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Archive for October, 2011

Oct 21st, 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 October 21, 2010, Aubrey Immelman provided his weekly report of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.


Oct 20th, 2011

Summary: Former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi was captured and killed near his home town of Sirte. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 20, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that an internal investigation by the Central Intelligence Agency documented a litany of intelligence breakdowns leading to the Dec. 30, 2009 suicide attack in Afghanistan by Jordanian double agent Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi that killed seven CIA employees.


Oct 19th, 2011

Summary: Dateline October 19, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 19, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that the Center for Public Integrity revealed that Rep. Michelle Bachmann wrote behind-the-scenes letters requesting stimulus funds from the federal government, even while publicly opposing the economic stimulus package.


Oct 18th, 2011

Summary: Dateline October 18, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 18, 2010, Aubrey Immelman announced an informal meet-and-greet around the issue of higher education on behalf of Independent candidate for Minnesota governor, Tom Horner, at the College of Saint Benedict in St. Joseph, Minn.


Oct 17th, 2011

Summary: Dateline October 17, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 17, 2010, Aubrey Immelman noted that the day marked the second anniversary of U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann’s infamous Oct. 17, 2008 appearance on MSNBC’s “Hardball” with Chris Matthews, which propelled her into the national spotlight when she called for a media investigation reminiscent of McCarthy-era witch hunts to “find out [which members of Congress] are pro-America or anti-America.”


Oct 16th, 2011

Summary: Dateline October 16, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 16, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that U.S. law enforcement authorities received two separate warnings that an American businessman was plotting a terrorist attack in Mumbai, India, with the Pakistani extremist group Lashkar-e-Taiba.


Oct 15th, 2011

Summary: Dateline October 15, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 15, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that unmanned U.S. aircraft launched two missile strikes in a Pakistani tribal region along the Afghan border, killing nine people in a continuing escalation of drone strikes targeting leaders of the Taliban insurgency.


Oct 14th, 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 October 14, 2010, Aubrey Immelman provided his weekly report of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.



Summary: U.S. officials say they are certain the bizarre assassination plot against the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States, Adel Jubeir, was real; however, some analysts say it is unlikely the Iranian government would be involved in such a tangled plot. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 13, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made a bold show of strength in Lebanon, vowing before thousands of Hezbollah supporters in Beirut that U.S. and Israeli power in the Middle East would soon be eclipsed.



Summary: Attacks aimed at Iraqi police, including two in which assailants slammed explosives-packed cars into police stations, killed 25 people and maimed dozens in the worst violence in Baghdad since August 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 12, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that members of Afghanistan’s new peace council said releasing Taliban figures detained at Guantanamo Bay and scratching scores of others off the U.N. sanctions list would jump-start peace talks aimed at ending the then 9-year-old war.