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After nearly four years of hoping and praying for his safe return, the parents of the nation's first soldier listed as missing in action in the Iraq war said their son's remains have been found in Iraq. An Army general visited the couple in a Cincinnati suburb Sunday afternoon to give Carolyn and Keith Maupin the sad news about their son, Sergeant Matt Maupin. "Matt is coming home," his father said. "He's completed his mission...
...asked a former IRA soldier, a bomb maker, if Marion was right. "You can't know for sure," he said. "They wrongly called an end to the conflict in 1962." He agreed that no one was satisfied with the power-sharing agreement that technically gives the province's Catholics as much say in government as the Protestants. And one of the biggest problems for Northern Irish Catholics is unemployment; much of the lost generation only knows how to fight...
...SOLDIER'S VIEW An Army Ranger in Iraq reflects on the ongoing cost of the war, at time.com/4000
...Germans are not allowed to fight at night and Turks can't fire except in self-defense. In the view of U.S. and NATO officials, such restrictions are badly handicapping the entire alliance. Testifying before Congress this month, one top U.S. general said caveats "increase the risk for every soldier, sailor, airman and Marine the alliance deploys...
...fatalities in Afghanistan, almost all of them in the past two years. Based on the size of Canada's contingent, that is a higher rate than the U.S. has sustained in Iraq. U.S. casualties in Afghanistan have risen, too. From 2002 to 2004, the Taliban killed one U.S. soldier a week; last year the rate was twice that...