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Iraqis spent $80m on ADE651 bomb detectors described as useless Simon de Bruxelles, and Oliver August in Baghdad The Iraqi parliament is looking into the sale by a British company of “bomb detectors” costing millions of pounds amid claims that...

The U.S Postal Service expects to process more than 30 million pounds of mail destined for overseas military installations this month and in December, including war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Postal Service is offering free Military Care Kits,...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking at people with suspected links to al Qaeda who have shown an interest in mounting an attack on the computer systems that control critical U.S...While there is no evidence that terrorist groups have...

No, not dirty in the sense of greasy, grimy or gross, but dirty in the sense of unenviable jobs few people would want. For instance, recently I saluted Marine Cpl. Joseph Gonzales as he escorted the body of Kyle Coumas,...

Discover, December issue Andrew Lawler, the magazine's archaeology beat writer, traveled to the plains of northeastern Syria to write about a 6,000-year-old settlement called Tell Brak. The discovery three years ago of more than 100 skeletons has helped archaeologists understand...

Kruse, 61, of Hickory Hills, hooked up with Adopt-a-Platoon, a national group that sends cards, letters and care packages to U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. His volunteerism began in earnest, with e-mail exchanges and online chats with soldiers and...

I felt bad that our military personnel who are putting their lives on the line have no place to stay," Clark County Commissioner Steve Sisolak said. "They have to sleep on the floor." The latest push to provide a place...

Around Christmas, about 10,000 U.S. soldiers serving overseas will receive Zelo- sport, originally developed in 1989 by local entrepreneur Spud Alford...Alford knows that many soldiers fight boredom when not at work, and he’s seeking to fill that void. “This is...

the myth of a miracle bomb detector It's always interesting when people take pseudoscience out of its natural habitat – north London's Islington – and off into a place where the stakes are quite high...Or, in this particular case, detecting...