| August 8, 11:00 PM
, 2020 | - At the court-martial of Army Lt. Col. Steven Jordan, the only officer to be charged in the Abu Ghraib scandal, witnesses for the prosecution said that Jordan did not “sign off on anything,” and that he had “nothing to do with the interrogations,” and “nothing to do with those detainees being abused.” The prosecution later rested its case.
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IHT
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| May 23, 2008 | - Ten thousand Iraqi troops met little resistance as they took control of Mahdi Army-controlled Sadr City under the terms of a cease-fire agreement.
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| April 23, 2008 | - Eighty-four-year-old Ben Ami-Kadish, a retired military engineer who worked from 1979 to 1985 at the U.S. Army Armament Research, Development, and Engineering Center in New Jersey, was arrested for giving secret documents, including “atomic-related information,” to Israel.
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LA Times
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| March 31, 2008 | -
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered an offensive against the Mahdi Army, a large Shia militia allied with cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, in the oil-rich southern port city of Basra. Senator John McCain called the offensive “a sign of the strength of [Maliki's] government,” President George W. Bush said it was “a positive moment in the development of a sovereign nation,” and a Pentagon spokesman called it “a by-product of the success of the surge.” The offensive, dubbed the Charge of the Knights, erupted into six days of heavy fighting that spread across southern Iraq and to Sadr City, a Baghdad slum where three million Shia live. After a stern ultimatum failed to bring peace, Maliki offered cash rewards to militiamen who turned in their weapons. Forty Iraqi policemen were reported to have given their weapons for free to Mahdi Army officers.
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NYT
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LAT
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WP
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NYT
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NYT
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| March 12, 2008 | - It was reported that the richest man in Great Britain, the Duke of Westminster, was a client of the same high-end prostitution agency as Eliot Spitzer. The Duke allegedly haggled over pricing, requested sex without a condom, and bored prostitute Zana Brazdek with conversation “about the Army, going to Afghanistan, and bin Laden.”
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DailyNews
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| March 1, 2008 | - Prince Harry of Wales, once photographed dressed as a Nazi, was called home after press accounts revealed that he was serving as a British
Army forward air controller in the Helmand province of Afghanistan. “We ask God to enable our beloved brothers in Taliban to seize this priceless booty,” wrote user Sweeping Army on an Internet jihadist message board, “because nothing would break the heart of his grandmother [more] than if she lost him. My dear brothers in Allah, carry on provoking to kidnap this precious infidel.”
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The Guardian
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| February 12, 2008 | - Patty Hearst attended the Westminster Kennel Club dog
show with Diva, her French bulldog. “When people find out it's me,” said Hearst, a veteran of the Symbionese Liberation Army, “it's like it doesn't make sense.”
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Star Tribune
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| January 10, 2008 | - It was revealed that Blackwater dropped riot-control gas on U.S. soldiers in Iraq in 2005. “This,” said Army Captain Kincy Clark, “was decidedly uncool.”
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NYTimes.com
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| January 8, 2008 | - A victim of Hurricane Katrina was suing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for $3,000,000,000,000,000 after the Corps admitted that it had done a poor job designing the broken New Orleans levees.
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Click2Houston.com
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| December 12, 2007 | - The U.S. Postal Service was throwing away hundreds of thousands of holiday cards addressed to “Any Wounded Soldier.”
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Washington Post
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| October 5, 2007 | - Bo Ward, the proprietor of a barbershop near the Army’s Fort Campbell, committed suicide at a town meeting in Clarksville, Tennessee. Ward had requested that his home be rezoned as a commercial property to increase its value and to offset the losses he suffered when most of his regular patrons, among them General David Petraeus, were deployed to Iraq; the City Council refused. “Y’all have put me under,” said the barber before inserting a pistol into his mouth. “I’m out of here.”
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San Jose Mercury News
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| September 13, 2007 | - General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker testified to Congress about progress in the war in Iraq; Crocker summarized 2006 as “a bad year,” but blamed ongoing sectarian violence on Saddam Hussein's “social deconstruction” of the country. Petraeus cited progress in the Anbar region as evidence that his surge strategy is working. He suggested that one Army brigade might be home for Christmas, and that the surge might be over by next July. Barack Obama proposed removing at least one brigade per month, starting now, until all troops are out by the end of next year. President Bush supported the Petraeus plan, also citing progress in the Anbar Province and his recent meetings with leaders there.
