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Iraq War Enters Sixth Year
Voice of America News, WASHINGTON: Five years ago, on March 20, 2003, U.S.-led forces invaded Iraq to overthrow a dictatorship that President Bush accused of developing weapons of mass destruction. No WMD were ever found. The fight against an insurgency continues even though a troop surge last year has helped reduce the level of violence. [...]
Missile strike kills 16 as Pakistan unrest grows
Agence France-Presse, ISLAMABAD: A missile strike in Pakistan's tribal belt killed 16 people Sunday, witnesses and state media said, a day after a bomb targeting foreigners at an Islamabad restaurant left a Turkish woman dead. The deteriorating security in nuclear-armed Pakistan, a key ally in the US-led “war on terror”, piles pressure on the incoming [...]
Three US troops killed in Iraq rocket attack
Agence France-Presse, BAGHDAD: A rocket attack on a US military base south of Baghdad on Wednesday killed three soldiers and wounded two in the third lethal attack on troops this week, the military said. “There was an indirect fire incident that killed three coalition force service members and wounded two,” military spokesman Lieutenant Michael [...]
US Middle East Commander to Retire
US Department of Defense, PENTAGON: The senior U.S. military officer responsible managing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and U.S. military engagement throughout the Middle East, Central Asia and East Africa, has decided to retire this month after a magazine article said he opposed administration policy toward Iran. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday [...]
Pentagon ‘Extraordinarily Transparent’ in Reporting War Costs
US Department of Defense, WASHINGTON: In a broad-ranging news conference today, Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell fielded questions on the costs of the war on terror, troops’ water safety in Iraq, the fielding schedule for mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles, and a recent contract for aerial refueling tankers. The Pentagon has spent $527 billion dollars fighting [...]
Gulf War syndrome firmly linked to chemical exposure
Agence France-Presse, CHICAGO: Nearly two decades after veterans of the 1991 Gulf War came home complaining of odd illnesses, enough evidence has been gathered to determine that many of them were sickened by chemical exposure, a study has concluded. And some of the damage was likely caused by pills prescribed to protect against the [...]
Iraq war price tag reaches three trillion US dollars: book
Agence France-Presse, WASHINGTON: The war in Iraq will cost US taxpayers at least three trillion dollars, a respected, Nobel Prize-winning economist wrote in a new book which was excerpted in the US press this week. Joseph Stiglitz's book “The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict,” concluded that US military [...]
War-Funding Delays Harmful Within Months, Deputy Secretary Says
US Department of Defense, WASHINGTON: War-funding delays will become harmful within months if continued, the Pentagon’s second-ranking official said here today. Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England said lawmakers have approved less than half the fiscal 2008 request of $189 billion to support operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. “At some point, that delayed appropriation will [...]
Venezuela deploys troops as diplomats try to defuse regional crisis
Agence France-Presse, CARACAS: Venezuela moved 10 army battalions close to the border with Colombia Wednesday as South American diplomats sought to defuse a regional crisis triggered by Bogota's cross-border attack in Ecuador. Officials in Colombia, which has received full US backing in the dispute pitting it against the leftist governments of Ecuador and Venezuela, [...]
