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U.S.: Army Underreporting Suicides, Says GI Advocacy Group

U.S.: ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov 16 (IPS) - According to a soldiers' advocacy group at Fort Hood, the U.S. base where an army psychiatrist has been charged with killing 13 people and wounding 30 in a Nov. 5 rampage, the official suicide ...

From DAHR JAMAIL, Inter Press Service,  16 Nov 2009
Related Topics: The Pentagon,  US Marine Corps,  RAND Corporation

U.S.: Army Sends Infant to Protective Services, Mom to Afghanistan

U.S.: VENTURA, California, Nov 13 (IPS) - U.S. Army Specialist Alexis Hutchinson, a single mother, is being threatened with a military court-martial if she does not agree to deploy to Afghanistan, despite having been told she would be ...

From DAHR JAMAIL, Inter Press Service,  13 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Alexis Hutchinson

Where Will They Get the Troops? Preparing Undeployables for the Afghan Front

As the Obama administration debates whether to send tens of thousands of extra troops to Afghanistan, an already overstretched military is increasingly struggling to meet its deployment numbers. Surprisingly, one place it seems to be targeting is ...

From DAHR JAMAIL, Huffington Post,  8 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  82nd Airborne Division,  Washington Post Company,  Nidal Malik Hasan,  Taliban

U.S.: "War Comes Home" with Ft. Hood Shootings

U.S.: PHOENIX, Arizona, Nov 6 (IPS) - While investigators probe for a motive behind the mass shooting at the Fort Hood military base in Texas Thursday, in which an army psychiatrist is suspected of killing 13 people, military personnel at ...

From DAHR JAMAIL, Inter Press Service,  6 Nov 2009
Related Topics: The Pentagon,  Nidal Malik Hasan,  Walter Reed Hospital,  Michael Mullen,  Robert Gates

Dahr Jamail: Warehousing Soldiers in the Homeland

"While the entire replacement detachment contains 500 soldiers, there are 40 AWOLs in Echo and about 20 in for holdovers/personnel issues and post-UCMJ [Uniform Code of Military Justice] Punishment, totaling about 60 people. "Some are given the ...

From DAHR JAMAIL, Huffington Post,  10 Aug 2009
Related Topics: RAND Corporation,  U.S. Congress,  The Pentagon

Dahr Jamail: Refusing to Comply: The Tactics of Resistance in an All-Volunteer Military

"There is no way I will deploy to Afghanistan. The occupation is immoral and unjust. It does not make the American people any safer. It has the opposite effect." Ten days later, he refused to obey a direct order from his company commander to ...

From DAHR JAMAIL, Huffington Post,  1 Jul 2009
Related Topics: The Pentagon,  Josh Simpson,  US Department of Defense,  Barack Obama,  Burger King

U.S.: "There's No Way I'm Going to Deploy to Afghanistan"

U.S.: MARFA, Texas, May 26 (IPS) - "Its a matter of what Im willing to live with," Specialist Victor Agosto of the U.S. Army, who is refusing orders to deploy to Afghanistan, explained to IPS. "Im not willing to participate in this ...

From DAHR JAMAIL, Inter Press Service,  26 May 2009
Related Topics: Facebook Inc.

US: Culture of Unpunished Sexual Assault in Military

US: MARFA, Texas, United States, Apr 30 (IPS) - Sexual assault of women serving in the U.S. military, while brought to light in recent reports, has a long tradition in that institution. Women in America were first allowed into the military ...

From DAHR JAMAIL, Inter Press Service,  30 Apr 2009

Finally, Iraqis Get Health Care -- on the Market

BAGHDAD - Prompt medical care is at last on offer in Iraq, for those who can find the dollars for it. "Why would I want to go to government-run hospitals where there is no care, no functioning instruments, long lines, and in the end the same doctor ...

From DAHR JAMAIL, AntiWar.com,  8 Mar 2009
Related Topics: United Nations

For Many Iraqi Women and Girls, 'Internally Displaced' Means Homeless

BAGHDAD, (IPS) -- "We only want a normal life," says Um Qasim, sitting in a bombed out building in Baghdad. She and others around have been saying that for years. Um Qasim lives with 13 family members in a brick shanty on the edge of a former military ...

From DAHR JAMAIL, AlterNet.org,  24 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Saddam Hussein,  Qusay Hussein

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