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WaPo
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NYT
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Boston Globe
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NYT
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USA Today
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| August 16, 2007 | - It was reported that a South Carolina small-parts supplier run by twin sisters had cheated the Pentagon out of $20.5 million in shipping costs; two 19-cent washers sent to an Army base in Texas, for instance, incurred a $998,798 charge.
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Bloomberg
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| August 16, 2007 | - The Army's
suicide rate was at an all-time high, leading the Army to hold a poster contest.
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Army Times
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AP via NYT
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| July 10, 2007 | - The U.S. Army fell more than 1,000 soldiers short of its June recruiting goal.
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NYT
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| June 7, 2007 | - In Iraq, the Sunni-dominated Islamic
Army announced that it would no longer threaten the “project of Jihad” by continuing to fight Al Qaeda.
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Washington Post
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| May 8, 2007 | - Four ethnic Albanians, a Jordanian, and a Turk were arrested for plotting to invade Fort Dix, New Jersey.
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NJ Star-Ledger
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| May 2, 2007 | - The U.S. Army tightened its rules concerning blogging by soldiers.
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Reuters via CNN.com
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| April 18, 2007 | - Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, upset that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki will not support a timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops, convinced six cabinet members to quit. “We are free because we are not in the government,” said Bahar al-Araji, a Sadr legislator. “If the prime minister doesn't do what we want, we can do something to the prime minister. We can make him leave the government.” Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that if the vacancies were filled with members who could broaden representation in the cabinet, it “probably would be a positive thing.”
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Washington Post
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Washington Post
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Washington Post
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| March 26, 2007 | - A U.S. Army recruiter's email exchange with a gay man was published in a New Jersey newspaper. “YOU GO BACK TO AFRICA AND DO YOUR GAY VOODOO LIMBO TANGO AND WANGO DANCE,” wrote the recruiter, “AND JUMP AROUND AND PRANCE AND RUN ALL OVER THE PLACE HALF NAKED.”
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Jersey Journal
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| March 6, 2007 | - Kevin Kiley, the three-star general in charge of all Army medical facilities, testified to his lack of responsibility for the Walter Reed hospital scandal, stating, “I command by commanding through my commanders and trusting them to execute the mission.”
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Washington Post
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| February 16, 2007 | - President George W. Bush expressed “certainty” that the Iranian government has been supplying Iraqi insurgents with weapons and extended the deployment of 3,200 soldiers so close to the end of their tour that their uniforms and supplies had already been packed for shipment.
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CBS4Denver
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NYT
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| February 9, 2007 | - In Iraq, armed men believed to be working for the Ministry of Defense kidnapped an Iranian diplomat, a car bomb killed at least 33 policemen, a political officer affiliated with the Mahdi Army was assassinated, and in Sadr City, Baghdad's largest Shiite slum, conditions were much improved following the input of $41 million in reconstruction funds.
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NY Times
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CNN
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NY Times
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NY Times
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| January 29, 2007 | - The Indian
Army was preparing to hunt down man-eating leopards in Kashmir.
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Mumbai Mirror
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| January 26, 2007 | -
Army Lt. Gen. David Petraeus, an expert on counterinsurgency, replaced Army Gen. George Casey as U.S. commander of troops in Iraq, and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed a non-binding resolution opposing President Bush's plan to increase the number of troops. Republican Senator John Warner of Virginia expressed hope that “wherever possible, the Iraqis should bear the brunt of the sectarian violence.”
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USA Today
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| January 5, 2007 | - The Army apologized for sending letters to officers killed in action urging them to reenlist.
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CNN
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| December 5, 2006 | - The U.S. Army's chief-of-staff said the Army would have to be made “well” again.
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Washington Post
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| November 20, 2006 | -
Army Specialist James Barker admitted that he had raped a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and helped murder her family in March 2006.
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BBC News
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| November 12, 2006 | - Three U.S. soldiers, four British soldiers, and 159 Iraqis were killed on a Sunday.
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Aljazeerah.info
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The Toronto Star
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| November 3, 2006 | - U.S. Army personnel were accused of telling potential recruits that the war was over.
