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90 – 9, Senators Moves to Protect Military Prisoners Despite Bush Veto Threat
Senate Moves to Protect Military Prisoners Despite Veto Threat WASHINGTON, October 5, 2005 – In a sharp rebuke to the White House, the Senate overwhelmingly agreed Wednesday to regulate the detention, interrogation and treatment of prisoners held by the American military. The … Continue reading
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Reimbursement Program for Troops Stalls
The Pentagon has not completed guidelines for allowing soldiers, their families and charities to be reimbursed for some combat equipment they bought for use in Iraq and Afghanistan, a year after the passage of legislation calling for such a program. … Continue reading
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Soldier Reports More Abuses to Senator
An Army captain who has reported new allegations of detainee abuse in Iraq met Tuesday with Senator John McCain and staff aides on the House Armed Services Committee and gave them additional accounts of abuse in Iraq that other soldiers … Continue reading
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Iraq militants ‘guilty of war crimes’
MILITANT insurgent groups responsible for killing thousands of Iraqi civilians over the past two years are guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch charges today. In a report chronicling the killing of an estimated 15,000 men, … Continue reading
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Maryland Soldier Killed in Afghanistan War
Maryland Soldier Killed in Afghanistan War Arundel Soldier Killed in Afghanistan; Devoted Sergeant, Family Man Found Purpose in the Military By Nia-Malika Henderson Devoted Sergeant, Family Man Found Purpose in the MilitarynWashington Post Staff WriterTuesday, October 4, 2005; B04 James … Continue reading
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How the Antiwar Was Won
As Washington goes, it was a religious moment. A slender man with sharp features and a thatch of graying hair in an invisible gray suit flitted down the big marble hallway seeming to want to disappear before he turned into … Continue reading
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Army Lowers Bar for New Enlistments
Army Lowers Bar for New Enlistments Army Secretary Noel Harvey and Gen. Richard Cody, the vice chief of staff, said Monday that the Army is using looser Defense Department rules that permits it to sign up more high school dropouts … Continue reading
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Hidden Angle
Two weeks ago we wrote about our concern that little media attention was being paid to a massive hunger strike that had been taken up by over a quarter of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, demanding, among other improvements in … Continue reading
MOVIE REVIEW: Winter Soldier
In February 1971, 125 Vietnam War veterans gathered in Detroit to talk about what they had seen and done in the war. News reporters and activist filmmakers descended on the Howard Johnson’s where they met. The reporters — if you … Continue reading
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Marine Mourns 11 Friends Killed in Bombing
Marine Mourns 11 Friends Killed in Bombing AP Exclusive: Last Marine in Ohio-Based Squad Devastated by Roadside Bomb Mourns His 11 Friends By ANTONIO CASTANEDA The Associated Press Oct. 1, 2005 – Cpl. David Kreuter had a new baby boy … Continue reading
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