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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
An Army veteran admitted in federal court Friday to plotting with his wife to bilk the U.S. government by faking paralysis after a car wreck to get disability benefits and avoid being deployed to Iraq.
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Kansas City Star (Free subscription) | yesterday
Iraq's foreign minister has reiterated his country's request for a high-level international envoy to investigate the extent of foreign involvement in recent bombings of government institutions.
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | yesterday
Iraq's foreign minister has reiterated his country's request for a high-level international envoy to investigate the extent of foreign involvement in recent bombings of government institutions.
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BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
A woman killed in a crash in south Cumbria was a former RAF officer who had served in Kosovo and Iraq, it has emerged.
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Iraqi children have been deprived of almost all the fun due to war and violence since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, except football game as they love it too much to give it up. Kids can be seen in many places here in Baghdad playing their national pastime, the only way to make them neglect temporarily their grief over the past years in the war-torn country. In an ordinary Baghdad sunset, two teams...
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The BN Village (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
The need for security services in Iraq has led many Africans to go there and take up these risky jobs. However, some have returned with the money they've made, doing this security work, to set-up businesses and buy land. Nayland House: Why Ugandans want to work in Iraq (BBC) Would you ever take on a risky job in another part of the world if it meant you could make some good money and return back home...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Basim al-Dafaie, an Iraqi poet, was optimistic when he saw the restoration of art and poetry festival in his province of Diyala after four years of turbulence and violence. "Life begins with hope and definitely one day the adversity will be removed and the smile will return again on the children's lips," said Dafaie, whose final lines of his poem he delivered in the first poetic festival,...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
“The Messenger” portrays conflict on the home front: the struggles of those who tell the next of kin their loved ones are dead.
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DVIDS RSS 2.0 Feed (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
When he learned in April about his upcoming deployment, then Lt. Col. Rudy Arruda, a Yreka native, started preparing, like most people, by informing his family, friends and co-workers about his news.
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
The Defense Department says 29-year-old Army Staff Sgt. Amy C. Tirador of Albany, N.Y., has died in Kirkush, Iraq, of injuries suffered in a non-combat-related incident. No details were provided.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
FORT LEWIS, Wash. -- The Defense Department says 29-year-old Army Staff Sgt. Amy C. Tirador of Albany, N.Y., has died in Kirkush, Iraq, of injuries suffered in a non-combat-related incident. No details were provided.
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Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
The British military has reported 179 deaths; Italy, 33; Ukraine, 18; Poland, 21; Bulgaria, 13; Spain, 11; Denmark, seven; El Salvador, five; Slovakia, four; Latvia and Georgia, three each; Estonia, Netherlands, Thailand and Romania, two each; and Australia, Hungary, Kazakhstan and South Korea, one death each.
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CNN (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Iraqi parliament members adjourned on Saturday without reaching an accord on a controversial new elections law, and the lawmakers could make another try to forge and pass legislation tomorrow.
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Sify (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
. 6, 2009, at least 4,359 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
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legaleagle1 | 05/10/2009
[Print] [Email] British firm fined for breaching UN sanctions in Iraq, corruption in Jamaica, Ghana Associated Press 09/25/09 1:35 PM PDT LONDON — A British bridge-building company was fined 3.5 million pounds ($5.6 million) on Friday for breaching United Nations sanctions in Iraq and for corruption offenses in Jamaica and Ghana. The Serious Fraud Office said the case against Mabey & Johnson Ltd. was...
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abdulruff | 10/07/2009
Few US-led terror Forces Quit Iraq, at Last! By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal ----- Global media with a sense of “democratic pride announced that on 2009 30 June Tuesday, US troops have withdrawn from towns and cities in Iraq, six years after the invasion ostensibly to locate Osama and his hidden nukes, having formally handed over security duties to new Iraqi forces. A public holiday - National Sovereignty...