American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, May 31, 2007 – The American Red Cross is warning military spouses about a new identity-theft scam that targets family members of deployed troops.
The Red Cross was alerted of the scam earlier this month, said Devorah Goldburg of the Red Cross.
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BAGHDAD, May 31 (KUNA) — A Suicide bomber detonated himself near a police station in the town of Fallujah west of the Iraqi capital on Thursday killing and injuring a number of people, police said.
Reports conflicted over the death casualty. Police said an officer was killed and five people were injured.
Medical sources said ten policemen [...]

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PENTAGON — A Pentagon spokesman says the military is still dedicating a "significant amount of assets" to the search for two missing soldiers in Iraq, but acknowledges the search is not as intense as it was.
The troops were ambushed south of Baghdad nearly three weeks ago. Four soldiers were killed in the initial attack and [...]

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More Amputees Returning to Duty
In an about-face, the U.S. military is putting many more amputees back on active duty - even back into combat. Since the start of the Iraq war, the military has begun holding on to amputees, treating them in rehab programs and promising to help them return to active duty if that [...]

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IRBIL, May 31 (KUNA) — One Iraqi police officer and a civilian were killed and several people were injured in separate attacks in Mosul and Telafar, northern Iraq, Iraqi police source said on Thursday.
The source told KUNA an improvised explosive device targeting an Iraqi police patrol exploded, killing one policeman and injuring another in Telafar, [...]

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LONDON, May 31 (KUNA) — A British soldier was among seven people to die in a Chinook helicopter apparently shot down in Afghanistan’s most volatile Helmand Province, British officials said Thursday.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for last night’s attack.
NATO’s International Security Assistance Force said the CH-47 Chinook was carrying a crew of five and two military [...]

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BAGHDAD, May 31 (KUNA) — Gunmen burst into house of a tribal chief aligned with the government at dawn on Thursday and opened up a hail of gunfire, seriously wounding him along with his wife, police said.
The unknown gunmen stormed the residence of Sheikh Obeid Al-Masoudi, the chief of Al-Masoudi clan, in the town of [...]

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BAGHDAD, May 31 (KUNA) — Unknown gunmen killed a police officer outside a bank in Baghdad, while the Multi-National Force (MNF) discovered a large weapons cache, it was announced here on Thursday.
A US Army statement said five gunmen opened fire and immediately killed Lt. Col. Mohammad Shaka Mohammad outside a bank in Baghdad’s Sheikh Marouf [...]

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BAGHDAD, May 31 (KUNA) — Unknown gunmen killed a police officer outside a bank in Baghdad, while the Multi-National Force (MNF) discovered a large weapons cache, it was announced here on Thursday.
A US Army statement said five gunmen opened fire and immediately killed Lt. Col. Mohammad Shaka Mohammad outside a bank in Baghdad’s Sheikh Marouf [...]

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BAGHDAD, May 31 (KUNA) — Three US soldiers were killed in two separate incidents in Iraq, the army said Thursday, thus making the month of May the bloodiest for US troops with 120 killed.
The US Army said in a statement that one soldier working under the Multi-National Force (MNF) died in a non-combat incident, while [...]

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