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ABC News
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| October 24, 2006 | - Thousands of American soldiers were avoiding overseas duty by going deeply into debt.
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Washington Post
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| October 19, 2006 | - Nearly four months after the arraignment of PFC Steven D. Green, eight other soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division faced courts-martial in Kentucky for the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the killing of her family in March.
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New York Times
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| October 12, 2006 | - The United States
Army was planning to maintain current troop levels in Iraq through 2010, and to replace its advertising slogan, “An Army of One,” with a new slogan, “Army Strong.”
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AP
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| October 8, 2006 | - A ministry in Atlanta, Georgia, was sending camouflaged
devotionals to U.S. soldiers serving overseas.
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WTVM.com
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| September 25, 2006 | - The United States Army extended combat tours for 4,000 soldiers in Iraq,.
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AP via Yahoo! News
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| September 14, 2006 | - The United States was running out of troops to send to Iraq,.
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Won't Deploy? Can't Deploy.
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| September 6, 2006 | - The U.S. Army promised to stop intimidating prisoners by placing hoods over their heads, or by simulating their drowning, or by threatening them with dogs.
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New York Times
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| August 28, 2006 | - At least 200 Iraqis were killed in bombings, rocket attacks, and shootings, as were 19 American and British soldiers.
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CNN
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NPR
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| August 23, 2006 | - A senior U.S. general said it was a “policy of the central government in Iran” to destabilize Iraq.
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San Jose Mercury News
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| August 2, 2006 | - A lawyer who represents one of four American paratroopers accused of murdering three Iraqi detainees told a military court in Tikrit that the dead men “got exactly what they deserved.”
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BBC and BBC
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| July 30, 2006 | - Thirteen U.S. soldiers died in Iraq, where the U.S. military was planning to deploy 5,000 more troops.
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icasualties.org
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| July 12, 2006 | - The U.S. Army said that it would not renew its contract for logistics support with Halliburton.
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BBC News
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| July 9, 2006 | - Five more American soldiers were charged in the Iraqi
rape-and-murder case.
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ABC News
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| July 8, 2006 | - An Army reserve colonel offered to plead guilty to charges that he engaged in bribery, conspiracy, and money laundering while he was stationed in Iraq.
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New York Times
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| July 6, 2006 | -
Iraqi prime minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki denounced the immunity of American soldiers in Iraq in connection with the rape and murder of a teenage girl and three of her relatives, including another child. Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said that there was no apparent connection between the rape-and-murder case and the killings of two soldiers from the unit under investigation.
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Detroit Free Press
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| June 27, 2006 | -
The President went jogging with a soldier who lost both his legs in Iraq,.
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local6.com
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| June 20, 2006 | - The Iraqi military recovered the bodies of two kidnapped U.S. soldiers; a spokesman said they had been “tortured in a barbaric fashion.”
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The New York Times
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The New York Times
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| June 19, 2006 | - In Iraq an Islamic militant group claimed that it had kidnapped two U.S. soldiers, 23-year-old Kristian Menchaca and 25-year-old Thomas L. Tucker. The Army sent 8,000 Iraqi and U.S. troops, supported by fighter jets and drones, to search for the missing soldiers.
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The New York Times
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| June 5, 2006 | - It was reported that the Pentagon has decided to remove a reference to Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions from a new edition of the Army Field Manual on interrogation. That article bans torture and cruel treatment as well as “outrages on personal dignity, in particular, humiliating and degrading treatment.” The change, which would reverse decades of military policy, follows President Bush's declaration in 2002 that the Geneva Conventions do not apply to “unlawful combatants” such as terrorists.
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Los Angeles Times
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| June 3, 2006 | - Former Army First Lieutenant William Calley was said to wander at night through Benning, Georgia, haunted by his memories of the My Lai massacre.
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The Kansas City Star
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| June 2, 2006 | - The Army Corps of Engineers admitted that its incompetence was largely to blame for the destruction of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.
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New York Times
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| June 1, 2006 | - In Iraq, where 14 U.S. soldiers died, bombings killed 62 people in a poor Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad, 17 people at a market in Hilla, and 18 people in Khairnabat.
