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Iraq war stories: 710 news summaries

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Iraqi Prisoners Taunt Wis. Soldiers Over Favre Defection

Detainees get into the Packers-Vikings rivalry

Nov 20, 09 9:30 PM CST
(Newser) - An allegiance to the Green Bay Packers has come back to haunt Wisconsin National Guardsmen on duty at a prison camp in Iraq, with detainees using quarterback Brett Favre’s defection to the rival Vikings to taunt the soldiers. A Packers-themed paint job sparked curiosity, one officer tells WTMJ-AM , “... More »

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Iraqi War Zone Sees
Big Spike in Birth Defects

Fallujah reports unusually high rate of abnormalities

Nov 14, 09 1:24 PM CST
(Newser) - Doctors in Fallujah are seeing an alarming rise in the number of birth defects and early life cancers. They have no definitive evidence, but suspicion has naturally fallen on toxic materials left behind after years of modern warfare, reports the Guardian . The rate of birth defects—including multiple tumors, nervous... More »

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Iraq • warfare • Fallujah • chemical warfare • Iraq war • birth defect

 Poll: Grouchy 
 Public Sticks 
 With Obama 

Glum nation pessimistic about economy, wars

Nov 11, 09 4:49 AM CST
(Newser) - America's mood has crashed hard after the euphoria that greeted Barack Obama's inauguration: A recent poll shows the country in a pessimistic funk as the president struggles to revive the economy and fight two wars abroad. But Americans haven't lost all faith in Obama: His approval stands at 54%, no... More »

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US economy • approval ratings • Iraq war • Afghanistan war • opinion polls • polls • President Obama

opinion

 Honor Hero Cop: End 
 Ban on Women in Combat 

Time to wrap up the military's 'failed social experiment'

Nov 7, 09 10:15 AM CST
(Newser) - Thursday’s shooting rampage at Fort Hood was just the latest example of how there really is no front line for US troops these days; Iraq and Afghanistan are entirely battlefields. So women are already, in effect, in combat, and anyone wanting still more proof that they can handle it... More »

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US military • Iraq war • Afghanistan war • President Obama • women in the military • Fort Hood • Fort Hood shooting • Nidal Malik Hasan • Kimberly Munley • women in combat

FORT HOOD SHOOTING

 Hasan Cleaned House, 
 Gave Much to Neighbors 

Suspect said he was Iraq-bound, offered mattress, food, clothes

Nov 6, 09 7:00 PM CST
(Newser) - Maj. Nidal Hasan cleaned out his off-base apartment in the days before yesterday’s shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, giving away many of his possessions to a neighbor, whom he told he was headed for Iraq and had no need of them. Patricia Villa tells the New York Times... More »

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fort hood shooting

  Blame 'Vicarious' PTSD 

Trauma is infectious, Essig writes, and therapists can catch it

Nov 6, 09 10:03 AM CST
(Newser) - When Todd Essig learned the Fort Hood shooter “was an Army psychiatrist who treats post traumatic stress disorder, himself on the cusp of deployment, I thought, ‘I’m not surprised.’” Why? Because there is a documented transfer of trauma disorders from sufferers to caregivers, dubbed “... More »

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 Fort Hood Death Toll Hits 13 

 SWAT teams, FBI scour suspect's home

Nov 6, 09 7:53 AM CST
(Newser) - The death toll from yesterday's shootings at Fort Hood hit 13 early this morning after a woman died of her injuries, a military spokeswoman says. A SWAT team and FBI agents raided the Killeen, Texas, home of suspected shooter Nidal Malik Hasan overnight in an effort to learn what could... More »

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ANALYSIS

Army's Stress Most Obvious
at Fort Hood

Repeat deployments prompt record levels of suicide, depression

Nov 6, 09 6:16 AM CST
(Newser) - Fort Hood has had more suicides than any other US Army facility since the start of the Iraq war, and while Nidal Hasan, the man officials say is responsible for yesterday's massacre, likely had unique motivations, he was perhaps only the most troubled member of a volunteer force buckling under... More »

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FORT HOOD SHOOTING

Gunman Hasan a Lifelong Muslim, Devout Soldier

He counseled returning soldiers with PTSD

Nov 5, 09 11:20 PM CST
(Newser) - The details emerging about Nidal Hasan, who authorities say is responsible for the worst mass killing on a US Army base, paint a picture of a man torn by contradictory loyalties. Hasan was a lifelong Muslim, an imam at his mosque said, but not an extremist. He had served 8... More »

