SHINDAND, Afghanistan (Army News Service, July 31, 2007) - Afghan and international forces are trying to solve Afghanistan’s poppy problem and maximize legitimate agricultural food crops.
First Lt. Gris Babcock of the 207th Regional Security Assistance Command here may have found a way to help.
1st Lt. Babcock has started an agricultural research center to develop crops [...]

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LANDSTUHL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER, Germany — The American College of Surgeons has verified Landstuhl Regional Medical Center as a Level II Trauma Center, making it the only medical facility outside the United States to hold that distinction and only one of three Level II trauma centers in the Department…
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 A new dispatch is posted:  "Bread and a Circus."

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BAGHDAD, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) — Three U.S. soldiers were killed and six others injured in a sophisticated armored-piercing roadside bomb attack in Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Wednesday.
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London - A British soldier has been killed by a roadside bomb while on patrol in southern Iraq, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said Wednesday.
The soldier, from the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment, died from injuries caused by an improvised explosive device in Basra, southern Iraq, late Tuesday.
The device targeted a Warrior armoured vehicle patrol carrying [...]

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BAGHDAD (AFP) - Three large bombs tore through crowded Baghdad districts on Wednesday, killing at least 69 people, as government figures revealed Iraq’s civilian death toll jumped by more than one third in July.
In the largest blast, a truck bomb detonated near a filling station in west Baghdad, setting fire to a huge fuel tank [...]

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Sources tell CBS 6 a group of soldiers part of Ft. Lee’s 49th Quartermaster Group were returning from a tour in Iraq. Because there were only 6 of them - the Army had them fly commercially.
Each soldier gets a government -issued M-16 rile with a distinct serial number.  Flying a commercial plane - they had to check [...]

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Rumsfeld to Testify in Tillman Case
Rumsfeld was a late addition to the witness list for a House hearing on who knew what and when about Tillman’s death in Afghanistan in 2004, which initially was falsely blamed on enemy fire. The congressional inquiry comes a day after the Army laid most of the blame on Philip [...]

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Prague, July 31 (CTK) - The group of last 70 members of the 10th Czech contingent that helped maintain stability and democracy in Kosovo landed at the Prague-Ruzyne airport Tuesday.
The soldiers have been replaced with a new contingent that is to operate in Kosovo until next January.
Czech troops in Kosovo tried to pass greater responsibility [...]

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Prague, July 31 (CTK) - The Czech military started the rotation of its field hospital contingent operating within the ISAF mission in Afghanistan on Tuesday when 38 members of an almost 100-strong team, comprising mainly the 7th field hospital members, departed from the Prague-Kbely military airport.
The Czech military medics are to treat mainly injured and [...]

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