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WWII Vet Sending Thousands Of Pirated Movies To U.S. Troops

The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 04.28.2012

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Meet Hyman Strachman, probably the nation's most patriotic movie pirate. For the past eight years the 92-year-old widowed World War II veteran has ...

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Iraqi Leader Calls For Unity, Political Stability

AP | BUSHRA JUHI | Posted 03.02.2012

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BAGHDAD — Iraq's prime minister called Sunday for unity and greater political stability to ensure the country's security after the end of the Am...

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Iraq Issues Arrest Warrant For Sunni VP

AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 02.18.2012

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BAGHDAD — Iraq's Shiite-led government issued an arrest warrant Monday for the Sunni vice president, accusing him of running a hit squad that as...

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Last US Troops Leave Iraq

AP | REBECCA SANTANA | Posted 02.16.2012

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KHABARI CROSSING, Kuwait — The last U.S. soldiers rolled out of Iraq across the border to neighboring Kuwait at daybreak Sunday, whooping, fist ...

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The Iraq War In Numbers

Posted 12.15.2011

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When 2011 draws to a close, the U.S. will have withdrawn nearly all its troops from Iraq. "After nearly nine years, America's war in Iraq will be over...

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Kuwaiti Defense Minister Says No Additional U.S. Troops

AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 01.07.2012

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WASHINGTON — U.S. and Kuwaiti defense officials say they have not yet reached agreement on an American proposal to station at least 4,000 additi...

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HUNKER IN THE BUNKER: U.S. Plan For Iraq Is To Fall Back To The Mother Of All Embassies

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 11.16.2011

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WASHINGTON -- American combat troops in Iraq may be heading to the exits -- or not -- but the U.S. government's enormously expensive intervention ther...

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South Iraq: Where The War Is Not Over

AP | REBECCA SANTANA | Posted 11.15.2011

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COS GARRY OWEN, Iraq — Soldiers at this base sleep with their shoes on so they don't cut their feet running under rocket fire. Elsewhere in Iraq...

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10,000 U.S. Troops Reportedly On Offer For Iraq

AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 09.04.2011

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BAGHDAD — The White House is offering to keep up to 10,000 troops in Iraq next year, U.S. officials say, despite opposition from many Iraqis and...

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Biden Visits Iraq To Mark Formal End To U.S. Combat

AP | LARA JAKES and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — Vice President Joe Biden sought Monday to reassure Iraq that America is not abandoning it as the U.S. military steps back and a stalem...

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Combat Troops Advisors

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Boehner Hits Obama, Reid, Pelosi For Opposing Iraq Surge (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Boehner released a gloating Iraq war video in advance of President Obama's Oval Office address on the drawdown of combat troops in Iraq. The yo...

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Laura Bush Welcomes Home 145 Troops, Honors Mother

Tonic | Katie Leavitt | Posted 05.25.2011

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This week has been filled with fun and honorable work for Laura Bush. Wednesday, she and hubby, former President George W. Bush, gave a surprise welc...

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More US Troops in Afghanistan than Iraq, a first

AP | ANNE GEARAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — More U.S. forces are serving in Afghanistan than in Iraq, the Pentagon said Monday, a first since the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq an...

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US reviewing Iraq troop pullout pace

AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — American commanders, worried about increased violence in the wake of Iraq's inconclusive elections, are now reconsidering the pace of ...

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Ekaterine Bautista, Iraq War Veteran, May Be Denied Citizenship

Posted 05.25.2011

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By Anna Gorman, Los Angeles Times Just five days before Ekaterine Bautista planned to become an American citizen, she got a call from the federal ...

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Forget Tiger's Problems and Find the Heroes Now...

Joe Favorito | Posted 05.25.2011

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As we enter the holiday season and follow the seemingly endless path to destruction Tiger Woods may be on, take pause and look a little harder for some of the good out there being done by our gifted athletes.

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US To Send Home Thousands More Troops From Iraq

AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The top general in Iraq is sending home 4,000 more U.S. troops by the end of October as the American military winds down the six-ye...

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Ex-US Soldier Gets 5 Life Sentences For Iraqi Deaths

AP | BRETT BARROUQUERE | Posted 05.25.2011

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PADUCAH, Ky. — A former soldier received five consecutive life sentences Friday for his role in the rape and murder of an Iraqi teenager and the...

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Gates: Some US Troops May Be Leaving Iraq Early

AP | ANNE GEARAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT — A combat brigade of 5,000 American troops may be brought home early from Iraq if the trend of reduced violence...

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Gates In Iraq

AP | ANNE GEARAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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TALIL, Iraq — U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates got a firsthand look Tuesday at the future of the U.S. military mission in southern Iraq. Gat...

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Obama: Iraq Will See "Tough Days Ahead," But Pullout On Schedule

AP | STEVEN R. HURST | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said he pressed Iraq's prime minister on Wednesday to make room in his government and security forces for al...

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Iraq Imposes Strict New Restrictions On U.S. Forces. Commanders Concerned

Washington Post | Ernesto Londoño and Karen DeYoung | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Iraqi government has moved to sharply restrict the movement and activities of U.S. forces in a new reading of a six-month-old U.S.-Iraqi security ...

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4 US Soldiers Killed During Iraq Cities Pullout

AP | HAMZA HENDAWI | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — Not a single American soldier was in sight. Gone, too, were the American helicopters whose buzz has for years defined Baghdad's backgr...

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US Troops To Withdraw From Iraq: Celebrations Begin In Baghdad

AP | KIM GAMEL and PATRICK QUINN | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD -- (AP) Iraqi forces assumed formal control of Baghdad and other cities Tuesday after American troops handed over security in urban areas in a...

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