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Law.com - Inside Opinions: Legal Bl (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
A lawyer and U.S. Army colonel who has spent much of the last two years in Baghdad on a special assignment to improve the legal rights of women was named this week to a judgeship in Massachusetts. Gov. Deval L. Patrick nominated Col. George F. Phelan to be a judge of the Probate and Family Court on the island of Nantucket. Phelan is on special assignment to the U.S. State Department as Rule of Law...
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Villainous Company (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Jules Crittenden offers an inspiring glimpse into a battle waged far from Afghanistan and Iraq: What does it mean to be a Marine when you are one of the maimed at Walter Reed on Veterans Day? “Everything,” Cpl. Peter Bagarella, 21, of Falmouth said simply. Theirs is the story of service and sacrifice behind the statistics. “This place is awesome. They gave me my eyes back,”...
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Department of Defense (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
The Army Corps of Engineers has completed more than $1 billion in projects in Iraq this year, with none more critical than a new water treatment plant in Baghdad.
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ABC 7 News - Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
ML 4.0 Transitional//EN> html> head> title> My Way News - An Iraqi"s trek from Sadr City to Monterey... Calif. from ABC 7 News
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Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
It was the start of Albayati's remarkable journey. He moved from the squalor of Sadr City to the scenic beauty of Monterey, Calif. He went from unemployment to grueling labor at a chicken plant and construction sites to his current job as instructor at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, located on the California coast.
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Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
" "I never expected we'd come to this point," said Shama, the head of the Sadr City District Council. "The U.S. Army and the U.S. Embassy have abandoned us. After six years of very hard work, we're worthless. They call us agents, spies for the Americans.""
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BLACKFIVE (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
Bill Roggio notes more of the help that Iran is offering in Iraq Iraqi police detained a senior member of an Iranian-backed terror group in Sadr City in Baghdad. Paramilitary police from the National Emergency Response Brigade detained Khalid Masur Isma’il, who is also known as Abu Mustafa, during a raid in the Shia slum of Sadr City recently, the US military said in a statement. The exact date...
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THE TENSION (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
D ispatches from the Front: WASHINGTON, Oct. 1, 2009 -- Iraqi forces, with U.S. advisors, in recent days have arrested an alleged terrorist financier and recruiter, as well as five suspects in a roadside bomb network, military officials reported. In Balad, the Iraqi army's emergency response brigade arrested alleged Khitab Hezbollah financier and recruiter Khalid Masur Ismail in Baghdad's Sadr City...
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The Fourth Rail (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
A Hezbollah Brigades financier and recruiter was captured by Iraqi paramilitary police in Sadr City. The US continues to release Iranian-backed terrorists.
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Gorillas Guides (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Teachers in poor Baghdad suburb try to accommodate large number of student by limiting school hours. Sadr City’s schools are teeming with students who cram into classrooms so overcrowded that children are forced to sit on the floor and attend school in shifts. Education officials, political leaders and educators paint a picture of schools bursting at [...]
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Institute for War & Peace Reporting (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
Teachers in poor Baghdad suburb try to accommodate large number of student by limiting school hours. By Uday Kareem Al-Mayahi in Baghdad (ICR No. 307, 30-Sep-09)
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The Air Force Pundit (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
September 27, 2009 BAGHDAD — The United States military said Sunday that American and Iraqi troops had arrested a suspect in the murders of at least 13 members of the Iraqi national tae kwon do team in 2006, in a possible resolution of a case that was among the more vexing crimes at the height of Iraq’s sectarian warfare. The team and its coaches were traveling from Baghdad to Jordan in...
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