A bomb killed a U.S. soldier on a foot patrol Saturday south of Baghdad, the military said, after a particularly deadly week for U.S. forces in Iraq.Meanwhile, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is expected to present a national reconciliation plan to parliament on Sunday aimed at defusing the Sunni insurgency and tackling sectarian violence, political sources said.The soldier with the Multi-National Division in Baghdad died at about 7:20 a.m. Saturday due to injuries “suffered from a bomb explosion while on a dismounted patrol south of Baghdad,” the military said. The military also announced the deaths of two other soldiers from the same division on Friday....
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 Schwarzenegger denies Bush troop request |
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger this week rejected a request from the Bush administration to send an additional 1,500 National Guard troops to the Mexican border, the governor's office confirmed Friday.The National Guard Bureau, an arm of the Pentagon, asked for the troops to help with the border-patrol mission in New Mexico and Arizona, but Schwarzenegger said the request would stretch the California Guard too thin in case of an emergency or natural disaster.Schwarzenegger spokesman Adam Mendelsohn confirmed the governor's decision Friday after two California National Guard officials revealed it to The Associated Press.Mendelsohn said the governor believed sending more troops would create an inappropriate burden on the state and disrupt the guard's training schedule....
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| Philippines stops death penalty |
Philippines President Gloria Arroyo has signed a law abolishing the death penalty just two weeks after Congress passed the legislation. As a result the sentences of the 1,200 inmates on death row will be now be commuted to life imprisonment. Mrs Arroyo said she welcomed the change but insists she is not softening her stance on fighting crime or terrorism. Mrs Arroyo has been under pressure from the influential Roman Catholic church to scrap capital punishment. The signing comes as she prepares to head to Rome for an audience with Pope Benedict XVI. Earlier this month legislators in the Philippines, a mainly Catholic country, voted overwhelmingly to abolish capital punishment. By Philippine standards the bill was pushed through in record time. ...
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| Virgin tip-off 'led to BA probe' |
A tip-off from rival Virgin Atlantic led US and UK competition authorities to investigate alleged price-fixing attempts by British Airways. It is suggested that last year, a BA executive told a Virgin counterpart of plans to increase BA's fuel surcharge, says BBC business editor Robert Peston. Under competition law, tipping off a rival about a price change is illegal. BA said its policy was to conduct its business "in full compliance with all applicable competition laws". Virgin informed the UK's Office of Fair Trading, which is working with the US Department of Justice on the investigation. ...
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| Remembering the Forgotten War. On June 25, 1950, 56 years ago, war broke out on the Korean peninsula. |
The Korean War has often been called the “forgotten war,” and the label is deserved. Obscured by the apocalyptic Second World War that preceded it and the infamous Vietnam War that followed it, it stands as perhaps the most major American war about which the average American knows or cares nothing. World War II is seen by most as the most just war, the war against Hitler and fascism, the war for the future of humankind, the war of the Greatest Generation. It is the glory of war embodied. Vietnam is perceived as the big failure, the clearest example of military overstretch, the quagmire against which all other misguided foreign adventures are to be measured. One is war at its most righteous; the other is war at its most foolish. ...
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| Iraqis call state of emergency in Baghdad. Yep, the Iraq Resistance doesn’t know it’s defeated, Victory is just around the corner |
Iraq's government clamped a state of emergency on Baghdad and ordered everyone off the streets Friday after US. & Iraqi forces battled insurgents armed with rocket-propelled grenades, hand grenades & rifles near the heavily fortified Green Zone.The military also announced the deaths of 5 more US troops in a particularly violent week for American forces that included the discovery of the brutalized bodies of 2 soldiers. 12 US servicemembers have died or been found dead this week. The fierce fighting in the heart of Baghdad came despite a crackdown launched 10 days ago that put tens of thousands of US backed Iraqi troops on the streets as the new prime minister sought to restore a modicum of safety for the capital's 6 million people. Iraqi & US military forces clashed with heavily armed attackers throughout the morning Fri in the alleys & doorways along Haifa Street & within earshot of the Green Zone, which houses the US & British embassies & Iraqi government headquarters...
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