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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 ...
Unmanned US Aircraft Shoots, Kills Two US Soldiers [VIDEO]
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Spending Cuts Bill Hits Defense and Foreign Aid
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Tea partyers insistent on cutting military spending and foreign aid will find plenty to like in the deal struck by President Barack Obama and congressional leaders. No money for an alternative engine for the multibillion-dollar Joint Strike Fighter. Millions of dollars in cuts for the United Nations. A major reduction in spending on the Global Agriculture and Food Security Fund. It all adds up to billions less for the Pentagon and the State Department than what Obama had requested for the budget year ending Sept. 30, a reflection of the widespread congressional belief that ...
Outsourcing of Armed Contractors Highest Ever in Afghan War
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL NewsThe number of security contractors working in Afghanistan has tripled since 2009 and is now at its highest level since the U.S. began its military involvement there after 9/11, according to a new report by the Congressional Research Service. "In Afghanistan, as of December 2010, there were 18,919 private security contractor personnel working for [the Department of Defense], the highest number since DOD started tracking the data in September 2007," the report says. AP Private security personnel search hotel guests on Oct. 28, 2009, as they arrive at the bunker in the basement of ...
17 Victims Sue Pentagon Over 'Plague' of Sexual Violence
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- It may become a landmark case to force the military to take rape and sexual assault seriously. Or it could be yet another failed attempt in a decades-long battle by women to be accepted in the armed forces. Seventeen veterans and active-duty service members today took the first step to determining that, suing the Pentagon on charges of violating their constitutional rights to serve their country. They accused two secretaries of defense of condoning, ignoring and implicitly encouraging sexual abuse in the ranks in a 42-page complaint filed in federal district court in ...
Senate Inquiry: FBI, Army Could Have Prevented Fort Hood Massacre
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsThe FBI and military officials had information that Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Hasan had become radicalized and was a "ticking time bomb," but failed to act on evidence that could have prevented the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, according to a Senate inquiry. The report, released today by Sens. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, found that a "string of failures" by officials meant no action was taken to neutralize Hasan, a U.S. citizen of Palestinian descent who is accused of opening fire at the military base. Thirteen people were killed and 32 ...
Report: US Sending 1,400 More Troops to Afghanistan
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsThe U.S. is sending 1,400 more Marines into Afghanistan ahead of a spring thaw, when fighting usually picks up with the Taliban, to try to cement security gains ahead of the July start of a U.S. troop withdrawal, according to a published report. Unidentified American officials told The Wall Street Journal that Defense Secretary Robert Gates ordered the new deployment of more Marine combat forces in a surprise move on Wednesday. Temporarily adding front-line forces could help counter an anticipated spring offensive by Taliban militants returning from havens in neighboring Pakistan, they ...
British UFO Hacker Fights Extradition to US
By Lee Speigel - AOL News
(Dec. 3) -- When Gary McKinnon decided to try to find secret UFO files, he did what any curious computer expert would do: He hacked into nearly 100 military and NASA computers until he was finally caught. Eight years later, the Scottish systems administrator awaits his legal fate. As controversy swirls around WikiLeaks, the website that this week released secret diplomatic cables without authorization, one of the documents in question contains information about McKinnon, whose lengthy extradition case still has the U.K. buzzing, The Guardian newspaper reports. McKinnon, 44, who suffers from ...
Obama to Senate: Repeal 'Don't Ask' Policy Now
By David Knowles - AOL News(Nov. 30) -- For the president of the United States, the writing is now on the wall. That writing, of course, comes in the form of the report that President Barack Obama commissioned from the Department of Defense to assess the consequences of ending the military's ban on homosexual soldiers from serving openly. After the Pentagon report was released today, and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told a congressional committee that there was no credible reason to delay ending "don't ask, don't tell," Obama issued a strongly worded statement calling on the U.S. Senate to follow the House's lead ...
Pentagon Study Dismisses Risk of Openly Gay Troops
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WASHINGTON (Nov. 30) -- The Pentagon's study on gays in the military has determined that overturning the "don't ask, don't tell" ban on serving openly might cause some disruption at first but would not create widespread or long-lasting problems. The study provides ammunition to congressional Democrats struggling to overturn the law. But even with the release of Tuesday's report, there is no indication they can overcome fierce Republican objections with just a few weeks left in this year's postelection congressional session. Still, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and the chairman of the Joint ...
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