Sat. November 21, 2009
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Times Online
November 21, 2009
Claims that British
soldiers tortured and murdered up to 20
prisoners after a battle with
Iraqi insurgents are to be scrutinised at a
public inquiry. ...
magharebia.com
November 21, 2009
U.S. News & World Report
November 21, 2009
He pointed to the success of the
Iraq surge, which brought in former
Sunni Insurgents, often with the help of cash payments. "Money is ammunition," Petraeus ...
Los Angeles Times
November 21, 2009
Southern
Afghanistan is the birthplace of the
Taliban movement, and
Kandahar, the region's main city, is a key strategic target of the insurgency. ...
Florida Today
November 20, 2009
insurgents in Iraq? No. The convoy was part of pre-deployment training that could mean life or death for
soldiers preparing to head to
Iraq early next year ...
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
November 20, 2009
Sprenger, 26, served under Petraeus in the 101st Airborne Division in
Iraq. On Dec. 9, 2003, he was 10 months into his first deployment when an insurgent ...
CNN
November 20, 2009
"I think a lot of times we thought the insurgency would dissipate, we were working closely with the
government of Iraq, we were trying to improve the Iraqi ...
New York Times
November 20, 2009
Christian Science Monitor
November 20, 2009
That election was largely boycotted by
Sunnis, resulting in a lack of political power that was seen as helping to fuel the insurgency.
Iraqi president Jalal ...
Chicago Tribune
November 20, 2009
Adel al-Mashhadani's arrest in March set off a two-day battle in
Baghdad pitting US and forces of
Iraq's
Shiite-led government against al-Mashhadani's group ...
The Moderate Voice
November 20, 2009
The
army and
Marine Corps also gained counter-insurgency skills the hard way, during the Iraqi crucible, learning that the key to defeating
Insurgents lies ...
Huffington Post (blog)
November 19, 2009
Our Generals have been clear --
Afghanistan will likely require a similar commitment to execute a successful counter-insurgency as we conducted in
Iraq. ...
Reuters
November 18, 2009
Baghdad, Nov 18 (Reuters) -
al Qaeda in
Iraq is becoming more Iraqi and less dominated by foreigners as the insurgent group increasingly joins forces with ...
Los Angeles Times
November 18, 2009
Vice President Tariq Hashimi, a
Sunni, carried out his threat to veto the law because, he said, it does not provide for enough seats to represent Iraqi ...
Aljazeera.net
November 18, 2009
He continued to write and publish poetry from exile in the
UK, his works smuggled back into
Iraq where they became a popular symbol of resistance. ...
TheCelebrityCafe.com
November 18, 2009
As the nation comes to grips with the Fort Hood tragedy
soldiers must deal with the physical and mental
wars of
Afghanistan and
Iraq. ...
Consortium News
November 18, 2009
BBC News
November 18, 2009
New York Times
November 18, 2009
Washington Post
November 17, 2009
Baghdad (Reuters) - More than six years after
the US invasion left
Iraq's main zoo a wasteland of starving animals and deserted cages, ...
CNN
November 17, 2009
Christian Science Monitor
November 17, 2009
Times Online
November 16, 2009
Mr Schwarzenegger said he wants to study counter-insurgency
strategies developed by the
US military when
Iraq was on the brink of civil war, and bring them ...
San Francisco Chronicle
November 16, 2009
"Only with the surge have we broken the back of this insurgency." The Associated Press reported that in his briefing,
Oregon's Kulongoski said morale is ...
He can kick in doors and jump out of planes, roust
Insurgents, and rescue hostages. He knows how to survive capture,
torture, the jungle, and the desert. ...
Baghdad âÂÂ"
Iraq's prime minister warns that
Insurgents may try to undermine the country's fledgling democracy in the run-up to January's national elections. ...
Al-Haidari said he'd just come from a meeting with senior Iraqi and
US military commanders to prepare for election security in each of the country's 18 ...
After
Iraq's last national elections in December 2005, Iraqi leaders took months to choose a new government. While political parties jockeyed for position, ...
Iraqi women marched in
Baghdad on
Monday as they became the first female graduates of Iraq's police officer academy. By JOHN LELAND BAGHDAD âÂÂ" As one, ...
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Iraq's Kurds certainly deserve redress for the crimes against them by former Iraqi governments, but redress for past wrongs doesn't justify repression and ...
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Iran charged three
Americans it captured in July near the border with
Iraq with espionage on
Monday, prompting Washington to demand the release of who it ...
(KRQE) - A
New Mexico soldier has died from wounds suffered when
Insurgents attacked his unit in
Iraq last week.
army Spc. Tony Carrasco, Jr., 25, ...
But as retired
army Lieutenant General Barno said in 2004, "While it takes boots on the ground to win a counter-insurgency fight, it takes airpower to move, ...
An obvious satirical element in the movie is the complete lack of
soldiers and
Insurgents in the
Iraq setting âÂÂ" it's a land of corporate interest security ...
Hasan was allegedly very unhappy about the
US wars in
Iraq and
Afghanistan, and was dreading his deployment to Iraq at the end of the month. ...
