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Among the Graves This Memorial Day - New York Times Mon, 30 May 2011 01:24:03 GMT+00:00

Center For American Progress

Among the Graves This Memorial Day
New York Times
Today, there are families knotted in mourning for a soldier recently lost in Iraq or Afghanistan. There are families for which mourning has become an absence more persistently felt than they could ever have imagined. There is still a generation ...
California home to more wounded and killed veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan ...Whittier Daily News
Memorial Day Patriotism: Cannon Fodder for the Merchants of DeathNEWS JUNKIE POST
Memorial Day 2011: Let Us Especially Remember...Huffington Post (blog)
The Nation. (blog) -Washington Post -Galesburg Register-Mail
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Camp helps children of war dead learn to cope - Austin American-Statesman Mon, 30 May 2011 01:45:49 GMT+00:00

Fox News

Camp helps children of war dead learn to cope
Austin American-Statesman
After Brooke Nyren's dad died in Iraq, she sat alone at recess because her classmates didn't know what to say. One of Alexis Wright's fellow kindergartners questioned whether she was telling the truth about her dad's death in the war, and others told ...
Children of Fallen Troops Turn to Each OtherFox News
Children of Fallen Soldiers Grieve Together at CampABC News
Children of fallen troops turn to each otherNewsday (subscription)
NPR
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Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan Need Support in College! - Huffington Post (blog) Sun, 29 May 2011 20:49:39 GMT+00:00

New York Times

Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan Need Support in College!
Huffington Post (blog)
Nine years ago Joe sustained an injury to his right hand on a hot, desolate Iraq road while disarming an improvised explosive device (IED) as he protected his fellow soldiers. Eight years ago he sat in my Ethics class, serious, tightly wound, ...
Troubled Veterans and Early Deaths After IraqNew York Times
From Battlefield to WorkplacePatch.com
Vets face poor mental health caremsnbc.com
Care2.com (blog) -Muncie Star Press -The Bay Citizen
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Explosion wounds Iraqi defense minister candidate - CNN Sun, 29 May 2011 22:16:24 GMT+00:00

abc13.com

Explosion wounds Iraqi defense minister candidate
CNN
Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- A roadside bomb explosion ripped through a car in eastern Mosul Sunday, wounding an Iraqi defense minister candidate and his driver, police said. Khalid al-Obaidi was heading home when the blast struck. ...
Candidate for defense minister escapes bomb attack in northern IraqXinhua
FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, May 29Reuters AlertNet
Iraq's “February Youth Movement” to hold news conference after detention of 4 ...Aswat Al Iraq

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Kuwait-Iraq ties: The curse of history and geography - gulfnews.com Sun, 29 May 2011 16:21:24 GMT+00:00

Al-Arabiya

Kuwait-Iraq ties: The curse of history and geography
gulfnews.com
By Abdullah Al Shayji, Special to Gulf News Finally there is the resurrection of old hostilities and grievances with Kuwait, Iraq's smaller neighbour. The country which Saddam Hussain occupied, pillaged and claimed as Iraq's 19th province two decades ...
Kuwait seizes Iraq airline assets in Jordan-officialsReuters
Iraqi Airways' funds in Jordan insignificant - officialJordan Times
$1.5 million in Iraqi Airways assets frozen in dispute with Kuwait over Gulf ...Washington Post
Arab Times Kuwait English Daily -Aswat Al Iraq
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Bradley Manning's Father Says His Greatest Fear Is Son Is Guilty - ABC News Mon, 30 May 2011 00:01:08 GMT+00:00

The Age

Bradley Manning's Father Says His Greatest Fear Is Son Is Guilty
ABC News
The thought that his son could be guilty of leaking classified information to WikiLeaks -- including Afghan and Iraq war logs, a quarter of a million State Department cables and two videos -- scares the elder Manning. He hasn't had a chance to ask his ...
AUDIO: Hay debates Wikileaks accusedBBC News
WikiLeaks soldier Manning 'was too fragile to be in Iraq'WalesOnline
Bradley Manning Should Not Have Been Sent To Iraq: ReportNeon Tommy
Care2.com (blog) -Sydney Morning Herald
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Pasadena family still mourns death of son, killed in Iraq - San Gabriel Valley Tribune Mon, 30 May 2011 02:01:19 GMT+00:00

Pasadena family still mourns death of son, killed in Iraq
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
He was killed behind his machine gun only five weeks after arriving in Iraq. He was 21. Irene remembers the moment her son told her he was going to join the military. They were in the kitchen. He was 17 and 9/11 had just happened. ...

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Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, Obama's choice to head Joint Chiefs, is a low-tech soldier - Washington Post Mon, 30 May 2011 01:08:42 GMT+00:00

Los Angeles Times

Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, Obama's choice to head Joint Chiefs, is a low-tech soldier
Washington Post
David Fastabend, who served with Dempsey in Iraq. “For him it is all about leadership.” Dempsey was sworn in as Army chief of staff only last month, but will give up that position in the fall when Adm. Mike Mullen, the current chairman of the Joint ...
Obama to name top army chiefThe Australian
General Martin Dempsey, a Proven Military Failure, Selected for Top Pentagon PostKabul Press
Obama's next military chief to face budget battleReuters
Boston Globe -Daily Beast
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Brothers in arms headed for Kuwait and Iraq - Duluth News Tribune Mon, 30 May 2011 02:39:56 GMT+00:00

Brothers in arms headed for Kuwait and Iraq
Duluth News Tribune
Brothers Chris and Phillip Anderson are heading for Kuwait and Iraq with the Minnesota National Guard. The Anderson brothers and their father, Tim, pose for a portrait in March at Chris Anderson's wedding, (from left) Shane Anderson, Tim Anderson, ...

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Iraq, Jordan Sign Deal for Railway Line Linking Port of Aqaba to Baghdad - Bloomberg Sun, 29 May 2011 19:11:00 GMT+00:00

Ammon News

Iraq, Jordan Sign Deal for Railway Line Linking Port of Aqaba to Baghdad
Bloomberg
Jordan and Iraq signed a Memorandum of Understanding for a rail line linking the Jordanian Red Sea port of Aqaba with the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, Petra said, citing Jordanian Transport Minister Muhannad ...
Jordan, Iraq sign deal to develop Baghdad-Aqaba railwayJerusalem Post
Jordan, Iraq sign accord for rail linkageArab News
Jordan and Iraq sign accord for new rail linkMonsters and Critics.com
Petra News Agency
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