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US, Canadian soldiers die as Afghan violence surges
Robert Birsel Reuters March 31, 2006
The Taliban attacked a military base in Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing a U.S. and a Canadian soldier and losing 32 of their own men, and declared a spring offensive had begun.
For Abu Ghraib, a limited prosecution
Mark Sappenfield Christien Science Monitor March 31, 2006
"Officers of the United States military are responsible," said Gen. John Abizaid. "Every officer is responsible for what his or her unit does or fails to do."
U.S. officials: Iraqi insurgents educating Afghan, Pakistani militants
Jonathan S. Landay and John Walcott Knight Ridder March 31, 2006
Islamic militants in Iraq are providing military training and other assistance to Taliban and al Qaida fighters from eastern and southern Afghanistan and Pakistan's tribal areas, U.S. intelligence officials told Knight Ridder.
Afghan forces kill six Taliban in gunbattle
Jerusalem Post March 31, 2006
We sent our soldiers there after a number of Taliban entered those villages and briefly took control," he said
Blasts shake coalition base in Kandahar
MSN March 31, 2006
Three explosions apparently caused by rockets rattled the main coalition airbase that is home to Canadian troops in Kandahar early Friday
Taliban raid Afghan police posts
Reuters March 31, 2006
Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban insurgents raided several police posts in Afghanistan on Friday and six of the attackers were killed, a provincial official said.
Hire a Hero Unfortunately he's right. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the national Unemployment rate is hovering around 4.8 percent. But for veterans of the Global War on Terror (GWOT), the unemployment rate is more than three times higher -- 15.6 percent. Why? Part of the answer is found in the fact that so few corporate executives and personnel managers are veterans themselves. Couple that with a drumbeat of adverse publicity about the war, a mainstream media fixation on military “atrocities” and the constant harping about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder -- PTSD -- and one has to wonder how any war veteran gets hired.
Military.com March 31, 2006
Soldier still fighting after return from Iraq
Norton Mirror /Massachusetts March 31, 2006
Although First Sergeant Russell Anderson returned from Iraq to his Norton home in February 2005, the battle still rages for him as he seeks to return to the life he knew before his deployment
Army Bans Use of Privately Bought Armor
Military.com March 31, 2006
Just six months after the Pentagon agreed to reimburse soldiers who bought their own protective gear, the Army has banned the use of any body armor that is not issued by the military
Military Health System Transforming to Address New Challenges
Samantha L. Quigley American Forces Press Service/Defense Link March 31, 2006
The armed forces have more than 275,000 servicemembers in Afghanistan, Iraq and other areas around the world,.....The department is firmly committed to protecting the health of these and all servicemembers before, during and after their deployment and (of) our other healthcare beneficiaries, who now number 9 million,"
Sectarian threats purge 30,000 Iraqis from homes
Ahmed Rasheed Yahoo March 31, 2006
Sectarian violence has displaced more than 30,000 Iraqis -- victims of gunmen who warn them to leave or die -- since a Shi'ite shrine was bombed last month, the government said on Wednesday
Shiite Ayatollah Ignores Letter From Bush
QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Guardian Unlimited - UK March 31, 2006
A letter from President Bush to Iraq's supreme Shiite spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, was hand-delivered earlier this week but sits unread and untranslated in the top religious figure's office, a key al-Sistani aide told The Associated Press on Thursday
US encouraged by Tehran's enemy within
Simon Tisdall Guardian Unlimited - UK March 31, 2006
Increased repression and unrest affecting Iran's numerous ethnic and religious minorities are providing new opportunities for the US
500billion.com Holds Iraq War Spending Alternatives Contest
500Billion.com PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA March 31, 2006
The Iraq War Spending contest is the brainchild of James Love. “I want to help average Americans concretely understand the scale of money being spent on the Iraq war and spark a debate on the lost opportunity costs of the war.”
NATO could cover all Afghanistan by August-general
Mark John Reuters March 31, 2006
NATO is capable of taking over peacekeeping duties across all of Afghanistan as early as August if member nations want, the alliance's top commander of operations said on Friday
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