Fallujah

Community Helps Heal Vet's Severely Injured Dog

thegranbys.patch.com | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Granby Memorial High, The Grandbys, Taylor Verbridge, Connecticut, Greatest-Person-of-the-Day, Iraq, Belgian Malinois, Nate Larabee, Marine, Fallujah, Impact News

This is a story about the local girl, the Iraq war veteran and the injured dog and how a community has rallied around all three. The story begins o...

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The End of the Iraq War and the Beginning of an Election Year

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 02.18.2012

In today's parlance, Iraq looks like a war that was brought to us by the 1 percent, for the 1 percent, and attempting to further some ill-defined geopolitical goal of the 1 percent.

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Giggling in Fallujah

Fatemeh Keshavarz | Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Iraq War, Iraq Veterans, Sanctions Against Iran, Iran Nuclear Program, Fallujah, Fatemeh Keshavarz, Religion News

Perfectly respectable American politicians proposing crippling sanctions to hurt ordinary Iranians so they rise up against their regime. It sounds like a confused dream. But it isn't.

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Troops Celebrate Last Thanksgiving In Iraq

AP | By REBECCA SANTANA | Posted 11.24.2011

Read More: Gen. Lloyd Austin, Iraq War, Holidays, Video, Iraq Troops, Thanksgiving Iraq, Thanksgiving, Baghdad, Iraq, Kuwait, Fallujah, Impact News

COS ECHO, Iraq -- American troops marked their last Thanksgiving in Iraq Thursday with turkey, stuffing and a rocket fire alarm. Fewer than 20,000 Am...

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Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Blaming Blackwater For Grisly Deaths

AP | MIKE BAKER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blackwater, Blackwater Lawsuit Dismissed, Fallujah, Blackwater Lawsuit, Politics News

RALEIGH, N.C. — A federal judge has tossed a lawsuit that blamed the security company formerly known as Blackwater for the deaths of four contra...

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Peddling War to Children

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: America's Army, Adolescence, Fallujah, Gaming, Military Recruiting, Video Games, War, Politics News

What an obscenity, it seems to me, to exploit the yearning of the young, and feign a solidarity with it, in order to perpetuate a system that will in all likelihood simply chew them up.

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Car Bombs Kill 36 In Baghdad, Fallujah

AP | BARBARA SURK | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Combat Forces, Military, Terrorism, Baghdad, Pull Out, Insurgents, Mansour, Iraq, Car Bombs, US, Withdrawal, Fallujah, World News

BAGHDAD — Three car bombs tore through Baghdad and the former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah Sunday, killing at least 36 people. The blasts in...

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Honoring Our Nations Veterans as Cancer Stricken Soldiers Go Ignored

R. B. Stuart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Burn Pits, The Guardian, Icbuw, Cnn, Veterans, Afp, Usmc, R. B. Stuart, Iraq, Depleted Uranium, SGT Cody Feeback, Camp Lejeune, Camp Pendleton, Kuwait, Fallujah, Kidney Cancer, Wilms-Tumor, World News

Our military has already chosen to die for their country -- but does that include by the hand of Big Pharma too?

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Mixing Pulp and Politics: An Interview with Doonesbury's Garry Trudeau

Dan Lybarger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Garry Trudeau, Zonker Harris, 40 a Donesbury Retrospective, B.D., The Watchmen, Comics, Graphic Novel, Uncle Duke, Cartoon, Doonesbury, Fallujah, Interview, Prop 19, Arts News

Thanks to a crew of lovable, dynamic if not always clearheaded characters, Doonesbury is still a vital part of the national discussion.

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What If?: The Battle That Did Not Have to Happen

David Isenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: History, Blackwater, Fallujah, US Marines, Private Security Contractors, World News

What if Paul Bremer hadn't disbanded the Iraqi army? What if the U.S. military had done something different after four Blackwater contractors were killed in Fallujah in 2004?

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Blair's Bounty

James Denselow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Iraq, Fallujah, Tony Blair, World News

Blair should have looked to Iraq, where tens of thousands of civilians have been killed, to locate his philanthropy. One simple way of doing this would have been to donate towards hospital facilities in Fallujah

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The Suffering of Fallujah

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Language, Cancer, Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons, Depleted Uranium, Hiroshima, Fallujah, War, Politics News

Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Fallujah . . . And so it turns out that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, though not until we arrived and started ...

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Self-Immolation Remains Common Among Afghan Women

The Huffington Post | Nicholas Sabloff and Doug Sarro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nato, Self-Immolation, James Mattis, Kurram Region, Fallujah, Middle East, Pakistan, Centcom, David Petraeus, Military, Afghanistan, Afghan Women, United States Central Command, Video, World News

Today's AfPak round-up: Self-immolation remains common among Afghan women. Observers disagree over why Afghan women attempt to take their own lives b...