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Reuters
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Guardian
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San Francisco Chronicle
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Reuters
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Reuters
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| May 29, 2006 | - Riots broke out in Afghanistan after a U.S. military truck went out of control and killed some civilians.
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The Washington Post
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| May 29, 2006 | - President George W. Bush signed into law the Respect for America's Fallen Heroes Act, which limits protests at military funerals.
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ABC News
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| May 23, 2006 | -
Soldiers in Iraq were developing emotional relationships with their bomb-defusing robots. "Please fix Scooby Doo," said one soldier, "because he saved my life."
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MSNBC
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| May 7, 2006 | -
Army recruiters in Portland, Oregon, were under investigation for recruiting an autistic boy for a dangerous position in the cavalry scouts.
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TwinCities.com
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| April 23, 2006 | - In Iraq, three U.S. soldiers were killed by a bomb and at least 27 Iraqis were killed in other violence. President Bush phoned the newly elected Iraqi prime minister-designate Jawad al-Maliki, parliament speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, and president Jalal Talabani to urge them to form a coalition government. “They have awesome responsibilities,” said the President, “to their people.”
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News.com.au
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| April 16, 2006 | - Six former U.S. generals called for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to resign.
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The Age
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| March 27, 2006 | -
American and Iraqi forces said they had killed 17 Shiite militiamen at a mosque in Baghdad; Iraqi television showed corpses in a prayer room.
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The New York Times
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| March 21, 2006 | -
U.S. Sergeant Michael J. Smith was found guilty of using a dog to terrorize prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison. He was also found guilty of indecency for directing his dog to lick peanut butter from the genitals of a fellow male soldier and from the breasts of a fellow female soldier.
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The Kansas City Star
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| March 19, 2006 | - It was revealed that in 2004 a U.S. Special Operations unit imprisoned Iraqis in Hussein-era torture chambers, then used them as targets in paintball games. "The reality is," said a Pentagon official, "there were no rules there." Posters around the detention area read NO BLOOD, NO FOUL.
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The New York Times
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| March 19, 2006 | - It was reported that the U.S. military is less likely to discharge homosexuals than it was in the past. "They are under enormous pressure," explained a legal analyst, "to retain people."
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The Boston Globe
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| February 24, 2006 | - In Raleigh, North Carolina, seven paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division were in trouble for appearing in a sex video on a gay-themed website.
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AP via Yahoo! News
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| February 19, 2006 | - The U.S. Army was using a computer game called “Tactical Iraqi” to teach Marines how to interpret Iraqis' gestures; “Tactical Pashto” and “Tactical Levantine” are in development.
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BBC News
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| February 15, 2006 | - The U.S. Army was worried that Abu Ghraib was becoming, according to one commander, “a graduate-level training ground for the insurgency.”
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International Herald Tribune
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| February 5, 2006 | - At least 7,600 U.S. soldiers had been severely wounded serving in Iraq. "I can drink beer out of my leg," said Matthew Braddock, a 25-year-old National Guardsman who lost his left foot and nine inches of his left leg to a mine in northern Iraq. "How many people can do that?"
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Time
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| January 20, 2006 | - The U.S. Army raised its maximum enlistment age to 39.
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Democracy Now!
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| January 18, 2006 | - It was reported that Iraqi militants had developed an "Aerial Improvised Explosive Device" that could blow up helicopters.
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Al Jazeera
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| January 13, 2006 | -
U.S. troops continued to be plagued by improvised explosive devices, or IEDs. “They blow up,” said a Marine corporal, “and you can't find the triggerman. You're mad, and you just want to kill someone, and you can't find them.”
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The Wall Street Journal/A1
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| January 9, 2006 | - Twelve U.S. soldiers were believed to have been killed when an Army helicopter crashed in northern Iraq.
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The New York Times
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| December 12, 2005 | -
Iraq's Victorious Army Group was holding a contest to see who could design the best website to promote their message of jihad. The contest winner will receive Allah's blessings and be allowed to fire three rockets at an American military base.
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The New York Times
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| November 30, 2005 | - Operation Steel Hammer, intended to end Al Qaeda operations in Hit, west of Baghdad, was launched with a force of 1,500 U.S. Marines, 500 U.S. Army soldiers, and 500 Iraqi soldiers.
