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• Insurgents fight Iraqi forces in city of Mosul
• Shower of rose petals over Statue of Liberty marks D-Day
• Attacks across Iraq kill 27 people
• Fighting in Iraq's Anbar forces 500,000 to flee: UNHCR
• One message from Normandy
• College grads enjoyed big employment edge in May
• Spain to pursue inquiry into killing of cameraman by U.S. shell in Iraq
• Obama: D-Day forged 'beachhead' for new democratic age
• Suicide bombers, fighting kill 36 in northern Iraq
• Attacks in northern Iraq kill 20 people
• D-Day and the words of war
• Legacy of D-Day veterans rests with 9/11 generation, Obama says
• Under pressure from Baghdad, Italy warns oil traders off Kurdish tanker
• Let’s Negotiate With Terrorists
• Officials: attacks kill 13 people in Iraq
• D-Day: A World War II Novel’s Lessons for Today’s Troops
• Officials: Double car bomb attack kills 7 in Iraq
• Somewhere, Bin Laden Is Smiling
• What Happened to Marine Deserter Wassef Ali Hassoun?
• Veterans honor D-Day's fallen, 70 years on
• Clinton book: Bergdahl release always sought
• Clinton memoir: Not arming Syria rebels Obama's call

Insurgents fight Iraqi forces in city of Mosul Posted: 06 Jun 2014 02:41 PM PDT By Ziad al-Sinjary MOSUL Iraq (Reuters) - Dozens of people including civilians were killed on Friday in fighting between Sunni Islamist insurgents and Iraqi government troops in the northern city of Mosul, a day after a curfew was imposed there. The fighting erupted in Mosul a day after government forces used helicopters to bomb militants and retake control of the city of Samarra further to the south. The insurgents have been gathering momentum over the past year in their conflict with Iraq's Shi'ite Muslim-led government, particularly in western provinces bordering Syria such as Nineveh, of which Mosul is the capital.

Shower of rose petals over Statue of Liberty marks D-Day Posted: 06 Jun 2014 01:05 PM PDT A million red rose petals were showered over the Statue of Liberty on Friday in a spectacular display to mark the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landing in Normandy during World War II. Dropped from three helicopters, the petals looked tiny against Lady Liberty, a 305-foot (93-meter) colossus rising from an island in New York harbor. One hundred and thirty French and American schoolchildren unfurled huge French and American flags at the foot of the statue, and sung French and American hymns, in honor of the US forces that stormed ashore June 6, 1944 to help liberate France from Nazi occupation. "I am not a hero, the heroes are still in Normandy, and France," said 91-year-old Joseph Chiopolo, a former army medic who remembers the landing on Omaha Beach with horror.

Attacks across Iraq kill 27 people Posted: 06 Jun 2014 12:52 PM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — A back-to-back car bombing targeting an ethnic minority in northern Iraq and other attacks on members of security forces and a Shite village killed at least 27 people on Friday, Iraqi officials said.

Fighting in Iraq's Anbar forces 500,000 to flee: UNHCR Posted: 06 Jun 2014 11:50 AM PDT The number of people driven from their homes by months of fighting in western Iraq's Anbar province may have spiralled to nearly 480,000, the UN refugee agency warned on Friday. "As of today, the Iraqi government says 434,000 men, women and children have fled their homes since fighting escalated in January this year," said UNHCR spokesman Adrian Edwards. "UNHCR believes the current figure is now close to 480,000," he told reporters in Geneva. A special UNHCR appeal to help the victims of the crisis was launched in March but has only gathered 12 percent of the $26.4 million (19 million euro) needed, he said.

One message from Normandy Posted: 06 Jun 2014 11:41 AM PDT At ceremonies today at the American cemetery near Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, President Obama acknowledged the sacrifices of those who on D-Day, June 6, 1944, began the liberation of Europe. "What more powerful manifestation of America's commitment to human freedom than the sight of wave after wave after wave of young men boarding those boats to liberate people they had never met," Mr. Obama said.

College grads enjoyed big employment edge in May Posted: 06 Jun 2014 11:40 AM PDT U.S. employers loaded up on college-educated workers in May. A hefty 332,000 new jobs last month went to those who finished college, the Labor Department said Friday. That caused the unemployment rate ...

