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Archive for September, 2011

Sep 30th, 2011

Summary: Weekly report of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, compiled from U.S. Department of Defense news releases and iCasualties.org. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 30, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that Pakistan blocked a vital supply route for U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan in apparent retaliation for an alleged cross-border helicopter strike by the coalition that killed three Pakistani frontier troops.


Sep 29th, 2011

Summary: Dateline September 29, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 29, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad had come under an intensifying barrage of rocket attacks in recent weeks, with a senior American military commander suggesting that Iranian-backed militias were behind the attacks in an effort to influence the formation of a new Iraqi government.


Sep 28th, 2011

Summary: Dateline September 28, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 28, 2010, Aubrey Immelman provided his weekly report of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.


Sep 27th, 2011

Summary: Dateline September 27, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 27, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that a U.S. soldier, Army Spc. Neftaly Platero, had been taken in custody in connection with the shooting deaths of two fellow service members, Spc. John Carrillo Jr. and Pfc. Gebrah P. Noonan, in Fallujah, Iraq.



Summary: An Afghan employee of the U.S. government opened fire inside a CIA office in Kabul, killing an American and injuring another in the second major breach of embassy security in two weeks. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 26, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that Iranian forces crossed into neighboring Iraq and killed 30 fighters from a Kurdistan Workers Party-linked group it said was involved in the previous week’s bombing of a military parade in Mahabad, situated in Iran’s northwestern Kurdish region, which killed 12 women and children.


Sep 25th, 2011

Summary: Dateline September 25, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 25, 2010, Aubrey Immelman featured the five-member “Red team,” which is rethinking the war in Afghanistan and questioning some of the basic assumptions behind the effort to clean up corruption and gain the upper hand over the Taliban.


Sep 24th, 2011

Summary: Dateline September 24, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 24, 2010, Aubrey Immelman featured NBC News’ Voter Confidence Index (VCI), a measure of the political climate, which uses a combination of three questions commonly asked in national polls: the president’s job approval rating, the direction of the country (right track / wrong track), and the generic congressional ballot.


Sep 23rd, 2011

Summary: Weekly report of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, compiled from U.S. Department of Defense news releases and iCasualties.org. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 23, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that the U.S. and several European delegations walked out of the U.N. speech of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after he said most people believe the U.S. government was behind the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in order to assure Israel’s survival.


Sep 22nd, 2011

Summary: Dateline September 22, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 21, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that according to three of America’s top counterterrorism officials, terror groups were increasingly moving away from planning complex 9/11-style attacks involving months of planning and a large group of participants, making it more difficult to detect and disrupt plots against the United States.


Sep 21st, 2011

Summary: Today in history (on the Immelman for Congress website). … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 21, 2010, Aubrey Immelman provided his weekly report of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.