Word: iraq
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...this campaign season is my write-in campaign,” Decker said, “The feedback I’m getting is that people are aware of it.”The candidate—who used to read the names of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq at Council meetings to enter them into the city record—said that her constituency consists of “people who care about issues that affect working families...youth issues...and seniors,” as well as residents of Cambridgeport, where she grew up, and North Cambridge, where...
...Southern Baptist minister, Choi got his start in the military as an Arabic and environmental engineering major at West Point, where he received his degree in 2003. Choi later helped found Knights Out, an LGBT support group for West Point graduates. Choi served as an Arabic linguist in Iraq in 2006 and 2007 before transferring to the New York National Guard in June 2008. Harvard Humanist Chaplain Greg M. Epstein said he hoped Harvard students would pay attention to the “selflessness” Choi has shown in standing up not only for himself, but for others...
...solemn assessment by that the "graphic and shocking, albeit brief, exposure of Janet Jackson's bare right breast to a nationwide audience composed of millions of children and adults" warrants - lo, these 5½ years after that insanely overhyped distraction from the Iraq war - further investigation...
...Afghan President wanted an amnesty extended to all Taliban, from their leader Mullah Omar down to the lowliest turbaned jihadi. "The Americans said 'No way. We don't deal with terrorists,' and they excluded the leadership," one senior Afghan official explained to TIME. One tactic that worked well in Iraq has not been used in Afghanistan. The U.S. forces in Mesopotamia were able to buy off the Sunni insurgency there by offering a monthly wage of $300 for each of 90,000 fighters. No such incentive has been offered to the Taliban...
Siblani was referring to the profiling of many Arab Americans by intelligence, law-enforcement and homeland-security agencies. Other skeptics expressed anger with U.S. policies in the Middle East, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the treatment of Arab and Muslim detainees by CIA interrogators. For these reasons, "there is a big gap between the U.S. government and the Arab community," said Imam Hassan Qazwini, head of Dearborn's largest mosque. "And that gap will not be bridged by formalities like iftar banquets...