Spain to pursue inquiry into killing of cameraman by U.S. shell in Iraq Posted: 06 Jun 2014 11:40 AM PDT Spain's High Court ruled on Friday that a criminal investigation into the killing of Spanish cameraman Jose Couso by a U.S. tank shell in Iraq in 2003 could be pursued, despite a new law placing limits on judicial powers in international cases. Reuters cameraman Taras Protsyuk, a Ukrainian, was also killed by the shell that crashed into a Baghdad hotel. A law passed by Spain's center-right government in March curbed the powers of judges to prosecute human rights cases under the principle of universal jurisdiction. The High Court must now rule on the legality of all pending cases one by one.

Obama: D-Day forged 'beachhead' for new democratic age Posted: 06 Jun 2014 11:07 AM PDT Colleville-sur-Mer (France) (AFP) - President Barack Obama Friday paid poetic tribute to the men who breached "Hitler's Wall" and stormed ashore to liberate Europe on D-Day 70 years ago, saying their sacrifice secured a still-evolving age of democracy and freedom. Obama, speaking as a commander-in-chief who wound down the Iraq war and will end US combat in Afghanistan this year, movingly told the dwindling numbers of living D-Day survivors at the Omaha Beach American cemetery in Normandy, that their legacy was safe with a fresh generation of veterans. The president conjured up the moments of carnage and courage when allied forces left an armada of boats early on June 6, 1944 in the English Channel and walked into a torrent of Nazi fire to liberate Europe. "By the end of that longest day, this beach had been fought, lost, refought and won –- a piece of Europe once again liberated and free.

Suicide bombers, fighting kill 36 in northern Iraq Posted: 06 Jun 2014 09:53 AM PDT Mosul (Iraq) (AFP) - Twin suicide bombings targeting Iraq's Shabak minority and fighting between security forces and militants killed 36 people in the northern province of Nineveh on Friday, officials said. The violence in Nineveh, one of the most dangerous areas of Iraq, came as the United Nations said it believes close to 480,000 people have been displaced during a crisis in Anbar province, where anti-government fighters have held all of one city and parts of another for months.

Attacks in northern Iraq kill 20 people Posted: 06 Jun 2014 07:16 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — A back-to-back car bombing targeting an ethnic minority in northern Iraq and militant attacks on Iraqi soldiers and police killed at least 20 people on Friday, officials said.

D-Day and the words of war Posted: 06 Jun 2014 06:55 AM PDT In this commentary from June 2012, Dr. Edward J. Lordan from West Chester University looks at how three presidents used language to convey the need to fight overseas.

Legacy of D-Day veterans rests with 9/11 generation, Obama says Posted: 06 Jun 2014 05:22 AM PDT By Roberta Rampton and Jeff Mason COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER FRANCE (Reuters) - President Barack Obama paid tribute on Friday to U.S. veterans who 70 years ago stormed the beaches of northern France, telling them their spirit of courage and sacrifice is being continued by a new generation of soldiers who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq. For most, it likely will be the last time they are able to witness a milestone anniversary of the Allied invasion in northern France that helped bring the defeat of Nazi Germany. Obama told the stories of several veterans, including 82nd Airborne Division paratrooper Kenneth "Rock" Merritt, who is from Oklahoma but now lives in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Under pressure from Baghdad, Italy warns oil traders off Kurdish tanker Posted: 06 Jun 2014 04:21 AM PDT By Julia Payne and Stephen Jewkes LONDON/MILAN (Reuters) - Italy has warned oil traders they face potential legal action from Baghdad if they buy disputed exports of crude from Iraqi Kurdistan, in the latest setback for the autonomous region in its struggle with the central government over oil sales. The Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) loaded its first pipeline shipment of Kurdish oil onto the United Leadership tanker at the Turkish port of Ceyhan two weeks ago, in a move it said was designed to show Baghdad it controls its own oil sales. But so far the KRG has been unsuccessful in finding a buyer for the oil, as Baghdad has stepped up pressure on countries with political and economic links to Iraq.

Let’s Negotiate With Terrorists Posted: 06 Jun 2014 02:45 AM PDT Who started "We don't negotiate with terrorists"? The president who did just that more than any other. Let's stop this reactionary nonsense.

