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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 ...
Rescuers Honored for Saving Gulf Oil Rig Workers
By not in system - AOL NewsBELLE CHASSE, La. -- Nearly one year after an explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig killed 11 workers and led to the nation's worst offshore oil spill, the Coast Guard honored a supply vessel's crew who helped rescue 115 survivors. Patrick Semansky, AP Billy Marsh, a crew member of the offshore supply vessel Damon B. Bankston, receives a distinguished public service award from U.S. Coast Guard Vice Adm. Sally Brice-O'Hara during a ceremony Friday in Belle Chasse, La., honoring members of the vessel and Coast Guard helicopter crews who helped rescue 115 survivors of ...
NATO Is Confident of More Planes for Libya Soon
By not in system - AOL NewsBERLIN -- NATO failed for a second day to find new ground-attack aircraft for the fight against Moammar Gadhafi's forces in Libya but Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told The Associated Press on Friday he expects the additional planes soon. NATO's top military commander, U.S. Navy Adm. James Stavridis, has said there is a growing need for precision attack aircraft to avoid civilian casualties as Gadhafi's forces camouflage themselves and hide in populated areas to avoid Western airstrikes. American officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to ...
Libyan Rebels Urge Stronger US Military Role
By not in system - AOL NewsDOHA, Qatar - A spokesman for Libyan rebels urged the U.S. military Wednesday to reassert of stronger role in the NATO-led air campaign or risk more civilian casualties in the stalemate fighting between Moammar Gadhafi and forces seeking to end his four-decade rule. The appeal by the spokesman, Mahmoud Shammam, appeared to set the urgent tone for the rebels' meetings with the U.N.'s secretary-general and other top Western and Arab envoys as they gathered in Qatar's capital to discuss ways to end the Libyan crisis. But Shamman said the anti-Gadhafi forces will not bend on their demands that ...
No Death Benefits for Military During Shutdown
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The Pentagon says a government shutdown would delay the $100,000 death benefit paid to families if a military service member dies in the line of duty during the shutdown. Families would get the money eventually, after the government re-opens. A Pentagon official says if a shutdown ends by next Tuesday the military may get full paychecks on April 15th. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss personnel details. If the shutdown goes longer, military personnel would get only partial pay. The official says about 400,000 of the Defense Department's 800,000 civilian ...
How a Government Shutdown Would Affect Americans
By not in system - AOL NewsYou'd still get your mail -- and your usual Social Security payment. But troops' pay might be delayed, and you'd have to put off that spring break trip to a national park. How government services would or wouldn't be affected if there's a partial shutdown Friday at midnight: • Benefit payments: Social Security payments would continue, and applications would still be processed. Unemployment benefits would still go out. Medicare would still pay claims for recipients, but payments to doctors and hospitals could be delayed if the shutdown were prolonged. • Mail: Deliveries as ...
Pentagon: Libya Mission Has Cost US $550M So Far
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The military intervention in Libya has cost the Pentagon an extra $550 million so far, mostly for bombs and missiles, officials said Tuesday. The figure is not a full picture of the price tag for the operation in that it does not include such money as pay for U.S. sailors, airmen and other forces, who would have been deployed somewhere in the world anyway, officials said. But it is the first official figure released on the cost of setting up the no-fly zone in the North African nation and protecting civilians from strongman Moammar Gadhafi as he resists a movement to oust ...
Obama: US Had 'Unique Ability' to Stop Libya Violence [VIDEO]
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In Libya, US Fights With Words as Well as Weapons
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- International military forces are using words as well as weapons to try to weaken the grip of Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi and urge his troops to turn against him. They are dropping leaflets targeting government troops as well as flying a U.S. propaganda plane that broadcasts to forces of the North African nation, U.S. military officials said Monday. The message: Refuse to obey Gadhafi's orders, stop fighting, go home to your families. Although each day the Pentagon reports the number of bombs it has dropped in the week-old Libya intervention, it has said little about the ...
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