“No NATO, No War”: U.S. Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan Return War Medals at NATO Summit
We broadcast from Chicago, site of the largest NATO summit in the organization’s six-decade history. On Sunday, veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, as well as members of Afghans for Peace, led a peace march of thousands of people. Iraq Veterans Against the War held a ceremony where nearly 50 veterans discarded their war [...]
CHICAGO (CBS) — Greg Broseus earned 11 medals, risking his life for his country, fighting in Iraq. This weekend, during the NATO summit in Chicago, there is one thing this decorated soldier wants to do: give all those medals back. “They’re my medals. I earned them. I can do whatever I want with them,” Broseus [...]
American military doctors say the number of suicides in the US Army jumped by 80 percent after the Iraq invasion. Before 2003, the percentage of Army suicides was below civilian rates, but it started to climb in 2004, one year after the US-led invasion, according to the doctors’ analysis, which was expected to appear in [...]
By Agence France-Presse Former prime minister Tony Blair’s sister-in-law Lauren Booth, a rights campaigner and Muslim convert, said on Wednesday that he should be tried for war crimes over the invasion of Iraq. Booth, the half-sister of Blair’s barrister wife Cherie, is in Malaysia for lectures organised by Viva Palestina, a British-based organisation associated with [...]
‘I didn’t think of Iraqis as humans,’ says U.S. soldier who raped 14-year-old girl before killing her and her family
December 30, 2010 No Comment
– Steven Dale launches appeal against five life sentences because he was tried in civilian court – He says warzone sent him crazy and deaths of two colleagues had ‘messed me up real bad’ An Iraq War veteran serving five life terms for raping and killing a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and killing her parents and [...]
By SAM DAGHER BAGHDAD—Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ruled out the presence of any U.S. troops in Iraq after the end of 2011, saying his new government and the country’s security forces were capable of confronting any remaining threats to Iraq’s security, sovereignty and unity. Mr. Maliki spoke with The Wall Street Journal in a two-hour [...]
By MAGGIE MICHAEL, Associated Press CAIRO – The wives of two Egyptian Coptic priests, forbidden by the Church from divorcing their abusive husbands, desperately sought another way out by converting to Islam. When their intentions were discovered, police handed them over to the Church and their whereabouts since have been unknown. The cases caused a [...]
By BUSHRA JUHI, Associated Press BAGHDAD – An Iraqi man killed his 19-year-old daughter after he discovered al-Qaida had recruited her as a suicide bomber in an area north of Baghdad, a police spokesman said on Friday. Al-Qaida has been recruiting women for suicide attacks because they can pass police checkpoints easier than men by [...]