Officials: attacks kill 13 people in Iraq Posted: 06 Jun 2014 02:32 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — A back-to-back car bomb attack targeting an ethnic minority and clashes in northern Iraq killed at least 13 people on Friday, authorities said.

D-Day: A World War II Novel’s Lessons for Today’s Troops Posted: 06 Jun 2014 02:30 AM PDT On "liberated" ground, where the culture, mores, and indoctrinations seed an extremely different kind of turf, footfalls should be quite light – astute, enlightened.  The shoes to fill would be those of Victor Joppolo, circa 1943.  And he had a grounding (the footing, if you will) that made him a good fit in Italy. Major Victor Joppolo, the hero of John Hersey's Pulitzer Prize winning novel A Bell for Adano, was a reconciler and a healer.  Joppolo's "residency" of cultural sensitivity and benevolence began on the heels of the combat troops that drove the Nazis and their collaborators from Sicily in July 1943.  His civil ministrations supplied the antidotes, remedies, and cure for the militarism and fascism that had infected the small Sicilian coastal town of Adano.  Joppolo was a healer. As he enters Adano, following the Allied invasion, Major Joppolo begins his diagnosis of the ills that have plagued the townspeople.  There are alley ways infiltrated by "horse dung and goat dung, straw, melon seeds, chicken guts, and flies."  Infantry has its "clean-up" battles, Joppolo – as the town's senior civil affairs officer (and de facto mayor) – has a different clean-up mission.

Officials: Double car bomb attack kills 7 in Iraq Posted: 06 Jun 2014 01:17 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — A back-to-back car bomb attack in northern Iraq on Friday killed seven people belonging to an ethnic minority, authorities said.

Somewhere, Bin Laden Is Smiling Posted: 06 Jun 2014 12:00 AM PDT Bowe Bergdahl was "an American prisoner of war captured on the battlefield" who "served the United States with distinction and honor," asserted Susan Rice, the president's national security adviser. Rice was speaking to ABC's George Stephanopoulos the morning after Barack Obama's Rose Garden celebration of Bergdahl's release. Five days after Ambassador Chris Stevens and three Americans were killed in Benghazi, Rice went on five Sunday shows to describe the terrorist attack as a spontaneous riot ignited by an anti-Muslim video. How could she let the president strut into the Rose Garden to celebrate the release of a soldier whose reported desertion triggered a province-wide search that may have cost the lives of half a dozen American soldiers?

What Happened to Marine Deserter Wassef Ali Hassoun? Posted: 06 Jun 2014 12:00 AM PDT Ten years ago this month, U.S. Marine Wassef Ali Hassoun disappeared from Camp Fallujah in Iraq. After a five-month military investigation, he was charged with desertion and theft, brought back to Virginia's Quantico Marine base and then transferred to North Carolina's Camp Lejeune for trial. Yet, a full decade later, Hassoun is as free as a bird. Hassoun was born in Lebanon and immigrated with his family to Utah in 1999.

Veterans honor D-Day's fallen, 70 years on Posted: 05 Jun 2014 11:57 PM PDT COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France (AP) — Men who stormed Normandy's shore 70 years ago paid tribute Friday to comrades killed in the D-Day landings in Nazi-occupied France 70 years ago in a sunrise ceremony that started a day of international commemorations of history's biggest amphibious invasion.

Clinton book: Bergdahl release always sought Posted: 05 Jun 2014 08:01 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton writes in her new book that the Obama administration demanded the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in every discussion it ever held with the Taliban about prisoners.

Clinton memoir: Not arming Syria rebels Obama's call Posted: 05 Jun 2014 04:57 PM PDT Hillary Clinton favored arming Syria's rebels early in that country's civil war but was overruled by President Barack Obama, the former secretary of state said in her new memoir obtained by CBS News. Clinton's long-awaited book "Hard Choices" -- seen as an unofficial start to her expected presidential run -- is set for a June 10 release, but CBS News said Thursday it purchased a copy at a bookstore. Increasingly that's how Syria appeared," she wrote. Clinton said that she returned to Washington from an overseas trip convinced that arming and training moderate Syrian rebels was the best move to turn the tide against strongman Bashar al-Assad.

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