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As announced by Multi National Forces-Iraq, an improvised explosive device storage area was uncovered by Concerned Local Citizens in Hawr Rajab. The storage included five IEDs
Senator Larry Craig (R-Idaho), of Minnesota airport restroom fame, is in the news once again and his action in the Senate is targeting America's veterans.
As announced by Multi National Forces-Iraq, an improvised explosive device was used in an attack in central Baghdad on Friday.
An old missile tip under a bag with a detonation cord. Nowadays they are removing pieces of the road at nighttime, placing the bombs and refilling the road for the new morning...
AC Content Producer Chadd De Las Casas received an email this morning from the MNFI Press Desk with a "hot update" involving Operation: Iron Harvest, including the capture of a senior Al-Qaeda bomb maker.
A statement from the Multi National Forces out of Qayyarah, Iraq stated that a group of Iraqi Police arrived at a stopped vehicle that turned out to be a IED and prevented the explosive from detonating.
Life changed for "ABC World News Tonight" anchor Bob Woodruff as he reported from Iraq in Jan. 2006. An IED exploded resulting in a traumatic brain injury. Nineteen months later, he and his wife shared their experience with attendees of the ASAE Annual Meeting in Chicago.
Many teenagers and adults suffer from IED. If you know someone who is suffering from IED, seek help so they may treat their anger.
When the shell we carry around our hearts becomes a bunker, we not only lost caring, we've lost a large part of our humanity as well.
I was skeptical at first about the reality of IED, but further study covinced me that something is going on. The article discusses definitions, causes and treament.
A person with an IED diagnosis behaves disproportionately violently and aggressively in situations where such actions are considered extreme; his behavior is inconsistent with the degree or severity of the stressor or situation. Is such behavior rare?
Captain Don Larson served with the Army National Guard in Iraq, helping soldiers to maintain their bearings.
The news only shows the bad that is going on there. Show video of the troops playing catch with the kids, or rebuilding schools, or the women giving us gifts!
A straight to DVD horror film starring Tom Sizemore; worthy rent or avoidable trash?
Americans are actively helping U.S. troops and their families in meaningful ways that go beyond words, including donating air miles to Soldiers' Angels Air Miles Donation Program.
The distinguished former Democratic senator from Alaska, the senior statesman who sometimes shares a stage with party superstars Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, is perhaps the most out of touch major candidate in the show.
Sex can be a vital component for any genre of fiction. It's a good idea to know how to approach it when it becomes necessary to step through this shaky ground.
Accusations from the Weekly Standard that diaries written by an anonymous solider for The New Republic appear weak on their face, when the Standard gives anonymity to its own sources which it holds up as proof that Thomas - the soldier's pseudonym - is fabricating stories.
Recently, the United States Army and Marine Corp has pushed for the reallocation of nearly a billion dollars in funding to purchase a new type of vehicles, know as MRAP's, Mine Resistant Ambush Protected.
These Iraqi villagers are literally putting their lives on the line to try and help the US Troops put and end to the al-Quida activity in Iraq and restore their country to some semblance of normalcy.
It dawned on both Jane and me, independent of one another, that yet another thing that we have lost, another thing that we cherished but didn't realize it until we learned that Andy was dead, is being "Laura, Jane, and Andy."
Gaza Strip, an unsigned band out of Tucson, Arizona, plays Fenderskirt and is going to the Rialto.
Two Army vets discuss the pros and cons of embedded reporters on today's battlefield, informing my own decision to shuck the printing press for the M-16.
A statement released by the US military says that the tank fire was targeted towards insurgents who were planting bombs. The incident occurred in Falluja, west of capital Baghdad. One person is reported to be injured and three have escaped.
Good law enforcement combines with a little luck to thwart terror attacks in America.
Westboro Baptist Church is blaming God for the deaths of our soldiers in Iraq.
From war-torn Kosovo to the deserts of Kuwait, Humvee is a global extension of the American way. But for those who ride the real thing in Iraq, the term has become synonymous with lost lives, limbs, and testicles.
George Orwell once said "Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting."
Prince Harry is off to where his death or capture by Insurgents would be a great victory for Terrorism
Though his heart is forever broken over the choices his boys have made and the following consequences, ultimately he holds close feelings of pride for his sons who truly have been blessed with the American spirit.
What do our troops think of the rhetoric that comes from the US? Do they get disheartened by all the bad news that we keep telling them as they are spilling their blood on foriegn soil?
The National Resume Writers Association (NRWA) has donated a Kevlar shield and First Response Backpacks to United States troops stationed abroad with the help of Soldiers' Angels.
Newscaster Bob Woodruff suffered a traumatic brain injury from a bomb blast, while on assignment in Iraq. He is back to tell his story, and to speak out for the Iraq War veterans with traumatic brain injury, who are not getting the care they need to recover.
During his first press conference of 2007, President Bush was asked a variety of tough questions from the media in attendance.
Some soliders come back with wounds the Army doesn't want to pay to fix.
A short listing of commonly used Army/military terms most civilians aren't privy to.
Iraqopoly is a joint effort between The White House and the Department of Defense.
The fact of this middle-class tavesty, indeed tragedy, is that we don't see what's right before our eyes. Do you realize, can you fathom, will you accept a separation by class in your country ?
"See how great a forest is set aflame by such a small fire." James 3:5
An inspection on how two prominent nineteenth-century American authors combined travel-narratives with romantic fiction in order to posit the reader in a similar place as the narrator(s) himself.
I am a proud American who has the courage to stand up in support of the United States military. They stand ready at a moments notice to defend freedom, protect our borders and assist the underdog.
It was as bad a defeat as many had feared would happen. The House is lost and so is the Senate. The task now is to learn the lessons of the defeat and to implement them.
With the start of another NBA season looming less than a week ahead, it is once again time for my annual column ranking the league's general managers.
What plagues Afghanistan? Well a simple answer would be to say everything under the sun. But understanding the issues plaguing the nation is not that simple.
Before I die, I could write a hundred articles, a million words perhaps, all about how the religious right is killing the country that I love so much, but maybe it won't make a difference.
I doubt breaking news that Islamic terrorists in Great Britain were plotting to blow up air planes headed to the United States will awaken many from their oblivious slumber.
The theme of these years True Fourth Of July can be summed up in one
word...IMPEACHMENT.
Poetry for a friend wounded in Iraq.
Are we at war for oil? Have we done the right things while at war? Do the people in and around Iraq hate it there? After reading this article, I hope you are a little more informed.
According to a new survey, intermittent explosive disorder may be affecting nearly 16 million people in America. What is it? What are the signs? Is it more than just road rage?