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Julio Huertas, Navy SEAL, Cleared In Iraq Abuse Case By U.S. Military Jury

AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Julio Huertas, Navy, Seal, Julio-Huertas-Court-Martial, Julio Huertas Iraq, Iraq, Iraq Abuse, Euphrates, Fallujah, Ahmed Hashim Abed, Blackwater, World News

BAGHDAD — A U.S. Navy SEAL was cleared Thursday of charges he covered up the alleged beating of an Iraqi prisoner suspected of masterminding the...

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Fallujah Birth Defects Raise Specter Of U.S. Chemical-Weapons Use In Iraq (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Birth Defects Fallujah, Chemical Weapons, Fallujah, Chemical Weapons Fallujah, Cnn, Birth Defects Iraq, Chemical Weapons Iraq, Iraq, Birth Defects, Video, World News

A large and growing number of Iraqi children are suffering from severe birth defects, as shown in the heartbreaking CNN segment embedded below, and th...

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Doctors Blame U.S. Weapons for Birth Defects in Fallujah

BBC News | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, u.s. Military Iraq, Fallujah Birth Defects, Iraq, Fallujah Iraq, Fallujah, World News

Doctors in the Iraqi city of Fallujah are reporting a high level of birth defects, with some blaming weapons used by the US after the Iraq invasion....

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Huge Rise In Birth Defects In Falluja (Video)

guardian.co.uk | Martin Chulov in Falluja | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Falluja, Iraq War, Birth Defects Iraq, Birth Defects, Iraq, Fallujah, World News

Doctors in Iraq's war-ravaged enclave of Falluja are dealing with up to 15 times as many chronic deformities in infants and a spike in early life canc...

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The Stigma of PTSD

Jeremiah Workman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Afghanistan, Fallujah, Veterans, Ptsd, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, World News, Healthy Living News

Nutcase. Psycho. Unbalanced. These are some of the words I've been tagged with since being diagnosed with PTSD. Our society's image of the returning warrior with PTSD has been framed by Hollywood.

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The War at Home

Jeremiah Workman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ptsd, Afghanistan, Fallujah, Veterans, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, World News

I learned the hard way that the war doesn't stop when our boots touch home soil again, it just changes form. We're tough guys who don't need help. For generations, that's been the ethos in the military.

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Snake Eyes in Afghanistan

Derrick Crowe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Civilian Deaths, Mubashar Jawed Akbar, Al-Qaida, Just War Theory, Pakistan, Nir Rosen, Robert Greene, Mullah Omar, Just War Criteria, Balochistan, Drones, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, P.W. Singer, Augustine, Geoff Morrell, Nonviolence, Ambrose, Fallujah, Rethink Afghanistan, Civilian Casualties, The 33 Strategies of War, Al-Qaeda, Taliban, Afghanistan, Wired for War, Quetta, World News

None of the credible options in Afghanistan offer real chances for rolling back the insurgent reaction to our presence or reducing terrorism against the United States.

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Iraqi Shot After Throwing Slipper At US Patrol

AP | ABDUL-QADIR AL-SAADI | Posted 05.25.2011

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FALLUJAH, Iraq — American Marines shot and wounded an Iraqi man in the former flash point city of Fallujah believing he was throwing a grenade a...

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Camp Bucca: Military Closes Largest Detention Camp In Iraq

AP | JASON KEYSER | Posted 05.25.2011

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CAMP BUCCA, Iraq — The U.S. military on Wednesday closed Camp Bucca, an isolated desert prison that was once its largest lockup in Iraq, as it m...

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Falluja Violence Tests Iraq Leading Up To US Withdrawal

New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Iraq War Wire, Fallujah-Iraq, War Wire, Foreign Affairs, Iraq Security, Falluja, Iraq Withdrawal, Iraq, Fallujah, Advocacy, World News

Falluja was supposed to be a success story, not a cautionary tale. After all, by last year the city, a former insurgent stronghold, was considered on...

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Iraq's "Teflon Don"

Dahr Jamail | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq Reconstruction, Iraq Surge, Anbar Awakening, Warwire, Iraq, Sheik Aifan Sadun, Fallujah, World News

Today, 34-year-old Sheik Aifan Sadun may be the richest man in Falluhah, thanks to his alliance of self-interest with U.S. forces.

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Blackwater Expanding Domestic Reach

Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Murder, GoLeft.T, Mike Papantonio, Trial, Golefttv, Mercenary, Dick Cheney, Fallujah, Army, Erik Prince, Air America Radio, Blackwater, Iraq War, Hurricane Katrina, George W Bush, Ring of Fire, Contractor, Politics News

The congressmen and advocacy groups that are trying to shut Blackwater down are being branded as un-American, unpatriotic liberals by the Prince family loyalists.

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