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  • March 2007

    • Army Uses Injured to Inflate Manpower

      Salon  |  Mar 26, 07 9:27 CDT

      (Newser) - The Army sent  soldiers recovering from injuries—some still on crutches—to a desert training center in California, in an apparent attempt to pad manpower statistics. Witnesses describe tents at Fort Irwin packed with soldiers in no shape to train, or even to walk, but counted by the Pentagon as evidence of US battle-readiness. Some, their injuries downgraded, were sent back to Iraq. More »

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      Pentagon  • US Army  • military  • injury

    • Fake Raids Test Iraqi Reconstruction

      Wall Street Journal  |  Mar 22, 07 11:13 CDT

      (Newser) - The American military is staging fake raids on Iraqi small businesses to confirm that US aid is being well spent—without tipping off insurgents that they have any US connection. "The only way things will work is if the US contribution is totally invisible," says a civil-affairs officer, suggesting that cooperating with Americans puts a bull's eye on Iraqi citizens.  More »

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      Iraq  • US economy  • United States  • insurgents  • military  • aid  • economics  • small businesses  • raids  • civil affairs  • Iraq economy

    • Iraqi Bombers Use Kids to Get Through Checkpoint

      New York Times  |  Mar 21, 07 9:00 CDT

      Iraqi Bombers Use Kids to Get Through Checkpoint

      (Newser) - Insurgents in Baghdad used two children in the backseat of a car to lower suspicion at an American security checkpoint, then blew up the car, with the children in it.  Once they cleared the checkpoint, the bombers parked near a school, ran from the car, and detonated the bomb, killing the children and three other civilians, and wounding seven. More »

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      Iraq  • Middle East  • Baghdad  • War on Terror  • insurgents  • military  • Shiite  • car bomb

    • U.S. Stiffs Brits in Friendly Fire Investigation

      CNN  |  Mar 18, 07 11:08 PM CDT

      U.S. Stiffs Brits in Friendly Fire Investigation

      (Newser) - The British government is taking aim at the U.S. military for its role in covering up the 2003 friendly-fire death of a British solider in Iraq. A coroner’s report Friday ruled Lance Cpl. Matty Hull’s death at the hands of American pilots avoidable—and criminal—but the U.S. refuses to release the full military report on the incident. More »

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      Iraq  • Great Britain  • United States  • Middle East  • military  • friendly fire

    • Pace: Homosexuality Is "Immoral"

      Chicago Tribune  |  Mar 13, 07 10:10 PM CDT

      Pace: Homosexuality Is &quot;Immoral&quot;

      (Newser) - "Don't ask, don't tell" works fine for Gen. Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, because "homosexual acts are immoral" and should not be condoned any more than adultery within the ranks. Pace defended the Pentagon's current policy on gays to the Chicago Tribune , opposing proposed legislation that would repeal the ban. More »

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      Iraq  • Afghanistan  • Pentagon  • military  • gay rights  • American troops  • homosexuality  • soldier  • Joint Chiefs of Staff  • Don't Ask, Don't Tell  • Peter Pace

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