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ABC News
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| November 30, 2005 | - It was revealed that the U.S. Army was writing positive news stories about the Iraq war, and was then paying to have the articles translated into Arabic and published in Iraqi newspapers. Abdul Zahra Zaki, editor of the newspaper Al Mada, said that if he had known the stories—with titles like “Iraqis Insist on Living Despite Terrorism” and “More Money Goes to Iraq's Development”—were written by the Army he would have “charged much, much more.”
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LA Times
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| November 19, 2005 | - Representative John Murtha (D., Pa.), called for the halt of U.S. troop deployments to Iraq. Duncan Hunter (R., Calif.), seeking to cut off debate over Murtha's statements, countered by proposing a measure that required that U.S. troops be brought home immediately. Jean Schmidt (R., Ohio) addressed Murtha, a decorated veteran and former Marine colonel who previously supported the invasion of Iraq, by quoting a Marine Corps reserve officer who told her that “cowards cut and run.” She was booed by Democrats. “You guys,” yelled Marty Meehan (D., Mass.), “are pathetic!” Harold Ford (D., Tenn.) ran across the House chamber's center aisle to the Republican side. “Say Murtha's name!” he shouted. Schmidt asked that her comments be struck from the record, and Hunter's resolution was rejected 403 to 3, with Murtha among those voting against it.
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The Washington Post
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| November 18, 2005 | -
General George Casey, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, presented a plan for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
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CNN.com
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| November 9, 2005 | - A former U.S. soldier named Jeff Englehart said that he witnessed “burned bodies, burned children, and burned women” after a white phosphorus attack on Fallujah in 2004. The U.S. Army denied that it had used white phosphorus in the attack.
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The New Zealand Herald
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| November 5, 2005 | -
U.S. and Iraqi forces launched Operation Al Hajip Elfulathi (Steel Curtain) in Husaybah, a town on Iraq's Syrian border that serves as a transit point and staging area for militants. The offensive began on the third day of the Eid al-Fitr holiday, which marks the end of Ramadan. “Instead of having my family for a picnic in an amusement park,” said a refugee named Omar Obaidi, “I am taking them out of the town, walking and expecting death every moment.” A statement promising retaliation for the offensive, purported to be from Al Qaeda, was posted on a local mosque. In Baquba the spokesman for the Iraqi National Dialogue Council was shot five times.
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The Washington Post
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| November 2, 2005 | - A U.S. Army captain stationed in Germany was sentenced to five years in prison for forcibly sodomizing three U.S. soldiers; the soldiers had asked him for counseling in his capacity as an Army chaplain and Roman Catholic priest.
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TheDenverChannel.com
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| October 31, 2005 | -
U.S. aircraft dropped explosives on a house in Iraq near the Syrian border, hoping to kill an Al Qaeda leader. An Iraqi doctor estimated 40 civilians were killed and 20 wounded in the precision bombing. "There are no insurgents in this area," said a tribal leader.
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Reuters
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| October 31, 2005 | - Two U.S. soldiers were charged with assaulting two Afghan prisoners in violation of the Geneva Convention.
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The New York Times
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| October 30, 2005 | - The United States military published its first public estimate of the number of Iraqi civilians and soldiers killed by Iraqi militants. The estimate appears as a single bar graph on page 23 of a report to Congress and does not provide actual numbers, but by extrapolating from the graph it appears that insurgents are wounding and killing 63 Iraqis a day, and have wounded or killed 25,902 Iraqis since the war began. Some analysts said the numbers seemed low. The number of Iraqi civilians wounded or killed by U.S. forces was not mentioned in the report.
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The New York Times
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| October 25, 2005 | - The number of U.S. military personnel killed in Iraq rose to 2,023. "The best way to honor the sacrifice of our fallen troops," said President George W. Bush, "is to complete the mission."
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AP
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| October 5, 2005 | -
President Bush expressed concern over bird flu and asked Congress to consider legislation that would allow the U.S. Army to enforce quarantines in case of a pandemic.
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IndyStar.com
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| September 28, 2005 | - The U.S. Army was looking into claims that its soldiers had traded digital pictures of burned and dismembered Iraqi and Afghani bodies in exchange for online access to amateur porn.
