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Archive for September, 2011

Sep 10th, 2011

Summary: Today in history (on the Immelman for Congress website). … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 10, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that Americans approached the ninth anniversary of 9/11 with a lower-than-usual sense that the country was any safer than it was before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, with just 48 percent of Americans saying the country was more secure than it was before the terrorist attack, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll.


Sep 9th, 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 9, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that a U.S. missile strike in Pakistan’s North Waziristan region killed five alleged militants in northwestern Pakistan, the fourth such attack on suspected insurgent targets there in 24 hours.


Sep 8th, 2011

Summary: Today in history (on the Immelman for Congress website). … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 8, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that an Iraqi soldier sprayed gunfire at American troops guarding one of their commanders as he visited an Iraqi military base, killing two and wounding nine.


Sep 7th, 2011

Summary: Today in history (on the Immelman for Congress website). … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 7, 2010, Aubrey Immelman provided his weekly report of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.


Sep 6th, 2011

Summary: Today in history (on the Immelman for Congress website). … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 6, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that the number of foreign troops killed in Afghanistan up to that point in 2010 had reached at least 500, compared with 521 in all of 2009.


Sep 5th, 2011

Summary: Today in history (on the Immelman for Congress website). … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 5, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that Iran allegedly was paying Taliban fighters $1,000 for each U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan, according to a report in the London Sunday Times.


Sep 4th, 2011

Summary: Today in history (on the Immelman for Congress website). … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 4, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that the death toll from a Pakistani Taliban suicide attack on a Shiite Muslim procession rose to 65 as critically wounded people died in hospitals, while a suspected U.S. missile strike killed seven insurgents.


Sep 3rd, 2011

Summary: Today in history (on the Immelman for Congress website). … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 3, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, on a visit to Camp Nathan Smith, headquarters for U.S. operations in Kandahar, Afghanistan, said the likelihood of direct U.S. military engagement in Pakistan was very low but that “unfortunately, there are going to be more tough days ahead” in Afghanistan.


Sep 2nd, 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 2, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that about $155 million in deposits had been withdrawn from Afghanistan’s largest bank in just two days, spurring fresh concerns among U.S. and Afghan officials that a financial panic could spread through the country and derail the U.S. war effort.


Sep 1st, 2011

Summary: Today in history (on the Immelman for Congress website). … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 1, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that a spike in bloodshed in Afghanistan claimed the lives of 19 U.S. service members in just four days, elevating the U.S. death toll for August 2010 to 55, with a total of 76 fatalities for NATO forces.