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21 hrs ago | www.dailystar.co.uk | lois sprague

British soldiers in Iraq: "Ridiculously underprepared"

GORDON Brown and David Cameron have apologised for using a Remembrance Day service as a photo opportunity.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Iraq, World News

21 hrs ago | www.express.co.uk | lois sprague

Secret files show Blair's 'chaos' over the Iraq war

THE lives of British soldiers were put at 'significant' risk by an 'appalling' lack of preparation in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, a leaked official report revealed yesterday.

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Related Topix: Iraq, World News

22 hrs ago | www.armytimes.com | lois sprague

Major revamp possible for M4 carbine

The Army is considering a major redesign of the M4 aimed at making the weapon shoot cleaner and longer - at high rates of fire.

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Sat Nov 21, 2009

MilitaryCity.com

New IED map symbols help cut threat

Improvised explosive devices have been the largest source of casualties in the war zone and remain a persistent problem.

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Related Topix: US Army, US Military, Leavenworth, KS

Fri Nov 20, 2009

www.ledger-enquirer.com | lois sprague

SOA Watch marks 20th anniversary of assassinations

It was 6 a.m. on Nov. 16, 1989, when a gardener named Obdulio Ramos saw that six Jesuit priests and his wife and daughter had been gunned down by soldiers in El Salvador.

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Related Topix: Columbus, GA, US Military, Fort Benning, US Army, Fort Benning, GA, Command and General Staff College

Thu Nov 19, 2009

Examiner.com

Miranda Lambert performing at Fort Leavenworth

The beautiful and amazingly talented Miranda Lambert will be performing at Fort Leavenworth on December 6 at 6:30 p.m. in the Eisenhower Auditorium, Lewis and Clark Center.

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Related Topix: US Army, US Military, Leavenworth, KS

Wed Nov 18, 2009

CNN

Wives say sergeants are heroes, not criminals

The wives of three Army sergeants in prison for premeditated murder say their husbands are war heroes who should not be in prison.

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Related Topix: Prison, US Military, US Army, Iraq, US Military Prisons

Tue Nov 17, 2009

ac360.blogs.cnn.com | lois sprague

AC360 : Army killings in Iraq

For months, we wanted to hear from John Hatley. He's the former first sergeant who had the idea to take four Iraqi detainees to a Baghdad canal and, along with two other sergeants, kill them.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Army, Iraq, World News

CNN

Army tapes reveal motive in Iraq killings

U.S. soldiers interrogated by the Army in the 2007 murders of four Iraqi detainees blamed a military policy they said made it too hard to detain suspected insurgents, a CNN investigation has found.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Army, Prison, Abu Ghraib, Iraq, World News, US Military Prisons

Mon Nov 16, 2009

NY Daily News

Could take decades to execute Fort Hood suspect

A memorial service is held Sunday for Michael Grant Cahill, one of the Fort Hood victims, at St.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Army, Fort Hood, Fort Hood, TX, Cameron, TX, Prison

Sun Nov 15, 2009

ABC News

Fort Hood Shooter Could Face Death Penalty

The accused Fort Hood gunman , Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan will be tried by a court martial, and prosecutors will have the option of seeking the death penalty.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Army, Fort Hood, Death Penalty, Prison, Leavenworth, KS

Sat Nov 14, 2009

cjonline.com | lois sprague

War left its marks in Kansas

Reuben Rhodes, left, of Shaw Environmental, uses a metal detector to find pieces of test bombs in a field south of Alma recently as Cindy Burns takes detailed notes of the places where the metal is.

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Related Topix: Kansas, Alma, KS, US Military, US Army, Fort Riley, Topeka, KS

Time

A Muslim Community Moves Forward After Fort Hood

Retired US Army 1st Sergeant Osman Danquah , Imam Syed Ahmed Ali and retired US Army 1st Class Jameel Sabree speak with the media at the Islamic Community center of Greater Killeen, where US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan attended prayer services, on November 9, 2009 in Killeen, Texas.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Army, Fort Hood, Fort Hood, TX, Killeen, TX, Killeen Metro

The Herald

Murder charges filed in Fort Hood slayings

Spencer Green / Associated Press Members of the Patriot Guard Riders escort the hearse carrying Pfc.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Army, Fort Hood, Fort Hood, TX, Prison, Death Penalty

Fri Nov 13, 2009

www.saukvalley.com | lois sprague

Capital punishment rare in military cases

Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist alleged to have killed 13 people at the massive Army installation in Texas last week, might also benefit from protections the military provides defendants that are greater than those offered in civilian federal courts.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Army, Fort Hood, Fort Hood, TX, Death Penalty, Prison

Journal Gazette

13 murder counts in base slaughter

The White House pushed forward Thursday with a review to determine whether U.S. intelligence agencies adequately shared information about Maj.

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Related Topix: Prison, US News, US Military, Brooke Army Medical Center, US Army, Fort Hood

Ozarkcountytimes.com

Enlisted for one selfish reason - made Army a career for another

Veterans Day is a time for the nation to reflect on the many sacrifices that veterans such as my wife's father, Alford Allen, and my own father, the late Thomas D. Pettit, endured for the freedom of their families, neighbors and friends.

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Related Topix: US Military, Fort McPherson, Command and General Staff College, US Army, Ozark County, MO, US Navy, Theodosia, MO

Thu Nov 12, 2009

herald-zeitung.com | lois sprague

Military may seek death penalty for Hasan

Though the suspect in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood could face the death penalty, he will be prosecuted in a military justice system where no one has been executed in nearly a half-century. Maj.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Army, Fort Hood, Death Penalty, Fort Hood, TX, Prison

New York Times

Hasan Charged With 13 Counts of Murder in Ft. Hood Attack

Military prosecutors have charged Maj. Nadil Malik Hasan with 13 counts of premeditated murder in last week's shooting rampage at Fort Hood , Tex., a spokesman for the Army criminal investigation division said Thursday.

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Related Topix: Fort Hood, TX, US Military, US Army, Fort Hood, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Prison

Asheville Citizen-Times

Sense of duty fueled his Army career

Walter Plaue, 74, grew up in upstate New York and in 1947 visited the West Point Academy with his Boy Scout troop.

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Related Topix: Command and General Staff College, US Army, US Military

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