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BBC News
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| September 23, 2005 | - Members of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division admitted that while in Iraq their battalion regularly tortured prisoners. "Some days," said a sergeant, "we would just get bored, so we would have everyone sit in a corner and then make them get in a pyramid. This was before Abu Ghraib, but just like it. We did it for amusement." Another sergeant said that he had seen a soldier beat detainees with an open chemical light. "That made them glow in the dark, which was real funny," he said, "but it burned their eyes, and their skin was irritated real bad."
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The New York Times
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| September 2, 2005 | - About 57,000 troops, many assigned to combat operations, entered the New Orleans area. “This place is going to look like Little
Somalia,” said a brigadier general.
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Army Times
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| August 28, 2005 | - The Pentagon called for 1,500 more troops to be sent to Iraq for the referendum.
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Bloomberg
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| August 22, 2005 | - A California
Army veteran and resident of the United States for 51 years was upset with J.P. Morgan Chase for repeatedly getting his name wrong in their credit-card database, misspelling "Sami Habbas" as "Palestinian Bomber."
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ABC News
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| August 20, 2005 | - Peter Schoomaker, the Army's top general, revealed that the United States was developing a plan to keep at least 100,000 soldiers in Iraq through 2009. Senator Chuck Hagel (R., Nebr.) called the plan "complete folly." "It would further destabilize the Middle East," he said. "It would give Iran more influence, it would hurt Israel, it would put our allies over there in Saudi Arabia and Jordan in a terrible position."
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AP
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AP
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| August 10, 2005 | - The U.S. Army fired four-star General Kevin Byrnes, head of the Army Training and Doctrine Command, for adultery.
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Chicago Tribune
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| July 28, 2005 | - The Boy Scout National Jamboree was held at Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia. The Senate passed the Support Our Scouts Act of 2005, guaranteeing the Boy Scouts the right to use federal land whether the organization discriminates against atheists and gays or not. The Senate also noted that holding the Jamboree on a military base gave U.S. soldiers the opportunity to practice the “preparation, logistics, and leadership” needed in combat. At the Jamboree four scout leaders were electrocuted while setting up a tent, and three hundred people were treated for heat-related symptoms. In California, a scoutmaster and a thirteen-year-old scout were killed by lightning.
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| July 28, 2005 | -
Iraq's Prime Minister Ibrahim al Jaafari called for the prompt withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country; General George Casey, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said that troop withdrawal could begin by spring 2006 “if the political process continues to go positively.”
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Democracy Now
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| July 16, 2005 | - Eleven U.S. soldiers were charged with beating Iraqis.
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BBC News
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| June 29, 2005 | - The U.S. Army, having increased the maximum enlistment age from thirty-four to thirty-nine and the maximum age for officer candidate school from twenty-nine to forty-two, having offered $20,000 more for college per soldier, and having lowered its recruitment goal for this June by more than one thousand as compared to the previous year, announced that it had exceeded its June recruitment goal by 507 soldiers.
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CNN.com
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USA Today
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The New York Times
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| June 12, 2005 | - Twenty-eight bodies were found dumped on the street or in shallow graves in Baghdad. Four U.S. soldiers died in Iraq, bringing the total U.S. casualties since the war began past 1,700.
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AP
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| May 29, 2005 | - Forty thousand Iraqi troops and ten thousand United States soldiers launched Operation Lightning, which is intended to seal roads in and out of Baghdad.
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Radio Free Europe
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| May 27, 2005 | - Two soldiers died when an Army helicopter was shot down northeast of Baghdad.
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BBC News
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| May 23, 2005 | - Representative Spencer Bachus of Alabama said that a routine by television host Bill Maher bordered on treason. Maher had said that the Army had already picked all of the “low-lying fruit” like Lynndie England, and now needed “warm bodies.”
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ABC News
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| May 13, 2005 | - The U.S. Army decided to allow soldiers to enlist for only fifteen months of active duty, followed by two years of service in the National Guard or Army Reserve.
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BBC News
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| May 2, 2005 | - In Iraq at least one hundred Iraqis and eleven U.S. troops were killed in a span of four days. More than twenty car bombs were detonated, and in one case, a suicide bomber drove a car bomb into a Kurdish funeral tent, killing at least twenty-five people.
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Los Angeles Times
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| April 29, 2005 | - The Army was planning to change its rules to exempt good athletes from active duty so they can serve in professional sports leagues.
