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Obama Announces Complete Drawdown of U.S. Troops From Iraq by Year's End
ABC News - Thu Oct 20, 2011
President Obama will announce today that the United States is pulling all its troop from Iraq by the end of the year. More»

Suicide casts long shadow after decade of war
AFP - Wed Aug 24, 2011
A soldier kills himself and his wife. More»

Hundreds of soldiers misdiagnosed & wrongly discharged
Associated Press - Sat Aug 14, 2010
WASHINGTON - At the height of the Iraq war, the Army routinely fired hundreds of soldiers for having a personality disorder when they were more likely suffering from the traumatic stresses of war, discharge data suggests. More»

Soldier arrested in connection to WikiLeaks video
Associated Press - Sun Jun 6, 2010
A soldier has been arrested in connection with the release of a classified video of a 2007 helicopter attack that killed a dozen people in Baghdad, including two Reuters news staff, the military said. More»

David Kelly post mortem to be kept secret for 70 years as doctors accuse Lord Hutton of concealing vital information
Daily Mail, UK - Sun Jan 24, 2010
Vital evidence which could solve the mystery of the death of Government weapons inspector Dr David Kelly will be kept under wraps for up to 70 years. More»

Back from combat, women struggle for acceptance
Associated Press - Sun Dec 13, 2009
WASHINGTON - Nobody wants to buy them a beer: Even near military bases, female veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan aren't often offered a drink on the house as a welcome home. More»

13 doctors demand inquest into Dr David Kelly's death
Daily Mail, UK - Sun Jul 12, 2009
The death of Government scientist David Kelly returned to haunt Labour today as a group of doctors announced that they were mounting a legal challenge to overturn the finding of suicide. More»

Did toxic chemical in Iraq cause GIs' illnesses?
Associated Press - Sat Jun 27, 2009
Larry Roberta's every breath is a painful reminder of his time in Iraq: he can't walk a block without gasping for air. More»

Army: Suicide rate among soldiers continues on record pace
CNN - Wed Jun 10, 2009
WASHINGTON - The suicide rate among US Army soldiers jumped in May - continuing a four-month upward trend and on a record pace for a second straight year, according to Army statistics released Thursday. More»

Army officials claim war concussions "overdiagnosed"
Associated Press - Tue Apr 14, 2009
ATLANTA - Mild brain injuries - once considered an under-recognized problem in returning military troops - are being overdiagnosed because the government is using soft criteria instead of hard medical evidence, an Army doctor and two other officials contend. More»

"I am under a lot of pressure to not diagnose PTSD"
Salon.com - Wed Apr 8, 2009
A secret recording reveals the Army may be pushing its medical staff not to diagnose post-traumatic stress disorder. More»

Army manual raises emphasis on electronic warfare
Associated Press - Tue Feb 24, 2009
FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kansas - For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the Army is updating its plans for electronic warfare, calling for more use of high-powered microwaves, lasers and infrared beams to attack enemy targets and control angry crowds. More»

Obama reviewing ban on photos of military coffins
Associated Press - Mon Feb 9, 2009
President Barack Obama said Monday he is considering whether to overturn a Pentagon policy that bans the media from taking pictures of the flag-draped coffins of US troops returning from the battlefield. More»

Army suicides at 3-decade high
Associated Press - Wed Jan 28, 2009
WASHINGTON - Suicides among US soldiers rose last year to the highest level in decades, the Army announced Thursday. More»

Lynndie England: 'What happens in war happens'
The Guardian, UK - Fri Jan 2, 2009
In 2004, photographs of abuses at Abu Ghraib shocked the world: Seven people were charged, but the face of the scandal will always be Lynndie England, the 21-year-old private grinning at the camera. More»

Injured veterans engaged in new combat
Los Angeles Times - Tue Nov 25, 2008
In a little-noticed regulation change, the Pentagon's definition of combat-related disabilities is narrowed, costing some wounded veterans thousands of dollars in lost benefits. More»

Gulf War vet health research lacking
Associated Press - Fri Nov 14, 2008
WASHINGTON - Even as possibly hundreds of thousands of veterans suffer from a collection of symptoms commonly called Gulf War illness, the government has done too little to find treatments for their health problems nearly two decades after the war ended, a panel commissioned by Congress said. More»

General bucks culture of silence on mental health
Associated Press - Sat Nov 8, 2008
WASHINGTON - It takes a brave soldier to do what Army Major Geneneral David Blackledge did in Iraq. More»

White House Launches New Attack on Woodward Book
Washington Post - Sat Sep 13, 2008
The White House yesterday launched a formal attack on a new book that criticizes President Bush's handling of the Iraq war, arguing that author Bob Woodward's opinions are not supported by his own reporting. More»

David Kelly's closest female confidante on why he COULDN'T have killed himself
Daily Mail - Tue Sep 9, 2008
A female confidante of Dr David Kelly raised disturbing new questions last night over how the Ministry of Defense weapons inspector was able to kill himself. More»

Ruling protects Arizonan who sells anti-war shirts
Associated Press - Tue Aug 19, 2008
PHOENIX - A federal judge on Wednesday permanently barred Arizona from using a state law to prosecute an online merchant who sells shirts that list names of thousands of troops killed in Iraq. More»

Suicide hot line got calls from 22,000 veterans
Associated Press - Sun Jul 27, 2008
More than 22,000 veterans have sought help from a special suicide hot line in its first year, and 1,221 suicides have been averted, the government says. More»

Soldier in famous photo never defeated 'demons'
Associated Press - Sat Jul 19, 2008
PINEHURST, North Carolina - Officers had been to the white ranch house at 560 West Longleaf many times before over the past year to respond to a "barricade situation". More»

Marine who died after cross-state chase wrote of war stress
Associated Press - Fri May 16, 2008
TUCSON, Arizona - Last month, Marine Staff Sgt Travis N "T-Bo" Twiggs went to the White House with a group of Iraq war veterans called the Wounded Warriors Regiment and met the president. More»

E-mail from VA worker says to avoid PTSD diagnosis
Associated Press - Thu May 15, 2008
An internal e-mail written by a Veterans Affairs Department employee suggested avoiding a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder for veterans and instead considering a diagnosis that might result in a lower disability payment. More»

Number of disabled veterans rising
Associated Press - Sat May 10, 2008
Increasing numbers of US troops have left the military with damaged bodies and minds, an ever-larger pool of disabled veterans that will cost the nation billions for decades to come - even as the total population of America's vets shrinks. More»

Gulf War ills tied to chemical exposure
Associated Press - Sun Mar 9, 2008
WASHINGTON - Increasing evidence ties pesticides and other chemicals to some, not all, of the Gulf War illnesses that afflict thousands of veterans of the 1991 war, says an analysis published Monday. More»

U.S. troops buy own gear for safety
Christian Science Monitor - Thu Mar 6, 2008
FORT BENNING, Georgia - Commando Military Supply on Victory Drive here is about as different from a musty Army surplus store as you can imagine. More»

Bush, Cheney arrests sought in Vermont town
Associated Press - Fri Dec 28, 2007
MONTPELIER, Vermont - President Bush may soon have a new reason to avoid left-leaning Vermont: In one town, activists want him subject to arrest for war crimes. More»

5 Billion US aid to Pakistan diverted, squandered
AFP - Sun Dec 23, 2007
More than five billion dollars in US aid to Pakistan has often never reached the military units it was intended for to fight Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, and was instead diverted to other programs, the New York Times reported Monday. More»

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