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U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 1, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

SF Gate -- When American soldiers get off duty in Iraq, the men usually return to their quarters, the women to theirs. But Staff Sgt. Marvin Frazier gets to go back to a small trailer with two pushed-together single beds that he shares with his wife. In a histori.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Mar 10, 2008 @ 8:18am neoform

MSNBC -- The flow of blood may be ebbing, but the flood of money into the Iraq war is steadily rising, new analyses show. In 2008, its sixth year, the war will cost approximately $12 billion a month, triple the "burn" rate of its earliest years, Nobel Prize-win.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Nov 3, 2007 @ 8:28pm neoform

Washington Post -- First it became a brand name in security for its work in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now it's taking on intelligence. The Prince Group, the holding company that owns Blackwater Worldwide, has been building an operation that will sniff out intelligence about.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Nov 3, 2007 @ 1:05am neoform

BBC News -- A US TV network has revealed the name of "Curveball" - an Iraqi man whose information was central to the US government's argument to invade Iraq. The CBS show 60 Minutes identifies him as Iraqi defector Rafid Ahmed Alwan. The programme says he arriv.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Nov 2, 2007 @ 10:13pm neoform

ABC News -- ABC News' Jonathan Karl Reports: News flash -- The White House has selectively edited a report on Iraq, taking out negative information and distorting the report's meaning. This isn't about intelligence or weapons of mass destruction. It's my report on.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Oct 31, 2007 @ 8:39pm neoform

CNN -- A grieving father won a nearly $11 million verdict Wednesday against a fundamentalist Kansas church that pickets military funerals in the belief that the war in Iraq is a punishment for the nation's tolerance of homosexuality. Albert Snyder of York, P.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Sep 26, 2007 @ 12:46pm neoform

Army Times -- An Iraq war veteran said Tuesday he is returning his military medals in what anti-war groups are calling a rare and powerful protest. Josh Gaines, 27, plans to mail the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal and National Defense Service Medal to f.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Sep 19, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

USA Today -- A plurality of Americans say Gen. David Petraeus' proposal to begin withdrawing some U.S. forces from Iraq is on the right track, but his long-awaited testimony to Congress last week failed to change fundamental attitudes toward the war. A USA TODAY/Ga.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Sep 16, 2007 @ 3:07am neoform

Times Online -- AMERICA’s elder statesman of finance, Alan Greenspan, has shaken the White House by declaring that the prime motive for the war in Iraq was oil. In his long-awaited memoir, to be published tomorrow, Greenspan, a Republican whose 18-year tenure as hea.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jul 14, 2007 @ 11:25am neoform

MSNBC -- NEW YORK - A soldier who recently returned from Iraq has admitted he paid someone $500 to shoot him in the leg so he could avoid returning for another tour. Jonathan Aponte, 20, claimed he had been robbed and shot but changed his story when police ques.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Thu Jul 5, 2007 @ 4:50pm neoform

Press Esc -- A veteran who spent 14 months in prison for filing a conscientious objector application against redeployment to Iraq has spoken out against the commutation of Scooter Libby's sentence by President Bush. "I was imprisoned for 14 months after trying to a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jul 2, 2007 @ 2:13am neoform

USA Today -- The Pentagon has approved an Army recommendation for a 600% increase in production of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles to protect soldiers from makeshift bombs in Iraq. The unannounced decision Thursday to build as many as 17,770 MRAPs for the.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jun 4, 2007 @ 4:52pm neoform

USA Today -- An al-Qaeda-umbrella group claimed its militants killed three American soldiers after capturing them last month in Iraq, according to a new video released Monday. "The Americans sent 4,000 soldiers looking for them and ... fearing that this will have b.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Jun 3, 2007 @ 11:37am neoform

USA Today -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Sunday cautioned Turkey against sending troops into northern Iraq, as it has threatened, to hunt down Kurdish rebels it accuses of carrying out terrorist raids inside Turkey. "We hope there would not be a unilateral mi.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Jun 3, 2007 @ 11:12am neoform

ABC News -- The current U.S. emphasis may be on the surge in Iraq, but there are plans to start drawing down U.S. forces by the beginning of 2008, according to senior U.S. officials with knowledge of the planning. The senior U.S. commanders in Iraq -- Lt. Gen. Ray.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu May 31, 2007 @ 10:21am neoform

FOX News -- A U.S. veteran who served in the Iraq war could lose his honorable discharge status after being photographed wearing fatigues at an anti-war protest. Marine Cpl. Adam Kokesh and other veterans marked the fourth anniversary of the war in Iraq in April b.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed May 30, 2007 @ 2:57pm neoform

New York Times -- On this Memorial Day, thousands of United States men and women are engaged in untold acts of bravery and drudgery on behalf of what our leaders have defined as vital American interests in Iraq and Afghanistan. But even as the flags wave to honor soldie.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat May 26, 2007 @ 11:22pm neoform

FOX News -- A man beat his girlfriend's 4-year-old son to death after she left the boy in his care while she was deployed to Iraq, police said. Donell Parker, 23, was charged Friday with first-degree murder in the death of Cameron Smith. The boy was found dead in.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat May 5, 2007 @ 9:49am neoform

Washington Post -- More than one-third of U.S. soldiers in Iraq surveyed by the Army said they believe torture should be allowed if it helps gather important information about insurgents, the Pentagon disclosed yesterday. Four in 10 said they approve of such illegal abuse i.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 18, 2007 @ 8:27am neoform

Washington Post -- All charges against a U.S. Marine accused of killing five civilians in Haditha, Iraq, have been dismissed, part of a decision that grants him immunity to testify in potential courts-martial for seven other Marines charged in the attack and in an alleged c.. Read More