2013年1月5日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Fugitive Saddam deputy lends support to Iraq Sunni protests

Posted: 05 Jan 2013 02:14 PM PST

Iraqi Sunni Muslims wave national flags and chant slogans during an anti-government demonstration in TikritBAGHDAD (Reuters) - The most senior member of the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's entourage still at large has urged Sunni Muslim anti-government protesters to stand their ground until the Shi'ite prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, is toppled. Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri heads Saddam's now-banned Baath party, whose leaders fled or went underground after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 that overthrew the Sunni strongman and empowered the Shi'ite majority. ...

Gun owners push back: a former Marine's letter to Dianne Feinstein

Posted: 05 Jan 2013 01:00 PM PST

Talk of reviving an assault weapons ban and creating a national gun registry in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., school massacre is touching a deep nerve in America, epitomized this week by debate over a stern open letter to Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D) from a former Marine.

McChrystal takes blame for Rolling Stone article

Posted: 05 Jan 2013 12:09 PM PST

FILE - This July 23, 2010, file photo shows Gen. Stanley McChrystal reviewing troops for the last time as he is honored at a retirement ceremony at Fort McNair in Washington. Speaking out for the first time since he resigned, retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal writes in a new memoir that he takes the blame for the Rolling Stone article that ended his Afghan command and army career, including for the unflattering comments attributed to his staff about the Obama administration. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaking out for the first time since he resigned, retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal takes the blame for a Rolling Stone article and the unflattering comments attributed to his staff about the Obama administration that ended his Afghanistan command and army career.

Infantry now shut to women; do they want it open?

Posted: 05 Jan 2013 08:24 AM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2012, file photo, Deputy Defense Undersecretary for Military Personnel Policy Vee Penrod, left, and Principal Director for Military Personnel Policy Maj. Gen. Gary Patton, speak at the Pentagon on the results of the department's Women in Service Review. If or when the Pentagon lets women become infantry troops, the country's front-line warfighters, how many women will want to? The answer is probably not many. The Iraq and Afghanistan wars did change the face of combat and highlighted the need for women to play new roles and women already can be assigned to some combat arms jobs such as operating the Patriot missile system or field artillery radar, but offensive front-line fighting jobs will be the hardest nut to crack. Many believe women eventually could be in the infantry, but the Pentagon for years has been moving slowly on that front. (AP Photo Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — If or when the Pentagon lets women become infantry troops — the country's front-line warfighters — how many women will want to?

Sectarianism will prolong instability in Iraq: Saudi Arabia

Posted: 05 Jan 2013 07:30 AM PST

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal gestures during a joint news conference with his Egyptian counterpart Mohamed Kamel Amr in RiyadhRIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia on Saturday warned Iraq against sectarian extremism after two weeks of protests by Sunni Muslims against Baghdad's Shi'ite-led government. The street protests across Iraq's Sunni heartland have strained the Arab state's fragile political balance and renewed fears of intensified sectarian strife. "We are convinced that Iraq will not stabilize until it starts handling issues without sectarian extremism... ...

Vets face confusion using GI Bill at state schools

Posted: 05 Jan 2013 07:07 AM PST

This 2008 photo provided by Stephen Lee shows Lee, right, having a meal with Afghans in Paktika province, Afghanistan. Lee was still in Afghanistan - his second deployment to the war zone - when he began looking at colleges. The California native settled on the University of Wisconsin-Madison and had already begun his studies when he learned of the coming changes to his GI Bill benefits. He was looking at an extra $20,000 a year out of pocket. "It was a HUGE jump," says Lee, whose military occupational specialty, or MOS, was human intelligence collector. "And that's when I had to start thinking really hard about whether or not I was going to be able to afford school, or whether I'd have to take a year off and work while I tried to get in-state status." Around that time, the state launched its Yellow Ribbon Program, under which the university and the VA agree to split the difference between the resident and nonresident rate. There was only a limited amount set aside for the program, but Lee lucked out. "This uncertainty almost took me out of school," he says. (AP Photo/Stephen Lee)RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — In choosing to serve her country in uniform, Hayleigh Lynn Perez knowingly accepted a nomadic life. Now the former Army sergeant says she and thousands of other veterans trying to get a higher education are being penalized for that enforced rootlessness.

Iraqi president said to be recovering from stroke

Posted: 05 Jan 2013 05:55 AM PST

FILE - In this Friday, July 1, 2011 file photo, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani listens to the speech of Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou during a European Socialist parties conference, in Athens. Talabani's office said Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013, that he is responding to treatment and is making progress in recovering from a stroke last month. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's ailing president is responding to treatment and is making progress in recovering from a stroke last month, the leader's office said Saturday.

No rush by women in military to join infantry

Posted: 05 Jan 2013 05:25 AM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — If or when the Pentagon lets women become infantry troops — the country's front-line warfighters — how many women will want to?

Iraq presidency claims progress in stroke recovery

Posted: 05 Jan 2013 04:46 AM PST

BAGHDAD (AP) — The office of Iraq's ailing president says he is making progress in a German hospital recovering from a stroke last month.

Excavators head to Myanmar to find WWII Spitfires

Posted: 05 Jan 2013 03:05 AM PST

David Cundell project leader of the archaeological attempt to dig up and recover a number of British World War II Spitfire Mark XIV fighter planes, buried in Myanmar at the end of the WWII, as they speak to members of the media during a briefing on how they intend to discover the aircraft, at a hotel near London's Heathrow Airport, Friday, Jan. 4, 2013. The iconic Battle of Britain Spitfires according to records were crated, stored and then buried rather than ship them back to Britain, at various locations around Myanmar as British forces left the country following the defeat of Japan at the end of WWII. The group leave to Myanmar Saturday Jan 5. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)LONDON (AP) — An airplane-obsessed farmer, a freelance archaeologist and a team of excavators are heading to the Myanmar city of Yangon on Saturday to find a nearly forgotten stash of British fighter planes thought to be carefully buried beneath the former capital's airfield.

Security America Mortgage Partners with Non-profit Organizations to Raise Awareness on Veteran's Housing Issues

Posted: 05 Jan 2013 12:14 AM PST

Enhancing the lives of veterans in Houston takes efforts from both private business and non-profit organizations.Houston, Tx (PRWEB) January 05, 2013 Recently, staff members from Security America Mortgage, Inc., a Houston VA home loan lender, participated in an Association of the United States Army general membership meeting held at the Renaissance Houston Greenway Plaza, where AUSA members spoke out with a call to action for collecting funds to build a U.S. Army museum.U.S. Army retired Brig. Gen. ...

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