press release)
May 14, 2012
MARLTON, NJ and
Baghdad, May 14, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- Hill International (
nyse:HIL) , the
global leader in managing construction risk, announced today that it has been awarded a contract by the Iraq Ministry of Youth and
sports to provide ...
TVNZ
May 14, 2012
An Iraqi woman murdered at her Strathmore, Wellington, home last September had suffered for years at the hands of her jealous husband, a court has been told.
Daily Beast
May 14, 2012
One of the few women to pilot
Black Hawk helicopters in combat, Duckworth lost both legs and shattered her right arm after being downed by a rocket-propelled
grenade in Iraq in 2004. She later emerged as an important voice against that war.
ABC News
May 14, 2012
A pair of
bombings killed four people Sunday in attacks targeting Iraq's security forces, officials said, while the
US embassy in Baghdad maintained it will continue training
Iraqi police despite cutbacks to the program. The first
bomb exploded near a ...
TVNZ
May 14, 2012
An Iraqi woman murdered at her Strathmore, Wellington, home last September had suffered for years at the hands of her jealous husband, a court has been told.
