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Volunteering for duty

NORTHAMPTON - In April 2004, Marine Captain Tyler Boudreau sat in an abandoned mansion on the southern outskirts of Fallujah and watched the city's residents turn into refugees. US Marines had surrounded the rebel Sunni city in preparation for an ...

From ANNA BADKHEN, Boston Globe,  15 Feb 2009
Related Topics: US Marine Corps,  Walter Reed Hospital,  Dennis Brown,  Paul Rieckhoff,  Saddam Hussein

Dr. Phil, Bloody Sheep Livers, And The Secret To Rebuilding Iraq.

In December 2007, the Alpha Company of the 4-64 Armor Battalion of the Fourth Brigade, Third Infantry Division, arrived in the neighborhood of Saidiyah in southwest Baghdad. More than half of the onceupscale, religiously mixed neighborhood's 60,000 ...

From ANNA BADKHEN, The New Republic,  14 Feb 2009

Up to Half of Iraqi Adults Unemployed

BAGHDAD -- Every morning for a year and a half, Tariq Razzaq has been coming to the decrepit entrance of a neighborhood maintenance office in southern Baghdad with a single goal in mind: to get a job. Every morning, the office employees turn him ...

From ANNA BADKHEN, TRUTHDIG, AlterNet.org,  20 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Saddam Hussein,  Johnnie Johnson

Almost Half of Iraqi Adults Are Unemployed

BAGHDAD -- Every morning for a year and a half, Tariq Razzaq has been coming to the decrepit entrance of a neighborhood maintenance office in southern Baghdad with a single goal in mind: to get a job. Every morning, the office employees turn him ...

From ANNA BADKHEN, TRUTHDIG, AlterNet.org,  20 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Saddam Hussein,  Johnnie Johnson

A hint of freedom for Iraqi women

Iraqi women peek through a gate as Iraqi soldiers search the area during an operation in Huseiniya, near Baghdad, on July 8, 2008. Aug. 14, 2008 | BAGHDAD, Iraq -- In the dust-caked maze of tents and barracks of a U.S. Army base in Baghdad, Iraqi twins ...

From ANNA BADKHEN, Salon,  13 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Saddam Hussein,  Al-Qaeda

Meet Iraq's new SWAT team

A member of the Iraqi National Police stands guard during joint operations with U.S. forces in Buhriz, northeast of Baghdad, Aug. 4, 2008. Aug. 11, 2008 | BAGHDAD, Iraq -- In a few swift movements, an Iraqi policeman hooked his right foot under U.S. ...

From ANNA BADKHEN, Salon,  10 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  US Department of Defense,  Nouri al-Maliki,  Al-Qaeda

Iraq, flush with cash, adrift in spending it

(08-06) 18:43 PDT Baghdad -- Near a new, abstract iron sculpture commemorating Baghdad city authorities' $60 million pledge to revitalize the highway that connects the capital to its main civilian airport, an artist perched on a white cherry picker is ...

From ANNA BADKHEN, San Francisco Chronicle,  6 Aug 2008

"We were basically hiring terrorists"

A U.S. Army soldier with the 101st Airborne Division walks past a member of the Iraqi CLC (Concerned Local Citizens) guard during a patrol in Baiji Dec. 27, 2007. Aug. 6, 2008 | BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Donning pale yellow shirts with Iraqi flags stitched on ...

From ANNA BADKHEN, Salon,  5 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Al-Qaeda,  Saddam Hussein

"If they find out I told you, they will kill me"

A U.S. soldier from the 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment during a joint operation with Iraqi police near Muqtadiyah in Diyala province July 24, 2008. Aug. 5, 2008 | BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The middle-aged man in brown cutoff gym pants and a matching T-shirt ...

From ANNA BADKHEN, Salon,  4 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  John McCain,  Saddam Hussein

Refugees in Jordan skeptical that Iraq is safe

(07-28) 17:27 PDT Amman, Jordan -- After militiamen in the Iraqi city of Baquba attempted to kidnap his young daughter and detonated a car bomb in front of his house, Mohammed al-Bayati locked up his home improvement shop and fled with his family and $6 ...

From ANNA BADKHEN, San Francisco Chronicle,  28 Jul 2008
Related Topics: United Nations,  Nouri al-Maliki,  Al-Qaeda

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