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Record Online
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| April 28, 2005 | - A Colorado high school student decided to test Army recruitment policies by telling a recruiter that he had dropped out of high school and was addicted to marijuana. The recruiter told the student how to get a fake diploma over the Internet and instructed him to take a detoxification formula so that he could pass the Army's drug test.
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CBS 4 Colorado
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| April 25, 2005 | - A United Nations investigator in Afghanistan who criticized the abuse of prisoners by United States Army personnel was forced out of his role under pressure from the United States.
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The Independent
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| April 11, 2005 | - Senior American defense officials noted several positive developments in Iraq: only thirty-six American soldiers, they said, died there this March; attacks on allied forces were down to thirty or forty a day; and by early 2006, only 105,000 American soldiers may be needed in the country.
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New York Times
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| April 3, 2005 | - Militants in Iraq attacked the Abu Ghraib prison, wounding forty-four American soldiers and twelve prisoners.
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BBC News
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| April 1, 2005 | - Five American soldiers were arrested for trying to use military aircraft to smuggle cocaine from Colombia into the United States.
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Reuters
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| March 31, 2005 | - The U.S. Army's Psychological Operations group was developing propaganda science fiction comic books for distribution in the Middle East.
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BBC News
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| March 27, 2005 | -
Starbucks came to Guantánamo Bay.
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New York Times
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| February 26, 2005 | - Four American soldiers and thirteen Iraqis were killed in Iraq.
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Khaleej Times
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| February 22, 2005 | -
Pakistani soldiers were ordered to shoot at U.S.
troops who enter Pakistan without permission.
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HindustanTimes.com
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| February 22, 2005 | -
Senator
John McCain called for permanent U.S. military bases in Afghanistan.
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The Guardian
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| February 20, 2005 | -
American forces opened negotiations with Iraqi insurgents.
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Time
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| February 18, 2005 | - It was revealed that the Army, seeking to avoid scandal, destroyed photos of U.S. soldiers holding mock executions of hooded Afghan detainees.
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AP
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| February 13, 2005 | - At the Best Buy in the Hudson Valley Mall in Kingston, New York, a man ran amok with an AK-47, injuring an Army recruiter.
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ABC News
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| February 4, 2005 | - Good relations with Halliburton were more important to the U.S. Army than $2 billion in disputed bills.
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The New York Times
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| February 1, 2005 | - The Army was testing a new environmentally friendly, hydrogen-powered vehicle called The Aggressor.
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National Defense
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| January 17, 2005 | - The Army was planning to deploy knee-high robots equipped with machine guns to fight Iraqi insurgents.
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Modesto Bee
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| January 17, 2005 | -
United States Special Forces teams were conducting secret missions in Iran.
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Guardian
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| January 11, 2005 | - A soldier who sued the Army for requiring him to return to Iraq was sent back to serve another tour of duty.
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Army Times
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| January 6, 2005 | - and the U.S. Army Reserves were "rapidly degenerating into a 'broken' force," a high-ranking officer said.
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BBC
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| December 15, 2004 | - The United States Army decided to drive less and fly more.
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New York Times
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| November 17, 2004 | -
Soldiers at Fort Lewis, Washington, were throwing chocolate pudding and lemon-lime Gatorade at each other in order to prepare for duty at Army detention centers like Guantánamo Bay. “I feel good about this mission,” said one soldier. “I get to be part of the solution.”
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The Olympian
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| November 17, 2004 | - The Army and Air Force increased the number of mobilized National Guard and Army Reserve personnel to 182,478, and
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Dept. Defense
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| October 25, 2004 | - The chief contracting officer for the Army Corps of Engineers called for an investigation of how Halliburton was awarded large government contracts for work in Iraq.
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New York Times
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| October 16, 2004 | - Members of an Army Reserve unit in Baghdad refused to deliver a fuel shipment because they said that it was a "suicide mission."
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New York Times
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| October 1, 2004 | - The Army
lowered its standards in an attempt to attract more recruits.
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New York Times
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| August 26, 2004 | - Two government reports, one civilian and one military, were issued on the Abu Ghraib torture scandal. The Army reported that military intelligence officers and civilian contractors were deeply involved in the abuse; the civilian report went to great lengths to avoid the logical conclusion that the Bush White House had created the conditions (legal, operational, and military) that directly led to the Abu Ghraib horrors. Both reports found that many of the techniques employed at Abu Ghraib originated in CIA torture chambers in Afghanistan.
