A BRAVE corporal from Whitby has been rewarded for his fighting spirit in Iraq.
Anthony Robinson, a corporal with the Royal Air Force, has been with the RAF since 1999 and has now received a medal for his service in Iraq.
Anthony (29) grew up in Whitby, going to East Whitby School, Eskdale School and finally Whitby [...]

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MEMPHIS (AP) — The mother of a Memphis Marine killed in Iraq is asking for an injunction against a national women’s peace group.
Elke Morris wants to stop the group Codepink from using her son’s image in its exhibits and memorials.
Morris is the mother of Capt. Robert Secher, who was killed by a sniper in Iraq’s Anbar province in [...]

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HOUSTON — Houston and Chickasaw County are hosting a send-off Sunday for about 100 soldiers of the 288th Sapper Co., a National Guard unit scheduled to head to Iraq.
The unit will fly Sunday from Tupelo to Fort McCoy in Wisconsin for several weeks, then on to Iraq, said Guard officials. Local officials said the unit’s [...]

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Soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan will soon receive radar scans beamed down from a spy plane flying at 49,000ft.
RAF Waddington’s new Sentinel aircraft was officially presented and delivered to its unit at a ceremony yesterday.
And now 5 (AC) Squadron - uniquely staffed by RAF, Army and Navy servicemen - are preparing to take it [...]

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BAGHDAD, June 7 (KUNA) — A US soldier has been killed in Salahuddine district, according to a statement by the US army.
The statement said that the soldier was killed on Wednesday in a bomb that exploded as his logistic patrol vehicle passed by near the town of Biji in Salahuddine district north of Baghdad.
The death [...]

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IRBIL, June 7 (KUNA) — The death toll of the suicide truck explosion targeting a police station in the town of Rabiaa, northeast of Mosul, reached 10 people, with 35 others wounded.
A police source told Kuwait News Agency  that the bomber detonated a booby-trapped truck at the police station, adding that four policemen were among [...]

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BAGHDAD, June 7 (KUNA) — The preliminary casualty toll of the twin booby-trapped car blast in Talibia district, eastern Sadr City, on Thursday, stood at 20 people killed and injured.
A police source told Kuwait News Agency that a booby-trapped car was parked on the side of a Talibia road, saying the blast killed at least [...]

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By Mohammad Al-Ghazzi BAGHDAD, June 7 (KUNA) — Authorities nabbed a long-time wanted notorious sniper and safely detonated a vehicle rigged with explosives but another booby-trapped car went off and inflicted casualties on Thursday.
Qassem Aata, spokesman of Operation Law and Order (Fardh Al-Qanoun), said in remarks to Kuwait News Agency that Iraqi government troops detained [...]

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BAGHDAD, June 7 (KUNA) — The demands of Iraqi militant groups are not impossible and 80 percent of them can be accomodated, said the state’s Al-Sabah newspaper on Thursday.
The newspaper quoted a government source as saying negotiations had been conducted between representatives of the groups and advisors of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki over the [...]

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IRBIL, June 7 (KUNA) — Gunmen killed two police officers and two civilians in separate incidents in the city of Mosul, northern Iraq, police said on Thursday.
The source told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) the unknown gunmen shot dead Lieutenant Haider Al-Jaburi in western Mosul, adding that an Iraqi woman and a man were also killed [...]

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