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FORT HOOD SHOOTING

'Death Is Not Imminent' for Hasan Despite Multiple Shots

Plus, a report that he was yelling in Arabic

Nov 5, 09 9:23 PM CST
(Newser) - Suspected Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan isn’t mortally wounded despite taking at least four bullets, military officials say tonight. “I would say his death is not imminent,” notes a spokesman at the Texas military base where the Army psychiatrist killed 12 and injured 31 earlier... More »

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Corporate Leadership


 Manage Like a Marine 

Officers outline similarities between Iraq and the office

Nov 2, 09 1:58 PM CST
(Newser) - Marine officers Timothy Saint and Nicholas Smith "learned a lot about leadership and management that we wish someone had told us as boot lieutenants" during their service in Iraq, and most of it applies to young managers in the corporate world. They provide some guidance on Business Insider :
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Charles Krauthammer

Time to Act Presidential on Afghanistan

After 'yearlong drift,' Obama can't keep passing buck to Bush

Oct 30, 09 11:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama loves to blame things on George W. Bush, and on Monday he did it again, referring to the “long years of drift in Afghanistan.” He must be trying to “explain away his own, well, yearlong drift on Afghanistan,” writes Charles Krauthammer . In March, Obama... More »

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JUAN COLE

B+ for Obama Foreign Policy, F for Not Owning It

New prez is doing fine in Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, but no one notices

Oct 27, 09 11:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Despite the howls of protest over President Obama's Nobel Prize and the administration’s "dithering" on Afghanistan , the fact is that the new president’s foreign endeavors deserve good marks, says Juan Cole. Cole gives Obama an A for his Iranian statesmanship, a... More »

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Kristen Breitweiser

 Cheney Is 
 a 'Maniacal' 
 Hypocrite 

He accuses Obama of endangering troops?

Oct 22, 09 12:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Dick Cheney is accusing President Obama of "dithering" on Afghanistan and endangering troops. How rich, writes Kristen Breitweiser. What actually endangers troops "is bad judgment—particularly when exercised by an overzealous, power-hungry, maniacal Vice President like you." Cheney seems to have forgotten that the Iraq war—a... More »

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Injured Vets Seeking Closure Return to Iraq

Operation Proper Exit reveals war's progress to wounded

Oct 15, 09 4:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - The military has been aiding injured veterans to return to Iraq to help them find closure and assure them that their sacrifices were worth it. Operation Proper Exit—believed to be the first such program to facilitate vets' return to a battlefield while a war is still in progress—has... More »

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(AP) - At least 85,694 Iraqis lost their lives from 2004 to 2008 in violence, the Iraqi government said today in its first comprehensive tally released since the war began. Another 147,195 were wounded during that four-year period, says the Human Rights Ministry. The number includes Iraqi civilians, military, and... More »

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New Challenge for US in
Iraq: Pulling Out

Military faces mammoth task hauling equipment out of Iraq as withdrawal gathers pace

Oct 9, 09 6:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - American forces in Iraq have devoted a full sixth of their manpower to a task one commander compares to moving the entire population of Alaska across the world—with all their stuff. The military, in the biggest movement of personnel and material in over 40 years, is dismantling some 300... More »

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ANALYSIS

 Civilian Contractors Are the 'Vietnam Vets' of Our Time

Workers injured in war zones are the hidden cost of Iraq, Afghanistan wars

Oct 7, 09 7:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Thousands of Americans have come home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who are veterans in all but name, writes T. Christian Miller—and the benefits afforded veterans. The military's unprecedented reliance on civilian contractors has left thousands injured and disabled with no safety net or public gratitude. Whether... More »

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GLOSSIES

 Gay Iraqis Fear for Their Lives 

Human Rights Watch attempts to save persecuted gays from murder

Oct 5, 09 4:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - Iraqi society is overwhelmingly  homophobic, but that prejudice took a back seat to more pressing issues while war was raging. Now, as Shia militias find themselves with time on their hands, they appear to have turned to a perceived internal problem, “to make society clean from bad things.”... More »

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homophobia • homosexuality • refugee • Human Rights Watch • relocation • Iraqi militias • Iraq war • gay Iraqis • persecution

 Don't Forget 
 Iraqi Refugees: 
 Brangelina 

Stars visit with displaced people in Syria

Oct 2, 09 5:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are in Syria, using their powers for good. The celebrity übercouple visited Iraqi refugees in Damascus today in an attempt to keep the lowest-profile victims of the war from falling off the radar, People reports. Jolie, a goodwill ambassador for the UN's refugee agency,... More »

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Iraq • entertainment • Angelina Jolie • Syria • Brad Pitt • refugee • Damascus • Iraqi refugees • UN High Commissioner for Refugees • Iraq war • refugees

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