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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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Iraq war stories: 715 news summaries

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Soldier KIA,
But Adopted Puppy Comes
to America

He took in stray
in Iraqi war zone

Aug 8, 09 4:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - An Army major killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq has left a canine legacy—Laia, a stray puppy who made it back to America, the Los Angeles Times reports. Working on a transition team, Steven Hutchison found the dog loafing around his vehicle after a meeting. “Maj.... More »

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US military • psychology • puppy • dog • Iraq war • Afghanistan war • war dead • Steven Hutchison

Soldier's Dad Flying Tattered Flag Until Son Comes Home

He resists calls to replace with new one

Aug 5, 09 1:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - A California man who promised to fly the American flag until his son comes home from Iraq is getting a little heat—along with sympathy—for the tattered condition of Old Glory, reports Fox News. Louis Haros’ son, Paul, will be home this week after a tour—his second—that... More »

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California • US military • Vietnam veteran • Iraq war • American flag • American soldiers • AMVETS • Louis Haros

(Newser) - Two former Blackwater employees accused company founder and CEO Erik Prince of murder in statements filed in federal court this week, the Nation reports. The former guards, including an ex-Marine, say Prince may have either killed or facilitated the killing of operatives probing the security contractor's Iraq operations. The investigators... More »

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 Long Wars Fray  
 Military Marriages 

Brief homecomings make healing difficult

Aug 4, 09 4:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - With the Iraq and Afghanistan wars dragging on, long, multiple deployments are taking a toll on military families, USA Today reports. Troops develop instincts on the battlefield that don’t translate at home, while spouses learn to live independently—and when troops return home, there’s often too little time... More »

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divorce • military spouses • military families • Iraq war • returning troops • troops' families • Afghanistan war • separation

(AP) - Bombs exploded near five Shiite mosques in Baghdad today, killing at least 29 people, according to Iraqi police and hospital officials. The bombings, apparently part of a coordinated attack that targeted worshipers leaving Friday prayers, shattered a period of relative calm in the Iraqi capital. The deaths raised to at... More »

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Shiite • Baghdad • Sunni militants • Iraq pullout • troop withdrawal • mosque • Iraq war

(Newser) - The US should get out of Iraq sooner rather than later, a top Army officer wrote in a recent memo obtained by the Washington Independent. Col. Timothy Reese, the chief of the Baghdad Operations Command Advisory Team, says American forces “smell bad to the Iraqi nose,” and... More »

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Iraq • Baghdad • US military • timetable • Iraq war • Iraq exit strategy • Status of Forces Agreement • Timothy Reese

OPINION

 Media Should 
 Learn From 
 Cronkite: Grow 
 a Backbone 


Today's press too cozy with Washington

Jul 26, 09 9:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - It wasn’t Walter Cronkite’s “avuncular persona” or his reaction to the JFK assassination that made him “the most trusted man in America,” Frank Rich writes in the New York Times—it was his willingness to challenge the halls of power. That’s become increasingly rare... More »

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media • Washington Post • press • Frank Rich • American media • Iraq war • Walter Cronkite • Mark Sanford

(Newser) - The rift between American and Iraqi forces got a lot wider after a shooting incident in Baghdad this week, the Washington Post reports. When insurgents attacked their convoy Tuesday, US forces pursued them through alleys, and raided several houses, killing two men and a boy. An Iraqi commander ordered the... More »

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Iraq • Baghdad • US military • Iraqi security forces • Iraq war • security agreement

 Iraq Pullout on Target: 
 Obama, Maliki 

Obama plays down Iraqi limits on US forces as 'differences in strategy'

Jul 22, 09 4:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama met with Nouri al-Maliki today and vowed to keep to his timetable that has all US forces out of Iraq by 2011, the Washington Post reports. The Iraqi prime minister said that his country’s security forces are now “highly capable” of handling the threat posed by... More »

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Iraq • Barack Obama • Nouri al-Maliki • troop withdrawal • prime minister • Iraq war • Obama administration • President Obama

(Newser) - An internal State Department assessment has deemed the recently completed US embassy in Baghdad grievously overstaffed, McClatchy Newspapers report. “There is a clear consensus from the top to the bottom of the embassy,” State’s inspector general writes. “The time has come for a significant rightsizing.”... More »

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Bush administration • Baghdad • State Department • US embassy in Baghdad • diplomat • Iraq war • report • rightsizing • overstaffed

