Iraqi War
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3/7/10 In Baghdad, mortar rounds mark Iraq election day Reporting from Baghdad - Dozens of mortar rounds thudded across Baghdad on Sunday morning and at least 12 people were killed as Iraqis went to the polls in an election testing the stability of the country's still-fragile democracy.Insurgents had vowed to disrupt the elections -- which they see as validating the Shiite-led government and the U.S. presence -- with violence in order to increase uncertainty over a looming U.S. troop drawdown and widen still jagged sectarian divisions. As the polls opened at 7 a.m., bombs began exploding and mortar rounds landing across the city. 3/6/10 The attacks were launched as security forces and hospital patients cast the first ballots in the parliamentary elections that will choose the next four-year government. 2/17/10 Police responded to the home just after 10 a.m. on Feb. 19 and found Needham unresponsive, said Sgt. Alex Droban of the Sahuarita Police Department. "There was nothing unusual or suspicious surrounding the death,” he said. Needham was taken in an ambulance to a local hospital. According to Salon.com, Needham died about 10 days after back surgery at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Tucson, Ariz. (one more sad example of how PSTD is affecting the troops when they get home sometimes) 2/4/10 2/3/10 "It was kind of hurtful," the former Army cook said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "If I'd been a petite, cutesy thing, it would've been different."Johnson, the nation's first female black prisoner of war, said she felt she was portrayed differently because of her race, either by media outlets that chose not to cover her experience or those who portrayed her as greedy when she challenged the disability rating she was given for her post-traumatic stress disorder. 2/2/10 1/29/10 1/27/10 Witnesses to devastation, and to their own luck Alerted by two explosions minutes earlier, and automatic gunfire outside their hotel, most staffers of the Los Angeles Times' Baghdad bureau had taken cover when the bomber detonated his vehicle. Reporting from Baghdad - It was lucky for us that the suicide bombers struck first at two other hotels, and that the one who targeted our hotel was forced by security guards to fight his way into the compound.Alerted by the two explosions minutes earlier on Monday, and then the popping of automatic gunfire immediately outside, most staffers of the Los Angeles Times bureau had taken cover in an inside corridor when the bomber detonated his vehicle outside. The blast left a 30-foot crater in the tarmac, destroyed walls and windows around us and demolished at least two houses nearby. 1/1/2010 Iraqis outraged as Blackwater case thrown out Iraqis seeking justice for 17 people shot dead at a Baghdad intersection responded with bitterness and outrage Friday at a U.S. judge's decision to throw out a case against a Blackwater security team accused in the killings.The Iraqi government vowed to pursue the case, which became a source of contention between the U.S. and the Iraqi government. Many Iraqis also held up the judge's decision as proof of what they'd long believed: U.S. security contractors were above the law. "There is no justice," said Bura Sadoun Ismael, who was wounded by two bullets and shrapnel during the shooting. "I expected the American court would side with the Blackwater security guards who committed a massacre in Nisoor Square." What happened on Nisoor Square on Sept. 16, 2007, raised Iraqi concerns about their sovereignty because Iraqi officials were powerless to do anything to the Blackwater employees who had immunity from local prosecution. The shootings also highlighted the degree to which the U.S. relied on private contractors during the Iraq conflict. 12/19/09 Iraqi troops in standoff with Iran Iraqi troops massed Saturday near an oil well on the border in a standoff with Iranian forces that seized control of the site in a sudden flare up of tension between the two uneasy neighbors.The top U.S. diplomat in Iraq said Baghdad's speedy response to the border incursion showed that Iraq is "not going to be pushed around" by Iran. The Iraqi troops and border guards were waiting for further orders at a staging ground about a kilometer from oil well No. 4 at the al-Fakkah oil field, said an Interior Ministry official at the site who was not authorized to talk to the media. The Iranian military, meanwhile, denied they had violated Iraq's sovereignty since the oil well was part of Iranian territory according to a 1975 border agreement, in a statement carried by the Arabic language Iranian news station al-Alam. The field is located about 200 miles (about 320 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad. 12/17/09 Insurgents
in Iraq Hack Unmanned US Planes Insurgents in Iraq have used
inexpensive computer software to capture live video
feeds from U.S. Predator drones, which may be helping them evade
and monitor U.S. military operations, The
Wall Street Journalreported. Army Again Turns to Depleted Uranium for New Weaponry For decades, depleted uranium (DU) has been the material of choice for anti-tank projectiles — despite a series of controversies about its potential health hazards. But for the near future, at least, the U.S. military will keep on using DU. Alternatives based on tungsten haven’t panned out. Now, the Army is upgrading to a new 120mm Advanced Kinetic Energy round, and about the only thing we know for sure is that it will be made of DU. The generation after that … may be an improved version of DU calledStakalloy. 6/29/09 Iraqis rejoice as U.S. troops leave Baghdad U.S. troops pulled out of Baghdad on Monday, triggering jubilation among Iraqis hopeful that foreign military occupation is ending six years after the invasion to depose Saddam Hussein.Iraqi soldiers paraded through the streets in their American-made vehicles draped with Iraqi flags and flowers, hanting, dancing and calling the pullout a "victory."One drove a motorcycle with party streamers on it; another, a Humvee with a garland of plastic roses on the grill.U.S. combat troops must pull out of Iraq's urban centers by midnight on Tuesday under a bilateral security pact that also requires all troops to leave the country by 2012. 7/15/08 The Doctor, the Depleted Uranium, and the Dying Children vid Must see....understand! Older....2005......Next
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