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New York Times
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| August 24, 2004 | -
Army investigators discovered that military police dogs were used to terrify teenage Iraqi prisoners as part of a game. The object of the game was to make the youths urinate on themselves. "It had nothing to do with interrogation," said an unnamed Army officer. "It was just them on their own being weird."
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Agence France-Presse
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| August 18, 2004 | - The U.S. Army announced that it will withhold 15 percent of the fees billed by the Halliburton Company but almost immediately decided to "withhold" the decision pending further review.
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New York Times
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| June 17, 2004 | -
Donald Rumsfeld admitted that he personally ordered that an Iraqi prisoner be concealed from the Red Cross, a practice that Gen. Anthony Taguba has described as "deceptive, contrary to Army doctrine, and in violation of international law." Seven months later, the "ghost" prisoner had still not been interrogated, aside from a cursory session when he first arrived at Camp Cropper.
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Reuters, New York Times
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| June 3, 2004 | - The Army decided to extend the service commitment of all soldiers bound for Iraq.
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New York Times
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| May 31, 2004 | - An Army Corps of Engineers email revealed that Vice President Dick Cheney's office "coordinated" Halliburton's multi-billion-dollar Iraq contract; Cheney has said that he had nothing to do with the contract, which was awarded without competing bids.
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Agence France-Presse
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| May 25, 2004 | - President Bush unveiled his new "five-point plan" for Iraq during a speech at the Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and offered to destroy the Abu Ghraib prison if Iraqis want him to; the president also promised to give Iraq a modern prison system.
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New York Times
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| March 26, 2004 | - The Army confirmed that the suicide rate has been higher among soldiers stationed in Iraq.
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New York Times
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| March 18, 2004 | - The U.S. Army and DuPont were hoping to dispose of 1,200 tons of VX nerve gas by mixing it with sodium hydroxide and hot water and then dumping it into the Delaware River.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
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| March 10, 2004 | - It was reported that the Army has been buying surplus cadavers and blowing them up in land-mine experiments.
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Times-Picayune
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| January 18, 2004 | - A U.S. Army study concluded that the tactics of the Iraqi guerrillas are getting more sophisticated; officials said that they feared the guerrillas were studying the flight patterns of American helicopters and other aircraft.
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New York Times
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| January 13, 2004 | - The Army War College published a report concluding that the conquest of Iraq was a "detour" that undermined the war on terrorism.
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New York Times
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| January 7, 2004 | - The head of the Army Corps of Engineers waived federal contracting requirements for Halliburton's operations in Iraq that would have required the company to submit cost and pricing information on its gasoline imports even though Halliburton was recently accused of overcharging the government $61 million for gasoline.
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New York Times
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| November 28, 2003 | -
President Bush showed up in Iraq for Thanksgiving wearing an Army
tracksuit; Bush stayed in the country for two and a half hours, the same amount of time spent by President Lyndon B. Johnson in Vietnam, in 1966.
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New York Times
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| October 20, 2003 | - Iraqis in Faluja were photographed dancing on a demolished U.S. Army truck after it was blown up and set on fire by local residents.
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New York Times
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| September 21, 2003 | - A U.S. Army chaplain was arrested on suspicion of being a Muslim spy.
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Independent
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| September 3, 2003 | - Jessica Lynch, the former Army private who was captured by Iraqis and became the subject of an elaborate heroic fiction, signed a book deal and reportedly received a $1 million advance.
Lynch will share the advance with her co-author Rick Bragg, a former New York Times reporter.
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New York Times
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| August 28, 2003 | - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers revealed that Brown and Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton, Vice President Dick Cheney's old company, has received more than $1.7 billion in military contracts in Iraq, far more than was previously known. It was noted that the practice of outsourcing logistical operations to private contractors was pioneered by Cheney during the first Gulf War when he was secretary of defense. Brown and Root won the first such contract, and Cheney was hired as CEO of Halliburton soon afterward.
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Washington Post
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| August 15, 2003 | - The United States Army delayed the destruction of more than 1,20
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