 US Troop Deaths 
 Pass 5K in Iraq, 
 Afghanistan 

Deadliest month so far in Afghanistan

Jul 21, 09 6:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - The combined death toll among US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan has passed 5,000, USA Today reports. The Pentagon says 4,332 have died in Iraq and 669 in Afghanistan. At least 30 American troops have died in Afghanistan in July, the deadliest month in the nearly 8-year-old war,... More »

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Iraq • Afghanistan • death toll • Iraq war • Afghanistan war • troop deaths

(Newser) - Ron Paul is disappointed in everybody, Politico reports. President Obama “became the peace candidate: ‘Yeah, we’re going to end that war in Iraq,’” the Texas congressman and erstwhile presidential candidate says. “But it’s not sincere.” And though Republican opposition to Obama’s... More »

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Barack Obama • Ron Paul • Republican Party • spending • Iraq war

Gates: Public Won't Stand
for 'Long Slog' in Afghanistan

Turnaround must happen within year

Jul 19, 09 2:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - Americans aren’t going to put up with a ‘long slog’ in Afghanistan, says Robert Gates: if the public doesn’t see things getting better within a year, support for the war will likely falter, he tells the Los Angeles Times. “After the Iraq experience, nobody is prepared... More »

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Afghanistan • Congress • Robert Gates • defense secretary • Iraq war • Afghanistan war • F-22 fighter jet • public opinion

(Newser) - The Iraq government has tightly restricted the movements and activities of American troops remaining in cities, and some commanders blame the restrictions for a rise in attacks, the Washington Post. The day after Iraqis celebrated the pullback of US troops to outside cities, Iraq ordered the US military to cease... More »

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Iraq • Baghdad • US military • Iraq government • Shiite insurgents • Iraq Army • Iraq war • al-Qaeda in Iraq

(Newser) - British troops called Iraqi detainees "apes," beat them so that their moans of pain sounded like an "orchestrated choir," and forced them to dance like Michael Jackson, a public inquiry into the death of one of the detainees heard yesterday. The inquiry panel was told... More »

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Iraq • Basra • detainee • British Army • British military • inquiry • Iraq war • Baha Mousa

ANALYSIS

 Would Rummy 
 Pull a McNamara 
 and Apologize? 

Not anytime soon, says his biographer

Jul 12, 09 8:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Robert McNamara, the architect of the Vietnam War, eventually expressed regret for the conflict—but would Donald Rumsfeld ever apologize for Iraq? Unlikely—at least not anytime soon, writes a Rumsfeld biographer in the Washington Post. Thus far, the former secretary of Defense “has never appeared to waver in... More »

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Donald Rumsfeld • apology • Vietnam War • Iraq war • George W. Bush • Robert McNamara

Evidence Tying Cheney to Plame Leak Grows

Obama DoJ renews Bush-era objections
to releasing details

Jul 3, 09 1:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Obama Justice Department is continuing its efforts to maintain the Bush administration's secrecy over Dick Cheney's role in the Valerie Plame CIA leak scandal, the Washington Post reports. A filing this week, intended to bolster the current administration’s case for keeping secret details of the then-VP’s... More »

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Bush administration • Dick Cheney • Department of Justice • Valerie Plame • Patrick Fitzgerald • Joseph Wilson • CIA leak investigation • vice president • Iraq war • Obama administration • legal filing

Saddam's FBI Interviews Released

Says WMD fiction was aimed at Iran; he wanted pact with US

Jul 2, 09 12:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Transcripts of Saddam Hussein's two dozen interviews with the FBI before his execution were released yesterday, after details were published last week by the New York Daily News, which obtained them through the Freedom of Information Act. Some details are still redacted, but the FBI says no "enhanced" techniques... More »

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Iraq • Iran • Saddam Hussein • FBI • weapons of mass destruction • Iraq war

(Newser) - Lynndie England is trying to rebuild some semblance of a normal life, but her past continues to haunt her, she tells the AP. “It’s my face that's always recognized,” the former Army Reservist and poster child for Abu Ghraib abuse said of trying to get a job—... More »

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Abu Ghraib • US military • abuse • prisoners • detainee • US Army • biography • West Virginia • Lynndie England • Iraq war

 Iraqis Applaud US Exit, 
 but Fears Linger 

US troops quit Iraqi cities June 30; some see economic boon

Jun 21, 09 1:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Many Iraqis are looking forward to the departure of US troops from the country’s cities June 30—but what that means for security remains to be seen, Reuters reports. “Anyone who wants to fight them can go there and attack their bases without harming civilians,” says one... More »

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Iraq • Iraq pullout • US troops • troop withdrawal • Mosul • cities • Iraq war

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