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WATCH: Quadruple Amputee Soldier Stands 6 Weeks After Injury

Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Ied, Beyond the Battlefield, Injured Soldiers, Slideexpand, Travis Mills, Afghanistan War Veterans, Travis Mills Quadruple Amputee, Walter Reed Medical Center, How to Help, Afghanistan War, Impact News

Just a little over a month after Travis Mills lost all four limbs to an improvised explosive device, the staff sergeant is making big plans for the fu...

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The Spirit Of Memorial Day: Remembering Those Who Didn't Return

Andrew Lubin | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Memorial Day, Usmc, Kandahar, Jim Anderson, Marines, Military, Army, Afghanistan, Air Force, Ied, Chris Anderson, Impact News

That's the spirit of Memorial Day; it's the remembrance of those who didn't come back alive, and a celebration of the esprit-de-corps and how they lived their lives.God bless the United States and those who stand watch over us tonight.

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First(-ish) Clear Link Between Anti-US Iraq Violence and Iran

Peter Van Buren | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Iran, Justice Department, Weapons, Singapore, Ied, Politics News

Is the US going to war with Iran next week? No, none of this is aimed that high. What we are seeing is a more clever tamping up of public rhetoric, a base that if the US chooses to do so, will serve as the next step in an ongoing war of mostly, for now, words.

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House approves another $2.7 billion for failed anti-roadside bomb program despite already spending $21 billion with little results

The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: Pentagon, House of Representatives, Defense Spending, Department of Defense, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ied, JEIDDO, Politics News

By Corbin Hiar, iWatch News Despite unprecedented budgetary pressures, a recently passed House appropriations bill would both increase the ove...

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WATCH: Disabled Veteran's Charity Home Blocked By Homeowners Association

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 08.30.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Handicap-Accessible, Disabled, Army, Veteran, Ied, Aol Real Estate, Homeowners Association, Knob Hill, Homes for Troops, Housing Crisis, Kuwait Conflict, Business News

Even after laying his life on the line for the country, and sustaining injuries because of it, Sean Gittens couldn't get the charity house he was offe...

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Measuring Quick Sand

Matthew Hoh | Posted 08.09.2011

Read More: Petraeus, Henry Kissinger, War, Al-Anbar, Anbar Awakening, Afghanistan, Obama, Iraq, Merkley, Afghanistan Study Group, Karzai, Ied, World News

All of the data and evidence available makes it clear: the insurgency's momentum and tempo of operations has not been adversely affected by our surge in Afghanistan.

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As Afghan War Enters Tenth Fighting Season, IED Casualties On The Rise

HuffingtonPost.com | David Wood | Posted 07.10.2011

Read More: Ied Afghanistan, Ieds Afghanistan, Jieddo, US Casualties, Roadside Bombs, Ied, Afghan War, Afghanistan Casualties, Ieds, World News

Despite nearly a decade of costly and sometimes frantic struggle, the United States military has been unable to control the Afghan insurgents' most de...

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When Manholes Explode, New Yorkers Shrug

Tom Bisky | Posted 05.25.2011

As audio-visual phenomena, the volcanic blasts from manhole-accessed underground pipes are nothing short of spectacular -- but we New Yorkers are getting used to them.

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Pfc. Ryan Grady Killed In Afghanistan: Vermont National Guardsman's Body Brought Back To U.S.

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afghan War, Ryan Grady, Afghanistan, Ied, Vermont National Guard, Dover Air Force Base, Vermont, Oklahoma, Purple Heart, Casualties, Home News

Army Pfc. Ryan J. Grady's body was brought to U.S. soil Sunday when the aircraft carrying the slain soldier, father, brother, and husband landed at Do...

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ReThink Review: Bulletproof Salesman -- Warzone Safety For Sale

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bulletproof Salesman, Petra Epperlein, Cenk Uygur, Rethink Reviews, Film, War Profiteering, War in Iraq, Ied, Movie Reviews, Iraq War, Jonathan Kim, Fidelis Cloer, Michael Tucker, The Young Turks, Iraq, Movie Critic, Entertainment News

Due to its scarcity, safety may be the most precious commodity of all in a warzone. And since scarcity raises prices, it's the rich and well connected...

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A Hundred Years of War

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Shia, Fundamentalism, Al Qaeda, President Obama, War on Terror, Afpak, Iraq, Car Bombs, Cold War, Suicide Bombs, I.E.D., Dick Cheney, Iran, Religion, Jihad, Drone Attacks, Iraq Invasion, Middle East, Liz Cheney, Saudi Arabia, Secular, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Sunni, Islamicization, World News

Drone attacks are terrorism too. Killing entire families, including women and children, in the "border" areas of the "AF-PAK" theater to hit one "militant" or "extremist," without charge or trial, repeated countless times.

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Kyle Wright, Romeoville Soldier, Killed In Afghanistan (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kandahar, Romeoville, Afghanistan, Chicago, Roadside Bomb, Kyle Wright, Stryker, Ied, Video, Chicago News

Army Specialist Kyle Wright was killed Wednesday as an improvised explosive device hit his Stryker vehicle in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Wright was a nat...

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Iran Admitted Attacks On Western Troops In Iraq: UK Ambassador

BBC | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mohammad Khatami, Sir John Sawers, War With Iran, Ied, Iran Iraq Violence, Iran Iraq, Ied Attacks, Iran, US Iran Iraq Talks, Khatami, Ahmadinejad, World News

Iran offered to stop attacking British troops in Iraq to try to get the West to drop objections to Tehran's uranium enrichment project, a UK official ...

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Unfit for the Presidency: John McCain and His Personal IED

Gary Cohan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mental Disorders, John McCain, Alzheimer's Disease, Government Bailout, Economic Crisis, Election 2008, Iraq, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Ied, Rage, Impulsivity, Neophyte, Politics News

One thought that keeps entering my medically-trained mind is a strange coincidence of acronyms that may explain why John McCain is psychologically unfit to be our next President.

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Army Operations Chief: "The IED Problem Is Getting Out Of Control. We've Got To Stop The Bleeding."

Washington Post | Rick Atkinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afghanistan, Iraq, IED, Army Casualties, Home News

By the late summer of 2002, as the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington approached, an American victory in Afghanistan...

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