A Blaine family, who lost their son in the war on Iraq, was given a rare chance to share their grief with President Bush.
The Beardlsey familiy met with President Bush last month. They were in Washington to bury their son, 25-year-old Staff Sargeant William Beardsley, at Arlington National Cemetery.
The family said they wanted [...]

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By Sayed Salahuddin
KABUL, June 14 (Reuters) - Afghanistan and its allies are working to ensure Islamist insurgents do not flock back to Afghanistan if U.S. forces pull out of Iraq, Canada’s ambassador to Afghanistan said on Thursday.
Ambassador Arif Lalani said winning the war in Afghanistan would take a long time and Afghanistan and its foreign [...]

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I’M sitting in Ramallah at The Yasser Arafat Foundation listening to Nasser al-Kidwa, the thoughtful former Palestinian foreign minister, talk about Palestinian society "disintegrating" around him. What pains him most, he explains, is that any of his neighbors today with money, skills or a foreign passport are fleeing for the West or the Gulf. As [...]

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BAGHDAD: Explosions rocked central Baghdad mid-afternoon Thursday, and smoke billowed over the American-guarded Green Zone.
A witness inside the zone, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of his job, said about half a dozen mortars fell in the area. The Green Zone houses the U.S. and British embassies, as well as offices [...]

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BAGHDAD — Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, talked with USA TODAY’s César G. Soriano on Wednesday. Edited excerpts:
Q: What is the current influence (in Iraq) from Iran?
A: The Iranian influence has been very, very harmful to Iraq. There is absolutely no question that Iranians are funding, arming, training, and even [...]

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China Attempting Cyberspace Dominance
The Air Force has been tracking aggressive cyber incursions by computer technicians in China, primarily focused toward gathering information on military network infrastructure and American trade secrets, the Air Force’s cyber warfare commander said Wednesday.
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BAGHDAD, June 14 (KUNA) — US forces killed a female Iraqi "terrorist" and detained three others with alleged ties to a cell that made vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices during an incursion in Baghdad, the US Army said on Thursday.
In a statement, the army said a US tank was chasing two terrorists on Wednesday after being [...]

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BAGHDAD, June 14 (KUNA) — US forces killed a senior terrorist leader and detained 15 suspected terrorists in separate raid operations targeting the Al-Qaeda in Iraq network in Mosul, said the Multi-National Force (MNF) on Thursday.
An MNF statement reported that Al-Qaeda leader Kamal Jalil Bakr Uthman, also known as Sa’id Hamza, was killed Tuesday morning [...]

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BAGHDAD, June 14 (KUNA) — Militants bombed five large Sunni mosques around Babel, south of Baghdad, a police spokesperson Captain Muthana Al-Maamouri said Thursday.
Al-Maamouri told KUNA in a phone call that the militants blasted Hiteen Mosque in Alexandria, 50km north of Al-Hillah at 12:20 a.m. this morning. Three hours later, Al-Mostafa Mosque, in the same [...]

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1. It’s Okay for Providers to Copy Your ID Card: If you have ever felt uncomfortable seeing the receptionist at your TRICARE provider’s office making a copy of your military or family member ID card or TRICARE Prime enrollment card, be assured it is not against the rules. TRICARE recommends that providers photocopy your enrollment [...]

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