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Sep 14th, 2010

Summary: Weekly report of U.S. military deaths in Operation New Dawn (Iraq war) and Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan war), compiled from U.S. Department of Defense News Releases. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 14, 2009, Aubrey Immelman reported that Osama bin Laden released a new tape in which he cited U.S. support for Israel as the reason for the attack of 9/11, saying, “the cause of our disagreement with you is your support to your Israeli allies who occupy our land of Palestine.”


Sep 7th, 2010

Summary: Weekly report of U.S. military deaths in Operation New Dawn (Iraq war) and Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan war), compiled from U.S. Department of Defense News Releases. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 7, 2009, Aubrey Immelman reported that suicide attackers struck near a Shiite mosque north of Baghdad and a checkpoint west of the Iraqi capital as bombings killed at least 17 people nationwide.


Aug 31st, 2010

Summary: Weekly report of U.S. military deaths in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan), compiled from U.S. Department of Defense News Releases. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on August 31, 2009, Aubrey Immelman featured Bill Prendergast’s debunking of Rep. Michele Bachmann’s false claim that she had no interest in running for political office prior to being “called by God” to run for the Minnesota State Senate in 2000.


Aug 24th, 2010

Summary: Weekly report of U.S. military deaths in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan), compiled from U.S. Department of Defense News Releases. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on August 24, 2009 Aubrey Immelman reported that Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman urged President Barack Obama to postpone many of his health care reform initiatives because of the economic downturn.


Aug 10th, 2010

Summary: Weekly report of U.S. military deaths in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan), compiled from U.S. Department of Defense News Releases. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on August 10, 2009 Aubrey Immelman released the results of a psychological assessment of former U.S. vice president Dick Cheney, conducted at the Unit for the Study of Personality in Politics. The key finding of the study was that Vice President Cheney’s most prominent personality patterns (or traits) are high levels of Conscientiousness and Dominance. The study shed light on the extraordinary degree of power and influence that Vice President Cheney exercised in the Bush administration and the former vice president’s apparent reluctance to follow the lead of former President George W. Bush to depart from the political arena upon completing his term of office.


Jul 20th, 2010

Summary: Weekly report of U.S. military deaths in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan), compiled from U.S. Department of Defense News Releases. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on July 20, 2009 Aubrey Immelman reported that U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann’s outlandish behavior, uninformed, misleading, and unsubstantiated comments, and inability to craft viable public policy may have reached critical mass, crossing the tipping point beyond which Minnesota media could no longer tune out the insanity.


Jul 13th, 2010

Summary: Weekly report of U.S. military deaths in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan), compiled from U.S. Department of Defense News Releases. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on July 13, 2009 Aubrey Immelman reported that congressional Democrats were demanding an investigation over disclosures that a secret CIA program to capture or kill al-Qaida leaders was concealed from Congress for eight years, perhaps at the behest of former Vice President Dick Cheney.


Jun 29th, 2010

Summary: Weekly report of U.S. military deaths in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan), compiled from U.S. Department of Defense News Releases. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on June 29, 2009 Aubrey Immelman reported that the security situation in Iraq remained fragile and uncertain as the U.S. handed over security to Iraqi forces in accordance with the Bush administration’s status-of-forces agreement with Iraq.


Jun 22nd, 2010

Summary: Weekly report of U.S. military deaths in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan), compiled from U.S. Department of Defense News Releases. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on June 22, 2009 Aubrey Immelman provided a weekly summary of security incidents in Iraq and Afghanistan.


Jun 15th, 2010

Summary: Weekly report of U.S. military deaths in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan), compiled from U.S. Department of Defense News Releases. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on June 15, 2009 Aubrey Immelman reported that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown authorized an inquiry into the Iraq war, but defied requests from bereaved families and campaigners to hold sessions in public.