Tag: the toll
member name: Dave McGill
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June 01, 2008 08:25 PM EDT --
You generally hear of multiple demons in the minds of those who are severely tormented, but there was only one ghost haunting Brian Rand as he held the rifle in his hands. He was sitting in a picturesque . . .
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June 08, 2008 06:35 PM EDT --
During a week that has seen its news dominated by economic developments, violence has seemed to be on the increase in Iraq, while the region's political leaders have been maintaining an active, if . . .
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June 29, 2008 04:12 PM EDT --
Iran fired off the latest salvo in The Great Jawbone War yesterday, saying it might block the oil lanes in the Persian Gulf if attacked. Given the fact that the Strait of Hormuz, the only exit from the . . .
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July 06, 2008 04:41 PM EDT --
For the first time in the 117 weekly publications of The Toll, the Department of Defense released no obituaries from the war in Iraq last week.
However, bomb attacks today left one as-yet-unidentified . . .
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December 23, 2007 03:14 PM EST --
Some might say that it's one too many, especially during the holiday season, but last week's single combat death was the lowest casualty count ever reported on The Toll , continuing a trend that . . .
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February 10, 2008 06:28 PM EST --
The snipers were hunkered down in what had already been a lengthy mission in Jarf Sakhr, 35 miles southwest of Baghdad. The team was observing a group of suspected insurgents situated about 500 feet away. . . .
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March 02, 2008 05:55 PM EST --
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad received a red carpet welcome in Baghdad today, according to the L.A. Times website.
Both he and his Iraqi counterpart took the occasion, initially, to blast an . . .
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March 09, 2008 10:07 PM EDT --
According to an Associated Press Report today, "dozens of troops in Iraq fell sick" at bases using water supplied by a company that was, at the time, a subsidiary of Halliburton.
The report . . .
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March 16, 2008 10:08 PM EDT --
The news out of the Middle East has been hot and heavy during this, the final week of year five in the Iraq war.
And it comes at a time when interest in the war is waning, according to a survey by . . .
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April 27, 2008 03:55 PM EDT --
More evidence has now been uncovered regarding this Republican administration's continuing suppression and distortion of the news. In the most recent case, a series of e-mails has revealed that the . . .
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May 18, 2008 03:16 PM EDT --
One month after being feted at the White House as a member of a group of veterans dubbed the "Wounded Warriors," Travis Twiggs took his brother on a wild ride in Arizona reminiscent of the tragic . . .
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June 15, 2008 02:10 PM EDT --
Steven McDowell will never forget this Father's Day. Either will 12-year old Joshua McDowell. They are both mourning the recent death of Steven's only son and Joshua's dad, Army Sgt. 1 st . . .
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July 13, 2008 04:34 PM EDT --
The week offered evidence aplenty that, as violence trends upward in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq is nearing its final chapter. These events follow on the heels of, but are not necessarily related to, . . .
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July 20, 2008 08:42 PM EDT --
A high level meeting was held in Geneva between representatives from Iran, the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany, but little was accomplished. Today's press reports indicate . . .
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July 27, 2008 05:08 PM EDT --
One M-RAP, bomb-resistant vehicle - $1 million.
Lifelong treatment for post traumatic stress disorder - $800 thousand.
Invasion and occupation of a foreign country - priceless.
Actually, it looks . . .
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October 21, 2007 03:50 PM EDT --
April 14 th , 2004, was a pleasantly mild day in Karabilah, Iraq, near the Syrian border. The dog days of summer were yet to come. A squad attached to the First Marine Division was conducting a routine . . .
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January 06, 2008 05:08 PM EST --
Hillary Clinton said, during yesterday's debate, that even December's low toll of 23 U.S. deaths in Iraq was not acceptable, given the failure of the surge to achieve its main objectives involving . . .
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January 20, 2008 07:15 PM EST --
As most of America tries to digest the significance, if any, of yesterday's elections and turns its attention today to the NFL playoffs, there are at least six families who will be otherwise involved. . . .
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January 27, 2008 02:27 PM EST --
With all the news swirling around the presidential campaign, the economy and the forthcoming Super Bowl, the news out of Iraq seems to have taken a back seat in the vehicle we call our consciousness. . . .
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May 05, 2008 04:06 AM EDT --
Ali was riding in the back seat of his dad's car as it entered Baghdad's Nisoor Square. Like any ten-year old he was perhaps thinking of the sweets he might get for being a good boy. If . . .
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