USA TODAY | Iraq war veteran uses rap to treat his PTSD USA TODAY By Cristina Silva, AP LAS VEGAS – On one of the many days Leo Dunson wanted to die, the Iraq veteran put a gun to his temple and pulled the trigger. The loaded weapon misfired. For the troubled former soldier, it was another inexplicable failure, ... Iraq veteran uses rap to treat his PTSD |
BBC News | Terror Trial of Iraq VP Starts in Baghdad TIME By AP/ SINAN SALAHEDDIN Tuesday, May 15, 2012 (BAGHDAD) — The terror trial of Iraq's fugitive vice president accused of running death squads started Tuesday in Baghdad with witnesses testifying how their relatives were killed in attacks that the ... Iraqi VP's ex-guards say they had orders to kill Tariq Al Hashemi Trial: Iraq Vice President Trial Starts In Baghdad Bodyguard Testifies in Iraqi VP Terror Trial |
Ahram Online | Iraq still operating secret torture site, rights group says Los Angeles Times A clandestine jail and alleged torture site under the control of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki continues to operate more than a year after the government ordered it shut down, Human Rights Watch claims in a report being released Tuesday. Notorious prison still exists in Iraq, rights group reports HRW Alleges Mass Arrests, Incommunicado Detentions In Iraq's Camp Honor Prison Iraq carrying out mass arrests, torture in Camp Honor: HRW |
Atlanta Journal Constitution | Army opens jobs in combat battalions to women Atlanta Journal Constitution Female soldiers this week are moving into new jobs in once all-male units as the Army breaks down formal barriers in recognition of what has already happened in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In a May 9, 2012 photo, Capt. Sara Rodriguez, 26, of the ... |
Iraq veteran uses rap to treat his PTSD Fox News LAS VEGAS – On one of the many days Leo Dunson wanted to die, the Iraq veteran put a gun to his temple and pulled the trigger. The loaded weapon misfired. For the troubled former soldier, it was another inexplicable failure, like his divorce or ... |
ExxonMobil Caught in Iraq Political Standoff Business Insider One of the world's largest oil producers, ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM), has found itself in the middle of a political minefield as it attempts to take advantage of one of the largest oil plays in the Middle Eastern crude powerhouse of Iraq. |
Bloomberg | Iraq Oil Output Beating Iran Ends Saddam Legacy: Energy Markets Bloomberg Iraq, seeking to more than double oil output by 2015, is poised to overtake Iran as OPEC's second- largest producer by the end of the year as sanctions hobble crude production in its Persian Gulf neighbor. Iraq is pumping at the highest rate since ... Iraq Oil Output Beating Iran Ends Saddam Legacy |
A Road Trip Through Northern Iraq Huffington Post The two of us were to be the lone employees of the American University of Iraq Continuing Education Division's satellite campus, which meant Baghdad and the tanks and hummers were behind us. Warren's idea of a convoy was apparently a Nissan Pathfinder ... |
CBS2 Chicago | Iraq War Veteran To Throw Medals Away During NATO Summit CBS2 Chicago (CBS) CHICAGO (CBS) — Greg Broseus earned 11 medals, risking his life for his country, fighting in Iraq. This weekend, during the NATO summit in Chicago, there is one thing this decorated soldier wants to do: give all those medals back. If there were global justice, Nato would be in the dock over Libya |
New York Times | Billions Wasted, Again: State Likely to Give Up on Costly Efforts to Train ... Huffington Post The New York Times reports that the State Department, in the face of massive costs and Iraqi officials who say they never wanted it in the first place, slashed and may soon dump entirely "a multibillion-dollar police training program in Iraq that was ... Period of Relative Calm in Iraq Is Brought to End by Fatal Bomb Blasts State Department denies negative report on Iraq police training Attacks on security forces leave 4 people dead in Iraq |