Veteran sentenced for tax evasion relating to consulting work in Iraq
Source: Kansas City Star
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-09 07:05:10 -0700 | political-news
April 9 An Iraq war veteran from Louisburg, Kan., was sentenced to house arrest for tax evasion relating to income he made when he returned overseas as a consultant...Light, 43, who served as a lieutenant colonel in the Kansas Army...
Post conflict women: Iraq – Hope and violence
Source: DAWN
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-09 00:37:20 -0700 | political-news
Iraq Hope and violence Shatha Al-Abosi. -Photo by author I asked ten of my staff which of them beat their wives...These were the words of Canon Andrew White, otherwise known as The Vicar of Baghdad when explaining the scale of...
Baghdad saves IQD180bn
Source: Zawya Political
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-08 23:08:27 -0700 | political-news
Baghdad's provincial Legal Committee revealed that it has stopped a financial waste estimated at 180 billion dinars in a project regards the setting of 18 security checkpoints in the capital. Sabar al-Saadi, Chairman of the Committee told "Shafaq News", that...
What's the price of a life?
Source: Washington Post
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-08 21:27:19 -0700 | political-news
The Washington Post It's going to be hard for the Defense Department to meet the challenges laid out by Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen...We can't afford excess equipment, Dempsey said at a March 28 news conference...U.S soldiers from Stryker Brigade Combat...
Little Baghdad, California
Source: The Progressive
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-08 14:04:52 -0700 | political-news
Inside hang oil paintings of Middle Eastern marketplaces and rural life. All seven knew each other in Babil province, south of Baghdad...All escaped Iraq because of threats and the collapse of public services. Now, however, all are unhappy, most are...
Former World Bank president withdraws from Pennsylvania college commencement
Source: Fox
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-08 14:05:21 -0700 | political-news
Published April 08, 2013 FoxNews.com The former president of the World Bank has withdrawn from a Pennsylvania college's commencement following critical comments posted on a school newspaper forum. Robert Zoellick, a 1975 alumnus of Swarthmore College, also declined to receive...
Former World Bank president withdraws from Pennsylvania college commencement
Source: Fox News
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-08 09:54:35 -0700 | political-news
Published April 08, 2013 FoxNews.com The former president of the World Bank has withdrawn from a Pennsylvania college's commencement following critical comments posted on a school newspaper forum. Robert Zoellick, a 1975 alumnus of Swarthmore College, also declined to receive...
Icelandic Lawmaker Birgitta Jonsdottir on Challenging Gov't Secrecy From Twitter to Bradley Manning
Source: Democracy Now
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-08 08:01:59 -0700 | political-news
This is viewer supported news Icelandic Parliamentarian Birgitta Jonsdottir played a critical role in Wikileaks' release of the Collateral Murder video, which showed a U.S. military helicopter in July 2007 as it killed 12 people and wounded two children in...
"The Kissinger Cables": Three Years After "Collateral Murder," WikiLeaks Explores U.S. Diplomacy
Source: Democracy Now
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-08 08:01:57 -0700 | political-news
This is viewer supported news The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has just published "the Kissinger cables," 1.7 million U.S. diplomatic and intelligence documents from 1973 to 1976 that include many once-secret memos written by former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
Local veteran leads the push for smoother homecomings
Source: The Glenwood Post Independent
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-07 23:20:33 -0700 | political-news
Purple Star Families The goal of Purple Star Families is to see the following programs developed and implemented by the U.S. Military, to ensure: Every new veteran leaves the military having completed a homecoming preparedness peer mentoring program taught by...
Krugman and Stockman Debate, GOP Reps. Investigate Beyonce and Jay-Z, and More
Source: Truthdig
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-07 20:35:09 -0700 | political-news
With only roughly three years and seven months until the next presidential election, the political punditry was abuzz Sunday morning with talk of whether Hillary Clinton will be one of the candidates on the ballot. Among last week's developments in...
After Years Of Struggle, Veteran Chooses To End His Life
Source: National Public Radio
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-07 15:14:39 -0700 | political-news
Frank Morris for NPR Tomas Young in 2008, before his health took another dive. Frank Morris for NPR After her own loss, Kim Ruocco began working to help others. Her husband committed suicide eight years ago, three months after returning...
Iraq unveils reform of Saddam law
Source: The Daily Telegraph
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-07 11:12:48 -0700 | political-news
S cabinet has unveiled sweeping reforms to a law barring members of Saddam Hussein's Baath party from public life as part of moves to placate angry rallies by the country's Sunni Arab minority. The amendment to the De-Baathification law still...
Has the Biblical Home of Abraham been Discovered?
Source: Israel National News
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-07 02:35:36 -0700 | political-news
British Archaeologists have excavated a mansion in Ur Kasdim, the birthplace of Abraham in Iraq. According to Jewish tradition Ur Kasdim was named this way (The Kasdian Fire) for the great furnace into which King Nimrod would cast worshippers of...
Invitation to lunch turns out to be an invitation to death in Baquba
Posted by: prabirghose
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-07 00:41:55 -0700 | political-news
A suicide bomber blew himself up at the venue of lunch of supporters of a political party in the city of Baquba in Iraq and killed 20 while another 50 are injured as has been reported in foxnews.com of dated...
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