By Wiltshire Times Reporter
A TROWBRIDGE-based website is offering troops serving in Basra and in Afghanistan the chance to create a video link with their friends and families.
A new innovation of Forces Reunited is a Face to Face Video Reunion Service.
The service, launched yesterday, will allow all of the 340,000 members of Forces Reunited to see [...]

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Even on visits home to Nevada County, Calif., Marine Cpl. Sean A. Stokes never wavered in his desire to go back to Iraq, despite intense combat and wounds that earned him three Purple Hearts.
”He said it wasn’t so much about patriotism or esprit de corps, although those things were important to him,” said Jim Ruffalo, [...]

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WHEN THE New York Times poll found that the number of Americans who think it was right for the United States to go to war in Iraq rose from 35 percent in May to 42 percent in mid-July, rather than promptly report the new poll findings, the paper conducted another poll. As the Times’ Janet [...]

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CANBERRA, Aug.  2 (Xinhua) — Australia will send a six-member legal team to Iraq to help the Middle East country strengthen its law and order sector.
The Australian contribution will be part of a group of lawyers, investigators and court officers, Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer and Defense Minister Brendan Nelson announced Thursday.
The team will train [...]

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(Fort Wayne - WANE)  Close to 70 members of the 122nd Fighter Wing based at the Indiana Air National Guard Base in Fort Wayne are on their way to take part in Operation Iraqi Freedom in the Middle East.  The group, known as a "maintenance pack" left Wednesday afternoon for the 158th Fighter Wing located [...]

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LONDON, Aug 2 (KUNA) — Serving British soldiers have put together an exhibition depicting their experiences in Afghanistan’s troubled Helmand province, it was announced here Thursday.
The exhibition, which opens today at the National Army Museum, in south-west London, is the brainchild of the 16 Air Assault Brigade, the first NATO troops into Helmand province in [...]

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IRBIL, Aug 2 (KUNA) — Security forces defused Thursday a booby-trapped car near the headquarters of the South Korean forces in Irbil, northern Iraq.
A security source, requesting anonymity, told KUNA that the intention of the bombers was to drive the car into the headquarters, but that security forces were able to stop them.
Some 30 kg [...]

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BAGHDAD, Aug 2 (KUNA) — A US soldier was killed and two others were wounded in an explosion in Basra, southern Iraq, the US Army said Thursday.
In a statement, the army said a soldier was killed and two others were wounded when an explosive device went off as their patrol vehicle was passing by.
They were [...]

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BAGHDAD, Aug 2 (KUNA) — Two US soldiers were killed and ten others were wounded in an "indirect" fire attack, said the Multi-National Force (MNF) on Thursday.
An MNF statement said two soldiers, belonging to Task Force Marne, were killed on Tuesday and another ten were wounded.
No further information was disclosed.
Task Force Marne operates within the [...]

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LONDON, Aug 2 (KUNA) — A British peace activist found guilty of damaging US military vehicles after breaking into a UK Royal Air Force (RAF) base in the run up to the Iraq war, avoided a jail sentence Thursday, a court ruled.
Dr Margaret Jones, 58, of Bristol, south-west England, used hammers and bolt cutters to [...]

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