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Total US military fatalities in Operation Iraqi Freedom for the month of September 2006 is 73, bringing the total US dead in the conflict to 2715. |
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General John Abizaid tells the US Congress that "Iraq could move toward civil war" if the raging sectarian violence in Baghdad is not stopped. Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, confirmed this likelihood when he also told the panel, "We do have the possibility of that devolvin ... |
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US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld tells the Council on Foreign Relations that "enemies [of the US] have skillfully adapted to fighting wars in today's media age, but ... our country has not adapted." He lamented that vast media attention about U.S. abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq outweighe ... |
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The Australian television program "Dateline," broadcasts more grisly photos and videos of US soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in 2003.
ACLU spokesperson Amrit Singh expressed hope that exposing the additional photos would "bring about further pressure to hold high-ranking offi ... |
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Four US service members were killed when a U.S. Humvee struck a roadside bomb in Afghanistan's Uruzgan province. Following the explosion, the patrol comes under attack by small arms and rocket-propelled grenade fire. |
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The Pentagon now confirms that a special human intelligence unit, called the Strategic Support Branch, was created after 9/11and that its members played a role in the hunt that ultimately led to the capture of Saddam Hussein. |
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Senior Pentagon officials announce that a retired four-star Army general will go to Iraq to conduct an unusual "open-ended" review of the military's entire Iraq policy, including troop levels, training programs for Iraqi security forces and the strategy for fighting the insurgency. |
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The New York Times reports that Pentagon is planning deep cuts in the Air Force's program for its new F/A-22 fighter jet in order to offset mounting U.S. deficits and the ever increasing costs of the U.S. Led War on Terror. |
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In his Christmas eve encounters with U.S. military forces in Iraq, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld delivers a "policy transition message" that the Iraqi insurgents have staying power and weapons and places responsibilty for the final outcome of Operation Iraqi Freedom with "ordinary Iraqis." ... |
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U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld arrives before dawn at an air base in northern Iraq where an insurgent’s attack on a military dining hall killed 14 U.S. troops and eight others earlier this week. |
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Insurgents attack the tent enclosed dining hall of Camp Merez, a U.S. and Iraqi forward operating base in Mosul. Fatalities, including both Americans and Iraqis number 24 with 60 wounded. Initially, and rocket or mortar attack is reported, but a day later it becomes apparent that the attack is a ... |
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The ACLU charges that military interrogators at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay posed as FBI agents, and abused detainees by various methods including inserting lit cigarettes in their ears. |
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US President Bush uses his end of the year address to deliver his most critical assessment of the war in Iraq to date. He suggests that recent terrorist bombings are "effective propaganda tools" at a time when a recent USA Today/CNN/Gallup Poll shows that most Americans disapprove of the way the w ... |
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Two car bombs detonate within hours of each other in Karbala and Najaf. A blast in the city of Karbala killed at least 12 people and wounded more than 30 others. Another car bomb exploded in later Najaf, killing at least 45 people and wounding more than 60. NBC's Meet the Press reveals a poll tha ... |
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Senator Norm Coleman, a Republican from Minnesota, expresses that he has serious concerns about Donald Rumsfeld's leadership. The company providing armored vehicles to soldiers in Iraq says it can make more of them, obviously contradicting Rumsfeld's claim that the Pentagon is getting them as quick ... |
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Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott announces that "I am not a fan of Secretary Rumsfeld. I don't think he listens to his uniformed officers." |
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Stars and Stripes, the newspaper devoted to military news, publishes a statement provided by US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on the issue of a rubber stamp being used for his signature on the death notifications to family of soldiers serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Specially, Rumsfeld w ... |
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The American media reports that the US Defense Department has turned over documents detailing torture of Iraqi prisoners at the hands of US Marines during interrogations. A Navy criminal investigator authored a memo dated June 14, that read "... caseload is exploding, high visibility cases are on t ... |
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The US Department of Defense announces that a test of its multi-billion dollar anti-missile shield has met with failure. Specifically, an interceptor missile did not take off from Kwajalein Atoll, in the Marshall Islands and was automatically shut down on its launch pad. A target missile with mock ... |
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Republican US Senator Susan Collins, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, writes a critical letter to Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld adding to Rumsfeld's faltering support following negative comments by Republican Senator John McCain. |
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Republican Senator John McCain tells the Associated Press News Agency that he has "no confidence" in US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who has come under attack in recent weeks for flippant and inappropriate responses and ineffective leadership. Specifically, McCain told interviewers that "I ... |
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The ACLU posts detailed documents of the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at the hands of US soldiers. |
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The US Military announces that Staff Sgt Johnny M Horne Jr, aged 30, is sentenced to three years in prison for killing a severely wounded Iraqi teenager in Baghdad's Sadr City. In an earlier hearing, the soldiers revealed that they decided to kill him to "put him out of his misery" associated with ... |
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A U.S. Humvee patrol is badly damaged by car bomb attack in the center of the ethnically divided oil capital of Kirkuk, Iraq. Two soldiers and an interpreter are wounded. |
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Senior US Military officials reveal that equipment in Iraq is wearing out at a much faster rate than expected. In 2003, the US Army received an additional $1 billion to pay for wartime repairs, but in 2004 the price tag is expected to climb to $9 billion. "Should the war end today, it would take ... |
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In response to a soldier's pointed inquiry at Donald Rumsfeld, Army Holdings In.c, the Florida company that retrofits U.S. Army Humvees with additional armor announces that it will increase production from 450 units a month to 550 by early 2005. |
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Former National Guardsman Brandon Sandrell of Maury County, TN tells VounteerTV that he raised the urgent need for up-armouned Humvees with US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in 2003, when he was recovering from shrapnel wound ... |
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Pentagon spokesperson Lawrence DeRita reveals that "Four individuals received administrative punishments for excessive use of force - it in particular was emphasized it was the unauthorized use of Tasers." |
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During besieged Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's visit with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other leaders, India expresses its displeasure with US weapons sales to Pakistan suggesting that it could set off an arms race in the region. Rumsfeld was also greeted by the news that Pakistan h ... |
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At Camp Buehring in Kuwait, Army Spc. Thomas Wilson of the Tennessee National Guard and 278th Regimental Combat Team asks US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld "Why do we soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to uparmor our vehicles?'' ... |
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