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Two US Soldiers Killed in Southern Iraq
By not in system - AOL NewsBAGHDAD -- The U.S. military says two American soldiers have been killed while conducting operations in southern Iraq. In a statement, released on Saturday, the military says the deaths occurred Friday. No further details about how they died were released. The names of the deceased are being withheld pending notification of next of kin and release by the Department of Defense. The death raises to at least 4,450 the number of U.S. military personnel who have died in Iraq since the war began in March 2003. That's according to an Associated Press count. Nine U.S. servicemembers taking part ...
New Combat Uniform for Female Army Troops in the Works
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON --Throughout history, military gear has been made with the male physique in mind. But for women in today's combat or close-to-combat jobs, that can mean body armor that fits so poorly it's tough to fire a weapon, combat uniforms with knee pads that hit around mid-shin and flight suits that make it nearly impossible to urinate while in a plane. With women taking on new roles, the issue is getting fresh attention from the military. Jacquelyn Martin, AP At Fort Belvoir, Va., Army Maj. Sequana Robinson demonstrates a new women's combat uniform that is being evaluated by the ...
Iraqi PM Tells Mullen Iraqi Troops Can Take Over
By not in system - AOL NewsBAGHDAD -- Iraq's prime minister has told the top U.S. military officer that Iraqi forces are able to maintain security in their own country, as discussions intensify over whether to keep any U.S. forces in Iraq past this year. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki made the remark during a late Thursday meeting with Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the U.S. joint chiefs of staff. Mullen's visit comes as U.S. and Iraqi officials are trying to decide what, if any, U.S. troop presence should remain in Iraq after the end of this year. Specialist 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley, DOD / AP Navy ...
Two Western Photojournalists Killed in Libya
By not in system - AOL NewsMISRATA, Libya -- Two Western photojournalists, including an Oscar-nominated film director, were killed Wednesday in the besieged city of Misrata while covering battles between rebels and Libyan government forces. Two others working alongside them were wounded. British-born Tim Hetherington, co-director of the documentary "Restrepo" about U.S. soldiers on an outpost in Afghanistan, was killed inside the only rebel-held city in western Libya, said his U.S.-based publicist, Johanna Ramos Boyer. The city has come under weeks of relentless shelling by government troops. Outpost Films / ...
Gunmen Kill Iraqi Family of 4 in Baghdad Home
By not in system - AOL NewsBAGHDAD -- Gunmen stormed the home of a Shiite family living in a mostly Sunni neighborhood of Baghdad and killed all four family members, police said Sunday. Two policemen said a 16-year-old boy and 14-year-old girl were shot to death with their parents in the raid, which took place around 11 p.m. Saturday. A Baghdad morgue official confirmed the deaths. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media. Further details about the family or the motive behind the shooting were not immediately available. But the killings were reminiscent of the ...
First Lady Wants You: To Help Military Families
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Drawing in everyone from Best Buy's Geek Squad to the Afghan war commander fired by her husband, Michelle Obama ramped up her campaign to support military families on Tuesday and prodded everybody else in the country to get in on the act. The first lady, joined in the East Room by the president and Vice President Joe Biden and wife Jill, launched "Joining Forces," an initiative to help military families who face a long list of unique challenges, such as moving around a lot and having a parent or spouse facing wartime perils far away. Mrs. Obama didn't dangle federal grants or ...
Gates: US Troops Could Remain in Iraq After 2011
By not in system - AOL NewsMOSUL, Iraq -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, visiting Iraq on the eve of the eighth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad, said Friday the United States could extend its troop presence in the country beyond the scheduled 2011 pullout. Gates said that if Iraq wants American troops to remain, a deal could be negotiated for the long term or for as little as two or three years. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates flies on a Blackhawk helicopter back to Camp Victory after meeting with Iraq's president and prime minister on Thursday in Baghdad. Gates ...
Gates Visits Iraq, Says Some US Troops May Stay
By not in system - AOL NewsBAGHDAD - The Obama administration would keep U.S. troops in Iraq beyond the agreed final withdrawal date of Dec. 31, 2011, if the Iraqi government wanted them, but the Iraqis need to decide "pretty quickly" in order for the Pentagon to accommodate the extension, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday during what he said probably is his final visit to this war-torn country. Whether to negotiate an extended U.S. military presence is up to the Iraqis, he said, adding that he thought an extension might make sense. "We are willing to have a presence beyond (2011), but we've got a lot of ...
Did Navy's Brain Injury Subjects Receive Substandard Care?
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL NewsA Navy study designed to test an experimental therapy on people suffering from traumatic brain injury did not follow proper protocols for human subject research, the Pentagon's inspector general concluded. A summary of the inspector general's investigation released late last week said that "management and conduct of the clinical trial were inconsistent with military standards for human subject medical research." The report also said it's possible that patients involved in the study received substandard care, and it found problems with the review process used for military medical research ...
Death Toll Hits 57 in Iraqi Hostage Siege
By not in system - AOL NewsBAGHDAD -- The death toll for a grisly hostage situation at a government building in northern Iraq continued to rise Wednesday as grieving families buried the victims and Iraqi officials questioned how it could have happened. Gunmen wearing explosives belts under military uniforms charged into the provincial council building in Tikrit, north of Baghdad, Tuesday afternoon, shooting hostages execution-style, and spraying bullets and grenades throughout the building during the five-hour standoff. Dr. Raied Ibrahim, the health director for Salahuddin province where the attack took place, said 57 ...
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