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Al Qaeda in Iraq claims TV office bombingThursday, July 29, 2010 @ 1:29AMDUBAI (Reuters) - The Iraqi arm of al Qaeda has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack this week on the Baghdad office of satellite television channel Al Arabiya, and warned of further strikes on media targets.

Al Qaeda in Iraq claims TV office bombingThursday, July 29, 2010 @ 1:03AMSource: Reuters DUBAI, July 29 (Reuters) - The Iraqi arm of al Qaeda has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack this week on the Baghdad office of satellite television channel Al Arabiya, and warned of further ...

General says care for fallen a priorityWednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 11:23PMAs a battalion commander in the mid-1990s, Lt. Gen. Frank Helmick had to notify a soldier's family that he had died in a training accident. Helmick said the family had three questions: Where is the body; was he in any pain; and how do you raise a daughter without a father?

Rural areas take greater brunt of Iraq War, UW-Madison research showsWednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 4:10PMThe Iraq War has taken a greater toll on the nation's non-metropolitan areas because troops from rural areas experience higher rates of death in the war than those from urban parts of the United States, according to a new study by a University of Wisconsin-Madison sociologist.

VIDEO: Local veterans groups make one man's dream a realityWednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 3:47PMMIDDLETOWN – At 21, Carlos Toro was a spry, charming infantryman in the United States Army with a slicing wit and knack for numbers. Today Toro, now 88, has remnants of a life of battle—post traumatic stress disorder, a brain tumor, damaged eardrums—and a growing hunger to see his grandson.

OSU Hosts Sports Camp for Children Of GuardsmenTuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 4:34PMThousands of Ohio National Guard FAmilies have or know someone deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan. While spouses  can handle the stress of war, it often takes a toll on kids. But today, The Ohio State University ran interference to help these children forget the dangers their parents face.  

Wikileaks Afghan files: Is this US soldier behind leak of military secrets?Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 5:55AMArmy intelligence expert Bradley Manning, 22, boasted he had downloaded hundreds of thousands of documents, according to computer hacker Adrian Lamo.

Pentagon investigates leaked papersTuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 1:15AMThe Pentagon said it was launching a manhunt to find whoever leaked tens of thousands of classified documents on the war in Afghanistan, one of the largest security breaches in US military history.

Channel loses ?15 employeesTuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 12:29AMDubai Yesterday’s bombing of Al Arabiya’s Baghdad office brought the death toll of the channel’s employees to 15 since the start of the war in Iraq in 2003.