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Haiti Shapes Up as a Long-Term Military Mission
By David Wood - Politics DailyPope Air Force Base, N.C. – From the endless lines of military Humvees, wrecker trucks, all-terrain vehicles, ambulances, flat-bed cargo trucks, generator trucks, fuel trucks, communications vans, and paratroopers waiting in a cold rain, it's clear that the U.S. military mission in Haiti is going to be a long one. For a week, cargo handlers and loaders and flight crews have been struggling to get the 3,200 paratroopers of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team of the 82nd Airborne Division into Haiti. As of midday Thursday, the job is about two-thirds complete, with 2,177 soldiers and 2,000 tons ...
American Students Still Missing in Haiti
By David Knowles - AOL News(Jan. 20) -- For the parents of four American students who remain missing in Haiti, waiting for news has become a daily ordeal. "This is a nightmare. This is a living nightmare," Len Gengel, the father of Lynn University student Brittany Gengel, told NBC News. Appearing on the "Today" show, Gengel said he believes the U.S. government could be doing more to help find the four students from Florida's Lynn University who had traveled to Haiti to conduct humanitarian work. They were staying at Port-au-Prince's Hotel Montana. "As parents of people that are buried in that rubble, we need ...
Ranking America's Latest Troop Commitment
By Zubin Jelveh - AOL News(Jan. 19) – The estimated 11,000 troops to be sent to Haiti in the next few weeks to aid in recovery efforts has meant yet another significant military commitment from the United States – even as thousands more troops are being sent to Afghanistan. As of September, the U.S. military had 379,000 troops stationed in 150 countries around the world, with Iraq and Afghanistan accounting for 60 percent of this level. The deployment of troops to Haiti makes it host to the sixth largest contingent of American forces outside of the United States: ...
Gen. Petraeus Says US Troops Won't Go to Yemen
By not in system - AOL NewsTAMPA, Florida (Jan. 10) -- The U.S. military does not intend to put ground troops in Yemen, a country where al Qaeda operatives have become an increasing threat, Gen. David Petraeus told CNN in an interview to be aired Sunday. However, the United States plans to more than double its security assistance funding to Yemen, from $70 million to more than $150 million, Petraeus, head of U.S. Central Command, told CNN's Christiane Amanpour at CENTCOM headquarters in Tampa. Petraeus, who recently returned from his visit to the Arab nation, said Yemen's foreign minister was "quite clear that Yemen ...
Taliban: We're Responsible for Deadly Afghan Blasts
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL (Dec. 31) -- The Taliban claimed responsibility Thursday for infiltrating a CIA base with a suicide bomber who got into a gym and set off an explosion that killed eight Americans and an Afghan. CIA employees were believed to be among the victims. Wednesday's assault on U.S. Forward Operating Base Chapman at the edge of Khost city in eastern Afghanistan was a blow to the CIA, which had previously lost only four operatives in this country since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. It came on a bloody day for NATO forces. A roadside bombing, also claimed by the Taliban, killed four Canadian troops ...
U.N. Sanctions U.S. Iraq War Victory
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyWith little fanfare and barely any notice in the domestic mainstream press, the United Nations Security Council passed resolution 1859 last month, marking the end of the mandate for international troops in Iraq as of December 31, 2008. The resolution, sponsored by the American and British delegatons, officially recognizes the legitimacy of the government of Iraq, and was made possible by the Status of Forces agreement reached between Baghdad and Washington late last year.The resolution also relieves Iraq from restrictions on managing its own assets. Iraq will now have the freedom to do as it ...
U.S. Combat Role in Iraq to End by 2011
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailySecretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari announced that the two countries have reached a preliminary agreement on a time line for U.S. combat troop withdrawal from Iraq. According to the agreement, all U.S. combat forces will be out of Iraq by the end of 2011, a little less than three and a half years from now. The role of U.S. forces inside Iraq will change as well. The agreement calls for U.S. troops to be stationed outside of Iraqi cities by June of next year, in a backup role for Iraqi forces, who will have complete control of security in all of the ...
Agreement on 'Horizon' for Troop Presence
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe Bush Administration and the Iraqi government announced an agreement today that sets up a dialog between the two nations on a "general time horizon" for the U.S troop presence in Iraq. The Administration chose its wording carefully, and says that the language of the agreement does not commit the United States to an arbitrary timeline for the withdrawal of U.S. forces. White House spokesman Scott Stanzel stressed the any withdrawals under the agreement would be based upon an assessment of conditions on the ground, and not on political considerations."I think it's important to remember that ...
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