“I want them to know I appreciate and love them,” she said. “I hope these quilts cheer them up a bit when they need it.”
For Coupeville resident Lynn Scoby, these words from a wounded Marine say it all: “I was hurt pretty bad in Iraq … and then I was shipped to Madigan for rehab. [...]

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Iraqi Government Wary Of Alliance
CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq — Engaging with Iraqi tribal leaders is paying off for the U.S. military, said Marine Col. Richard Simcock in Fallujah.
The Iraqi government sees it differently.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who is a Shiite, said he fears Sunni tribes will rise up.

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BAGHDAD, Aug. 13 (UPI) — Large-scale bombings have been cut in half and tips from citizens have quadrupled since the U.S. military began its surge in Iraq, it was reported Monday.
“The enemy had the initiative and the momentum in ‘06. We’ve got it now,” said Ret. Gen. Jack Keane, a chief architect of the troop [...]

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Army Vehicle Could Be Iraq’s First Hybrid
After focusing on hydrogen fuel cells in its original version of “The Aggressor,” a high-performance, off-road Alternative Mobility Vehicle (AMV) for military ground exploration and scouting missions, the Pentagon is now going the way of Detroit — with batteries.
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BAGHDAD — A sniper round felled a U.S. soldier in the tough Arab Jabour district south of Baghdad. His compatriots charged for a house where they thought the gunman was holed up.One stepped on a buried, pressure-triggered bomb at the house. That soldier and three others died and four more were wounded in the blast.
The [...]

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BAGHDAD, Aug.  13 (Xinhua) — The U.S.  military said that it has captured a suspected leader and a key financier of Iranian-backed Shiite militia in a predawn raid in Baghdad’s southern neighborhood of Bayaa on Monday.
The detained leader is believed to be the key financier of the “Special Groups that are believed to have direct [...]

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BAGHDAD, Aug. 12 — Fatima Jbouri should be dead.
Nine months old, underweight, malnourished, fatherless and half Sunni, half Shiite, she already had enough deadly handicaps growing up in Saydia, a battlefield suburb that has become one of the worst sectarian killing zones in Baghdad.
On July 25, a death squad shot her mother and uncle — [...]

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An unnamed Bulgarian has been supplying weapons for Iraq, it emerged on Sunday, uncovering US loss of control over the flood of weapons into Iraq, the Guardian reported.
The article in the British newspaper reveals that that Italian anti-Mafia investigators had uncovered an alleged shipment of 105,000 rifles of which the American high command was unaware.
The [...]

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BAGHDAD, Aug 13 (KUNA) — The US Army in Iraq Monday reported that “Coalition Forces captured 13 suspected terrorists with ties to extremist militia Special Groups in a pre-dawn raid Sunday in Sadr City.” The statement on the MNF website said “Coalition Forces conducted the raid to capture or kill highly-sought weapons facilitators with connections [...]

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KABUL, Aug 12 (KUNA) — Two soldiers of the NATO led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed and several injured in a roadside bomb blast and a clash with Taliban in eastern and southern Afghanistan, the international security force announced on Sunday.
The deaths of the soldiers were announced in two separate statements from Bagram [...]

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