Posted by: bbss23 on: March 7, 2010
In the previous week, I wrote about the upcoming election in Iraq and the possible violence that could impact it. Sure enough, as the election went on this past week there were many risks and caution for any people who came out to vote. Bombings could be heard from short distances away from Baghdad, but [...]
Posted by: bbss23 on: February 28, 2010
American soldiers as we know have been in Iraq for nearly seven years now, trying to make peace among the citizens and set up a strong central government that is safe for the people to live under. Part of the trouble that went into all this was getting rid of former leader, Saddam Hussein and [...]
Posted by: dillonmoyer on: October 28, 2009
On Sunday Baghdad had one of its worst suicide bombings since 2007. The two suicide bombers got through a few checkpoints before they detonated the bombs within one minute of each other. Over 155 people were killed and over 500 people were injured. The blasts severely damaged the Justice Ministry and provincial council complexes. A [...]
Posted by: lazygirjl on: October 8, 2009
Last Friday, October 2nd, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie traveled to Damascus, Syria on a United Nations goodwill mission to meet with Iraqi civilians relocated by the Iraq war. Thousands of Iraqi refugees were placed temporarily in Syria, Jordan, Turkey and Iran. Angelina and Brad met with two refugee families and discussed the poor conditions [...]
Posted by: lrogersimg on: October 7, 2009
The war with the Middle East should not be still going on, because it is the longest war that the United States has been in. We need to get the soldiers out of Iraq or Afghanistan. We should get as much children and women that are in Iraq and Afghanistan and we should threaten them [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: March 19, 2009
In the upcoming summer, the US military will start cutting back on use of the unpopular practice of holding troops beyond their enlistment dates and hope to completely eliminate it in two years. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said, though, “it may never be possible to completely get rid of the policy”. The policy, called “stop-loss,” [...]
Posted by: mfabry on: March 9, 2009
Twelve thousand troops will be removed out of Iraq over the next six months. Not only will the US be withdrawing troops but also so will Britain. Right now there are 142,000 American troops in Iraq and Obama has promised to withdraw them all within 16 months. Realistically this is not going to happen, there [...]
Posted by: mfabry on: February 4, 2009
Iraqi women are trying to become apart of their country, they are trying to be seen as more than child bearers and chefs. The women in Iraq want to be apart of their government and want to be able to have a say in what happens, and they should have that right. In the article [...]
Posted by: laurengolino on: February 1, 2009
In an interview the teacher of Gabriel Hurles recalled, that “at the beginning of the year Gabe introduced himself and immediately told, that his father “works” in Iraq,” where he is actually stationed there on his second tour of duty. Gabriel lives in Daton Nevada and attends Sutro Elementary School there. Gabe’s birthday was last [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: December 18, 2008
President Bush was in Iraq, signing an agreement during a press conference, when an Iraqi reporter threw both of his shoes at the president. Secret service rushed to take the man down. His family was interviewed and said the man had hatred towards Bush because of all the lost lives of Iraqis. Muntadhar al-Zeidi, a 28-year-old Shiite, is [...]
Posted by: trubino on: December 9, 2008
In rush-hour traffic, a female suicide bomber took her own life at the expense of many others. Fortunately, no one was killed in this attack, and the wounded were rushed to a nearby hospital. The bomb went off near a U.S. protected “Green Zone.” The second in the series of bombings tore through a minibus carrying Iraqi [...]
Posted by: laurengolino on: December 3, 2008
The article I read came from http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2008/12/2008122164623871808.html It is about a string of recent bombings that have been taking place in Iraq. There were three separate ones in one day which killed at least fourteen people. These all took place the day after another bombing in the country which killed over thirty. Hearing about these [...]
Posted by: hannahshulla on: November 25, 2008
Baghdad police said that bomb attack killed 13 women government workers in a bus in eastern Baghdad on Monday. They were on the way to work. Also a female suicide bomber killed five people in Baghdad’s Green Zone compound. Police said that most women killed on the bus were employees at the Trade Ministry. A [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: October 9, 2008
I support Obama on his thoughts and approach to taking care of Iraq and Afghanistan. I believe that we should get our troops out of Iraq, as the American soldier body count is increasing everyday. America has so many other problems within its own parameters that I think its best that we bring our own [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: October 9, 2008
I agree with McCain on the foreign policy for Iraq and Afghanistan. We have to stay as long as it takes us to win and establish those cities in the right way. We cannot just leave in the middle of everything. It will take longer than Obama’s 16 months plan to get every single brigade and [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: September 11, 2008
Llegan los restos del soldado dominicano Luis Félix Nieves, muerto el 28 de agosto en un accidente de tránsito en Irak. Fue entregado hoy a sus familiares. Con Felix son cinco militares dominicanos que han muerto en Irak sirviendo en las filas del Ejército de Estados Unidos. El encargado del departamento, Tomas Montañes, dijo que [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: September 4, 2008
This morning an American patrol boat was in the water just north of Baghdad. An Iraqi personnel mistook this boat and started firing at the boat. When American troops heard and saw this they immediately fired back, killing six Iraqi troops dead. This occurred along the Tigris River and ten more Iraqi soldiers were also [...]
Posted by: sallywatson on: August 27, 2008
While the students at Pendleton were wondering what the first day of school was going to be like, the people of Baghdad had more important things to worry about. Round-up of daily violence in Baghdad, Iraq – Monday, August 25, 2008: – Several bombs exploded in the Green Zone of downtown Baghdad. No deaths reported. – [...]
