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...organization during the period of spectacular suicide bomb attacks against Western targets and the kidnappings of foreign nationals in the 1980s. Among those attacks was the suicide truck bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in October 1983 which killed 241 American servicemen. At that time, Hizballah had yet to publicly declare its existence and goals, and its leaders have always denied involvement in the anti-Western actions. But Toufeili admits that the group was responsible for the bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks...
...Veterans Affairs Minister Bruce Billson says he is concerned that "Gregg does not appear to have accessed the services available to him." John Ryan, who heads the Federation of Totally and Permanently Incapacitated Ex-Servicemen and Women, wants the government to fund a study to try to identify veterans at risk of suicide. What troops in Afghanistan and Iraq go through, he says, is what all combat soldiers experience. "When people are subjected to what happens in wars, it's very unhealthy." For veterans in 2007, "we need to do a better...
...that active-duty Army troops in Afghanistan and Iraq will stay there for 15 months, instead of the planned 12, until further notice. "And I can't tell you how angry it makes many of us that one individual would create potentially so much hardship not only for our servicemen and -women, but their families, by letting them read about something like this in the newspapers...
...were thinking, 'this car is a bomb.'" Lozano says. Only two nights before, a couple of servicemen had been killed by an improvised explosive device on the same road. Lozano added, "If the car had blown up at that close range, it would have killed us all." The soldiers, he says, cautiously approached the vehicle, guns ready...
...there was fallout for Democrats appearing weak on Vietnam. It's been the Democrats who have been for armor for the troops. We have been for investing in our servicemen when they come back from Iraq. And it is the Democrats who want to get our American troops out of the civil-war cross fire. Democrats are concerned about the security of the fighting person. Too often Republicans are more interested in protecting the reputation of the President than protecting the troops...